Everyone has their particular struggles when it comes to 1/6 customizing....my 'nemesis', it would seem, is BOOTS.
It doesn't matter if they are of the footless or the foot-peg kind, somehow, something always ends up getting stuck or ruined somehow.
In this case, I was working on one of my custom Anakin figures, and I was trying to figure out which boots would work best. Because I'm using a COOmodel extra tall body for it, the Sideshow boots I'd been planning to use looked too short/small, so I thought I would try one of my Hot Toys Anakin's boots on it, just to see how it looked.
Well, the good news is that the HT boot looked great! The bad news is.... when I went to pull it off, the little ankle extender that comes as part of the COOmodel body got stuck inside!! I have tried all the tools that I have at hand to try to get it out, but no luck. All of the smaller pliers I have are for beadwork, and so are either quite smooth (and thus slip right off and don't get any grip) or are specifically for wire-cutting purposes, and thus I don't dare try to use them for this.
It's been several days and I'm starting get panicky... and while I *could* just leave the boots on the other figure (since I plan to get extra HT boots for it anyway), I would much prefer to have the 'original' boots back on the figure that they came with, if possible....
Does anyone have any suggestions of a type of pliers that would be thin enough to fit inside a 1/6 boot , but still have a wide enough 'grip' to pull out the ankle extender?
Thanks in advance!
It doesn't matter if they are of the footless or the foot-peg kind, somehow, something always ends up getting stuck or ruined somehow.
In this case, I was working on one of my custom Anakin figures, and I was trying to figure out which boots would work best. Because I'm using a COOmodel extra tall body for it, the Sideshow boots I'd been planning to use looked too short/small, so I thought I would try one of my Hot Toys Anakin's boots on it, just to see how it looked.
Well, the good news is that the HT boot looked great! The bad news is.... when I went to pull it off, the little ankle extender that comes as part of the COOmodel body got stuck inside!! I have tried all the tools that I have at hand to try to get it out, but no luck. All of the smaller pliers I have are for beadwork, and so are either quite smooth (and thus slip right off and don't get any grip) or are specifically for wire-cutting purposes, and thus I don't dare try to use them for this.
It's been several days and I'm starting get panicky... and while I *could* just leave the boots on the other figure (since I plan to get extra HT boots for it anyway), I would much prefer to have the 'original' boots back on the figure that they came with, if possible....
Does anyone have any suggestions of a type of pliers that would be thin enough to fit inside a 1/6 boot , but still have a wide enough 'grip' to pull out the ankle extender?
Thanks in advance!