Premier Toys Wasteland Gladiator 1/6th figure

PopGimmicks said:

Well, mine has finally arrived home after an endless wait in customs. Now as soon as I have time I'll have to work on it, starting with the body swap for sure. @Asta , sorry to bother you but I have a doubt in this regard and maybe you can help me. What peg did you use to connect the head to the JX Toys S01 body? The peg that comes with the figure is too long so the head sits too high, and the one that comes with the S01 is too big to fit on the head connector. Have you modified the latter or have you used another system? Thanks!

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I didn't use a peg. I put white tack inside the sculpt and pressed it down until it looked the right height.

Asta said:

I didn't use a peg. I put white tack inside the sculpt and pressed it down until it looked the right height.

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Great, it's a good option. Thank you very much for your help!

Asta said:

I didn't use a peg. I put white tack inside the sculpt and pressed it down until it looked the right height.

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By the way, my shotgun came like yours and it opens by itself, although at least the shells fit fine in the barrels. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't happen in all the figures but, of all the questionable things that it has, possibly the one I hate the most is they've used bad velcro on the pants. We are in the year 2022, and they're still using velcro that barely holds together for a few moments. Amazing...

PopGimmicks said:

By the way, my shotgun came like yours and it opens by itself, although at least the shells fit fine in the barrels. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't happen in all the figures but, of all the questionable things that it has, possibly the one I hate the most is they've used bad velcro on the pants. We are in the year 2022, and they're still using velcro that barely holds together for a few moments. Amazing...

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That was probably the only issue my figure didn't have.

The shotgun is a copy of Sideshows Ash Evil Dead figure with the handle reworked

I will keep the figure until Dark Toys one comes out, and will sell spare parts or the full figure. Who knows

Well I'm late to the party but here's my Wasteland Gladiator. In general the figure has been a disappointment. Beyond all the inaccuracies and the small head with doubtful likeness, my shotgun is one of those that keeps popping open on its own, one of the leg brace straps broke just by touching it, the magnet of one of the belt bags suddenly released, and if you're not careful when unzipping your jacket, the zipper can come off completely. For a moment it can seem like the figure is going to collapse in your hands, and it's exasperating. However, I think that the body swapping is the key to start working with it and try to achieve something passable.








So some things I've done are:

• Swap the body for a JX Toys S01 which offers a good overall result, as @Asta has shown. Out of curiosity I've also tried the ZC Toys S005 body. In case someone has wondered if it could work as an alternative to the Ganghood 2.0 or the JX Toys S01, I would say no. This body is nice and also cheaper than these two, but I've discarded it because the neck is wider and, together with the tiny head, it makes a horrible "bull's neck" effect. In addition, the skin tone doesn't math the headsculpt at all. Before swapping the body I would recommend to remove the leg brace. It may sound a bit risky, but it's not difficult and, once it's done, it will allow you to work more comfortably and quickly with the pants and boots. Basically, the leg brace is attached to the top of the boot with a strip of glue. I've heated the area with a hair dryer, and then I've gently pushed up along the glued area with the tip of a cutter, until the piece separated from the boot. A little metallic paint remained on the boot when the piece came off, but this can be easily fixed by cleaning or painting over it. I've left it like this, because you don't need to glue it down to pose the figure, and the piece can be manually snapped into place and holds up pretty well. In any case, it can be re-attached with superglue or, even better, with non-definitive adhesives such as double-sided tape or gluedots.
  
  
• Dye the shotgun holster, its straps and the knife sheath with "TRG Penetrating Dye". I've applied several layers until I get an acceptable result, but now the color is darker than the other straps and belts, although depending on the light it does not look totally black either. I'll probably apply some drybrushing to it at some point.
  
  
• Peel off and repositioning the holster straps. I've made a silly miscalculation that forced me to peel them off again, so now I have a holster with "battle damaged straps".
  
  
• Use a touched up padding shorts to try to make the pants fit better in the hip and thigh areas. Since the velcro on the pants barely stayed closed even before adding the padding, I've reinforced this closure on the inside with a horizontal strip of duct tape along the entire front.
  
  
• Add metallic mini-buttons on the belt bags, on top of the painted buttons.

