New Head Project

The next phase of the project.

The tiny wire bits are left over from when I cut the wire mesh to make this cage for the giant scorpion.  This is why I save everything hobby related, it gets used eventually.  Just make sure it stays organized.

To install a new head, make a mark where the center of the neck will be.

Next use a tiny drill to drill a tiny hole in the neck.

Finally use a drill bit almost but not quite as big as the wire insert you will use in the next phase.

Put a dab of super glue on the neck hole and using a pair of needlenose pliers grab the wire and push it 1/2 way into the hole.  This wire is from the mesh I used for my scorpion cage a while back.

Here is the glue I use, a little bit more flexible than most super glues which tend to be still or brittle.  When you run out, pull the bottom out of the container and use the rest from the tube inside.  

A while back I made this giant scorpion cage and I kept the off cuts from the wire.  Save all your hobby stuff and keep them well marked so you can find them again.  I have used these off cuts for several projects now including this one.

Junkanoo and Figure Conversion

Some of my favorite figures of all time, MPC 60mm Ring Hands.

Sadly the metallic plastic ones often go brittle.  But the heads usually stay okay.

So after a quick buzz cut, there is suddenly neck space available for the MPC head.

But I don't like to waste the old heads.  So I cut the legs off of a cheapo plastic figure like the one pictured and put them on the Buzz Lightyear head.  Now he is a guy in costume for the Junknaoo festival as seen in James Bond Thunderball.  I just add a base and he is ready to go party.

Here is a previous Buzz Lightyear with a new head that has been repainted in army men colors.

Ready to begin surgery.
 

Figure Conversion in Two Scales

Here is the war correspondent in the rear with the gear.

The original solider on the brown horse and the original civilian in the seat, next to the converted soldier.  Converted civilian on the black horse.

The sword makes a good substitute for a whip.

Buzz Lightyear from Dollar Tree.

Buzz got his head buzzed off.
 

Alice and Her House

 A new Disney Doorables set.

I got four of them a while back but now there seems to be a few more of them.

I think they are based on some cartoon I never saw and likely never will watch.

As part of my American Cities Project I am building Disneyland, I used to live right down the street from there and it was always fun to go there before they started allowing men with moustashes to dress as princesses.

So the Doorables are going to be use as part of my Toontown section.

My Disneyland is not representative of any specific year, as I have mixed and matched rides and attractions to fit what I like and what is available as models.

Disneyland has people dress up as characters and walk around the park and I will use this figure as one of them.  The are often just like this a caricature of a real person.

Here Alice is with two 1/72nd scale figures, a pretty good size.  She and the other Doorable figures will likely also participate in my James Bond Junkanoo parade also.

The cardboard background is pretty good to, so I saved it.

Not sure how I will deploy the background but it was too good to toss out.

It might get used just like it was in the package as background for this figure and building.
 

Mickey

My second Disney beach building from Dollar General.  I have been getting beach related buildings from Dollar Tree the last couple years and they will fit in well together.

This set was the better of the two by far.

Mickey in his hang loose pose.

He will likely end up as a statue in Disneyland.

Back is blank on this building too, I am thinking of placing the two buildings back to back as a boys and girls changing rooms for the beach.
 

Minnie

Mister Dollar had a general store and now it's the Dollar General chain of stores all over the Southern USA.  It's a general store and they sell a little bit of everything.  Three different of these things were on sale for buy one get one free so I picked up an Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse version.

Since Minnie is in a yoga pose and yoga is an Eastern religion, she got tossed in the trash, along with the rather large lawn chair.

As part of my program to build a number of cities I am building Disneyland, mostly from the 1950s but with a few of the modern elements.  I am also doing "beach" and surfing as part of the American cities.  In addition to that there is a Batman episode, where The Joker tries to take over the surfers and he and Batman have it out on the beach, so these little beach themed buildings will come in handy.

Lazy or cheap?  The backside is plain.  Not sure if I will add doors or so something else.

It comes with this little poorly painted sign, I think I will make it an advertisement for for beverages or ice cream in Disneyland.  While I hate what Disney has become I used to live only a few miles away and had annual passes and everything, my wife even went there on opening day.  So I honor it for what it was under Walt Disney, not what it has become.
 

Bond in Toon Town.

The interior of the house has a little pin on the floor.

The bottom of the figure has a corresponding hole in it to site the figure near the door.

It's a nice Toon Town looking building.

The roof has locating pins for snapping similar buildings on the roof.  I won't likely be doing that.

James Bond has a  rather dynamic look through the door.

Probably won't be in Disneyland.  The buildings are pretty good for Toon Town, although I will likely repaint them or at least do more detail painting.

The eyes on the figures are well done, I don't know how they get the great sparkly effect.
 

Secret Revealed

This is the figure I got in the secret box.

It is from the Rapunzel movie, which I never saw.

The super size head would seem to indicate this may not be a line of 1/72nd scale figures that I will want to buy very many of to replace the other troops.  However, I think I will use them as a sort of street puppet Muppet kind of performer in my Disneyland Toon Town.  Note the body size is not too big compared to a James Bond figure.  The head could be easily manipulated I think, by a puppeteer inside the figure.

This is the little house in the set.

The "hair" on the right side is a plug in piece.

Apparently the deal is you put the figure inside the house and then open the door to reveal the figure.  It is supposed to be a lot of fun for little girls.  I was not all that amused.

The back side of the figure, each little house has an open back like a traditional play house.