PotionMistress
Sr Member
I’m in the process of customizing an action figure and one of the things that I want to change is the height of the figure.
Since I am aiming at the miniature standard, 1 in = 1 ft (1:12) ratio, I want my female figure to be approximately 5.5” high. The best figure I could find for the project in all other respects is actually almost 6 ¾” tall (which would make her a way too tall 6.5 ft female), I need to shorten the legs on this.
I’ve looked through this forum and throughout the action figure tutorials on the web and have only found one reference to shortening a figure, It just said to cut out some of the thigh and/or shin areas of the figure and glue back together, which is rather vague. If I were to cut out sections of the legs on this figure, would just gluing those pieces together be sturdy enough to ‘play’ with it afterwards?
Has anyone done something like this to shorten a figure to make it more realistic with any success? I just thought I'd ask about this before I go ahead and 'disfigure' the figure.:confused
Since I am aiming at the miniature standard, 1 in = 1 ft (1:12) ratio, I want my female figure to be approximately 5.5” high. The best figure I could find for the project in all other respects is actually almost 6 ¾” tall (which would make her a way too tall 6.5 ft female), I need to shorten the legs on this.
I’ve looked through this forum and throughout the action figure tutorials on the web and have only found one reference to shortening a figure, It just said to cut out some of the thigh and/or shin areas of the figure and glue back together, which is rather vague. If I were to cut out sections of the legs on this figure, would just gluing those pieces together be sturdy enough to ‘play’ with it afterwards?
Has anyone done something like this to shorten a figure to make it more realistic with any success? I just thought I'd ask about this before I go ahead and 'disfigure' the figure.:confused
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