Action Figure 12" Custom teaser

[thenammagazine]

So I stuck the shirt in a quart of water with about 1/4 cup of bleach...I don't know what I'm expecting, a magical instantaneous change in color but 15 minutes later nothing is happening. Is this supposed to take hours or do I need more bleach or what?

It should lighten up after a bit. Just make sure you rinse it too, otherwise the bleach will eat it.

 

[ProgMatinee]

Thanks, will do. Just gonna let it sit for a while.

 

[EVILFACE]

If nothing happens, just buy a white ebay shirt and dye it.

 

[ProgMatinee]

Do they sell a similar shirt to Duke's, with roll up sleeves? I'd like it to be as close as possible to be consistent with the others.

This probably sounds like shortcutting but I think its fun to use as many similar parts from the SSC figures as possible, sort of in tradition to how Hasbro reused torsos or legs (and in the early days even heads) for certain figures.

So I try to use the same boots, pants, shirts, etc if possible.

 

[BuddyGus]

Makes sense to me Prog. I was actually thinking the same thing the other day. Trying to put together gear ideas for a bash and I kept coming back to the SSC Joe items. It is kinda nostalgic I guess.

 

[ProgMatinee]

Thats not to say I want SSC to reuse every single item when they make a figure.

 

[BuddyGus]

Oh of course not. New items on their part means more diversity in our bashing.

 

[Kozin]

Gotta agree with you guys. Utilizing the SSC parts for customs is a great thing. I buy extras whenever I can. I haven't tried dying the Joe unis yet, but the Cobra ones dye well.

I really hope that they continue to give us up to date weapons as well as the classics (like the Viper and Stalker) so that we have the ability to keep it original if we wanted.

Can't wait for Rock 'n Roll to be parted out.

John

 

[BuddyGus]

Great to hear that the Cobra uniforms dye well. I was thinking of bashing a Jungle trooper.

When you dye the Cobra ones does it affect the Cobra logo at all??

 

[ProgMatinee]

well I tried dying the Duke shirt to a light blue. I had a pair of pants that I also dyed. The pants came out great, but as the Duke shirt was more of a yellow than a tan the shirt came out sorta greenish. Will have to keep looking.

I'll probably salvage the shirt by dying it a dark green and using it for some thing else.

 

[onethousandmasks]

Great to hear that the Cobra uniforms dye well. I was thinking of bashing a Jungle trooper.

When you dye the Cobra ones does it affect the Cobra logo at all??

The only problem with dyeing the Cobra uniform is that you can't dye the stitching. Cobra logo darkens little if using dark colors (ex. black, navy blue)

 

[BuddyGus]

Cool. I was going to try and dye a Desert Trooper uniform green. Guess the stitching shouldnt be a big deal.

 

[EVILFACE]

That might look ok with the tan stitching. . .

 

[Magpie 7]

You could very carefully paint the stitching, acrylics should stick.