I posted this on fwoosh back before I got greenlit to return here. I've tweaked him by pulling his sashbelt up over the Deep Six belt and he looks much better. I've since bashed Setam onto a Rex body, but haven't done anything with Zolm yet. I'll likely use Dastan as Sinbad and make him an avatar of the Eternal Champion along with Elric, Hawkman, and Ash Williams.
I'm sure I'll get the Target exclusive, but I'll have to wait until I figure out what head I want to put on him because - in a line with only 4 figs in it - I sure as hell ain't gonna have two of them be the same dude.
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I monkeyed with Dastan tonight, bashing him onto a RoC Deep Six fig to get the better artic. I chose D6 specifically for the black bodysuit and the lankiness likely fitting into the Dastan fig's bits better. The fig came out a bit longer in the torso than I would've preferred, but it's an artifact of the long D6 abdomen as I've got the Dastan chest pretty much as far down as it can go without interfering with the shoulder pegs fitting in the chest. He's now about half a head taller than he was and Joes are, about equal with an IM fig, and about half a head shorter than MU Piledriver.
I cut the Dastan fig across the belly between the first and second 'belts' as that's about where a Joe's moob joint cuts. The bottom pair of belts I hollowed out into a ring to slip onto the D6 abdomen, while Dasty's sash belt is already a separate piece that fits D6 no problem at all. Then I cut the chest in two to drill out the T- socket for the plug coming up out of D6's abdomen, and a crater at the bottom of Dasty's chest to fit the D6 'abdomen ball'. I cut backwards at the seam where the back of the neck meets the vest, instead of cutting the neck in two and possibly ruining the neck socket joint. It also provides a fitting surface to ensure I get the two halves back together properly instead of being just a hair off each other. Hopefully the pic says it better than my words do.
Lastly, I gave his sword an MU Torch/Iron Fist flame effect, and an old-ass dollhouse rug acces[code][/code]sory as a flying carpet. I think I'm gonna try to glue it to a place of styrene, then put some black cloth on the bottom of it all, with maybe a rigged-up foot peg sticking up thru the top for him to stand and fly on properly.
