G.I. Joe Classified Series: The Chatty Pointless Thread & Performance Art

[Damien]

and I'm far better now than I used to be, but getting to a healthy equilibrium between overly tolerant and going scorched-earth eludes me.

Well, if it helps, my wife's advice to me was: "Have you tried just being less of a prick?"

Touche', my love. And to answer the question... no. I have not tried that.

 

[Ru1977]

Star Wars had a stream, in the Marvel threads they're speculating when the next Marvel one will be (likely next week), but how about the Classified one? Maybe next week as well?

 

[vicious]

I see some "old" posts about the old-style hips being bad, as I always say, lightly sand those little ball nubs! It's like five minutes work. Just don't overdo it, particularly on the balls on the opposite ends of the peg or your figure will do the splits. YMMV.

 

[docsilence]

I see some "old" posts about the old-style hips being bad, as I always say, lightly sand those little ball nubs! It's like five minutes work. Just don't overdo it, particularly on the balls on the opposite ends of the peg or your figure will do the splits. YMMV.

Do the hips boil off pretty easily? I'm always anxious dismantling more than head/neck stuff.

 

[AceofKnaves]

Do the hips boil off pretty easily?

VERY easily. A little heat and off the legs come.
It’s been a long time since I had to sand/oil Classified hips, but the work always wound up being successful, or quite annoying to have to do.

 

[vicious]

Do the hips boil off pretty easily? I'm always anxious dismantling more than head/neck stuff.

Yeah I personally like to rotate the legs a bit on the ball joint, because I find it more difficult from an A stance. What works for me is rotating the leg at the hip so the ball joint is visible facing upwards/frontwards, and then pry it off.

And I'm so glad to not do these fixes, either. PVC plastic and shock oil are a terrible combination; so sanding is the best method, but yeah it sucks, luckily out of maybe 10 figures I only messed up one hip joint. Fixed just with some thin superglue layers.

 

[TheGillMan]

I see some "old" posts about the old-style hips being bad, as I always say, lightly sand those little ball nubs! It's like five minutes work. Just don't overdo it, particularly on the balls on the opposite ends of the peg or your figure will do the splits. YMMV.

Why am I not surprised to find someone talking about messing with balls in this thread?