Other pending things that I will do at some point are:

• Shape the lapels of the jacket.
• Change hands.
• Add all the accessories.
• Apply weathering in general.
• etc.

Thank you @Asta for all the very helpful tests you have done with this figure, and the questions you've answered me.

kam veitch said:

The shotgun is a copy of Sideshows Ash Evil Dead figure with the handle reworked

I will keep the figure until Dark Toys one comes out, and will sell spare parts or the full figure. Who knows

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My first impulse was to throw it away, but selling it is a better and more reasonable option, no doubt!

After messing with this for a few days I'm pretty happy with it, changed the pad under the shoulder pad, binoculars and the metal loop on the spanner, also did some glueing down on the jacket so it sat more open, I ended up finding the perfect body ! The woo toys Bruce Banner body is perfect ! I believe it's a recast of the hot toys Han solo body, the fully sculpted one, it alo almost perfectly matches the skin tone of the head I have from FRWL. Link to the body 1/6 Scale Toy Dr. Green - Male Base Body w/Padding | eBay also managed to get the boots off without breaking anything by heating them up and I just glued the hot toys ankle pegs into the boot so they still pop into the ankle socket and have full articulation

That replacement body definitely looks great. I'm waiting for a custom head to materialize, though. (OneSixthCustoms has a thread on one.)

That's looking really nice K.bowen! I especially like the slimmer fit on the cuffs of the jacket. It looks a bit more movie accurate in that regard, especially if you can work some creases and wrinkles into it. Do you mind me asking what replacement material you used under the shoulder pad?

cpoll36 said:

That's looking really nice K.bowen! I especially like the slimmer fit on the cuffs of the jacket. It looks a bit more movie accurate in that regard, especially if you can work some creases and wrinkles into it. Do you mind me asking what replacement material you used under the shoulder pad?

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I cut the shape for the under piece out of cardboard and cut a smaller version and glued that over it, then just cut up a black t-shirt, covered the whole piece and glued it on the inside part you don't see, I also used a thin amount of craft glue to glue it on the outside so it went into the grooves of the cardboard. shirt is fairly rough oh and the metal circles are just fingernail stud decorations. Sorry about the pics my camera is terrible

Wow! That's some great work and an innovative idea, particularly given that a custom artist would probably charge a fair bit to create one.

cpoll36 said:

Wow! That's some great work and an innovative idea, particularly given that a custom artist would probably charge a fair bit to create one.

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Thank you ! Also max is finished ! Just need to lower the head a smidge

Very nice!
Maybe the face isn't wide enough, but that might be the angle of the pic.

abake said:

Very nice!
Maybe the face isn't wide enough, but that might be the angle of the pic.

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It's definitely my very poor photo skills lol here's a proper photo that was taken of the head by the manufacturer

Great job, all around, K.bowen!

Will definitely save your steps for when I'm ready to tackle this figure.

I was cleaning up my figures and laid eyes on this disappoiting figure, which I abandoned after opening it. I want to give it a try and swap the body. What are the alternatives?

JX Toys S01 is proved to be fitting.
Ganghood 2.0?
Worldbox AT011?
Other brands/models?

dantes2501 said:

I was cleaning up my figures and laid eyes on this disappoiting figure, which I abandoned after opening it. I want to give it a try and swap the body. What are the alternatives?

JX Toys S01 is proved to be fitting.
Ganghood 2.0?
Worldbox AT011?
Other brands/models?

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I tried him on the Ganghood 2.0 first, then the JX S01 which I found to be a lot better.

Can't speak for any other alternatives.

Body wise he's pretty good now, but overall still a disappointing figure for numerous reasons.

It's pretty remarkable how much better their Immortan Joe turned out!

Asta said:

I tried him on the Ganghood 2.0 first, then the JX S01 which I found to be a lot better.

Can't speak for any other alternatives.

Body wise he's pretty good now, but overall still a disappointing figure for numerous reasons.

It's pretty remarkable how much better their Immortan Joe turned out!

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Sculpt being the first and more evident to me.

I decided to release the figure from its box, swap out the stock head sculpt with one of the Dark Toys heads and plop him on the stand.

What a HUGE difference. If it wasn't for that ugly exposed arm, I would have simply continued updating the rest of the figure using the stock body.

Now I'm looking forward to diving into the project.