Earlier this year discovered these Amazing 4 inch Action figures by JOYTOY.
What makes them Great (IMHO) is they can be taken apart. So from a customisers point of view, perfect base figure. Add also a HIGH level of articulation is included with these Action Figures too.
So decided as Hot Toys Snap Kit 4" and the HIYA 4" Colonial Marines have major fragile flaws, it would be Great to build some more robust Marines.
First off was Armour. Key the Torso and shins. Shoulders can be added later but these two are More important. Also as you can see Posability is Still kept.
So after some playing about and casting, I have resin clamp shell armour (M3 is clamshell anyway), so makes it Removable too.
The shins I opted to make use of the JoyToy ability to disassemble so the plan is swappable Shins.
So the figures can be shown in BDU"s or Geared up in Armour.
Anyway this is where I am at present.
Also started hand painting some of he JoyToy figures into USCM BDU camo similar to the film.
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Hand painted camo BDUs to 1/18th Joytoy figures. zzz 118 aliens uscm camo.jpg [ 89.74 KiB | Viewed 1090 times ] |
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Test fit of USCM armour on 1/18th Joytoy figure zzz 118 aliens armour test1.jpg [ 86.55 KiB | Viewed 1090 times ] |
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Test fit of 1/18th armour on JOYTOY Body zzz 118 aliens armour test.jpg [ 81.43 KiB | Viewed 1090 times ] |