Budget Simple Upgrades Making One Good Gandalf The (off)White Out Of Two Lousy Ones.

Due to my LOTR avalanche I've had access to a few figures in my collection that needed the odd mod and repair. I've always had two rather rubbish GTW figures in my display but saw merits in different parts of them, thinking one good one is better tan two lousy ones (why I was displaying two was just to have the 'Ravenclaw' look as well). I like a lot of the DID figure but those hands and that hs had to go! The TB hs is actually okay and even looks like Ian Mckellen, a bit cartoony and not like Asmus's new stuff but good enough for me. I found some spare SSC senator Palpatine old man hands that work too. I had to cut and heavily trim back/down the detailed tabard from the TB figure after prying it off the body but I like the result. I've left everything yellowed (from age/smoke/sun etc..) a) because it shows off the contrasting fine details of the patterns far better this way and b) because I noticed Asmus are doing the same with their brand new preorder GTW since they're taking another crack at him after many lessons learnt over the years.

TOYBIIZ FIGURE



DID FIGURE



After I'd done all the trimming as I hadn't planned to make a thread of this quick build initially.

































I have some GTG SSC hands somewhere that might look better but these will do for now.









Ravenclaw cloak/poncho











Tabard needed quite a bit of work.

















DOING THE SPEECH TO GRIMA WORMTOUNGE

Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm. wrote:

Full metal Glamdring sword.

He worked out very well. I'm glad you upgraded to the combined version. And I see what you mean about the resemblance -- it's unmistakable.

GubernatorFan wrote:He worked out very well. I'm glad you upgraded to the combined version. And I see what you mean about the resemblance -- it's unmistakable.

Cheers! Funnily enough I choose to use my ToyBiz Aragorn hs for my custom bash of him too, as I prefer it over others I own; I guess they had decent sculptors for back then especially at the £15 price point for a complete NIB 12" figure!

That’s some nice upgrades. He looks significantly better.

Stryker2011 wrote:That’s some nice upgrades. He looks significantly better.

Cheers! A few of the ladies need upgrades too but it's a matter of tracking head sculpts that are super rare.