Post by christ on Jul 3, 2012 10:20:27 GMT -5
And... here's my Leopaldan machinder refurb project.
About a year ago, as most RJ'ers know, a young lady showed up on the boards asking about repro parts for her brother's Popy Leo, purchased for him by their military Dad stationed in Japan in the early 80's.
Everyone was very helpful to her, but she pretty much gleaned that Leo was too valuable to keep- and then he showed up on ebay a couple of weeks later missing his fists, shin web shields, chest- pretty much everything. The only thing he had was most of his stickers, although they were curled due to what I believe she described as a "bathtub incident".
His fists are the boot D17's. I replaced their shoddy firing nubs with large, metal screws that I... screwed into the ends of the firing pins so they wouldn't shoot off at random times in the middle of the night, scaring everyone in the house.
Shin web shields, chest plate and tiny Spidy are of course, supplied by Kitsir.
The stickers are all original- I didn't have to recreate any- I just used crazy glue to tamp them down from their curled positions.
About a year ago, as most RJ'ers know, a young lady showed up on the boards asking about repro parts for her brother's Popy Leo, purchased for him by their military Dad stationed in Japan in the early 80's.
Everyone was very helpful to her, but she pretty much gleaned that Leo was too valuable to keep- and then he showed up on ebay a couple of weeks later missing his fists, shin web shields, chest- pretty much everything. The only thing he had was most of his stickers, although they were curled due to what I believe she described as a "bathtub incident".
His fists are the boot D17's. I replaced their shoddy firing nubs with large, metal screws that I... screwed into the ends of the firing pins so they wouldn't shoot off at random times in the middle of the night, scaring everyone in the house.
Shin web shields, chest plate and tiny Spidy are of course, supplied by Kitsir.
The stickers are all original- I didn't have to recreate any- I just used crazy glue to tamp them down from their curled positions.
