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 Post subject: Some Hiya DC bashes
PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:53 pm 
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I like the idea of the newest hiya DC injustice figures. But the execution is off. Their scale is weird, heads and hands tiny for action figures, and the leg articulation made a straight standing pose near impossible.

There are exceptions. The Flash is great. I really only had to trim down his armpits to allow better range of motion. Red Hood is a little flimsy feeing but looks great. Superman I tried to make do at first with a Chris Reeves head and no other mods but he fell short.

So as more preorders started to roll in, I started to look for ways to fix. First was Wonder Woman. The design was off but the torso really is the best I’ve seen in scale. So I experimented and found that the later Marvel U female legs fit her without mods. MU Shanna uppers and Captain Marvel lowers did the trick

Swapped in some HACKS arms (shoulder joint transplant) and a new head and was ready to roll. Similar approach to Supergirl. Then a new head and Marvel U legs on Superman as well (he got a full repaint also). And that got me to here. (Batman and Robin have no hiya parts)ImageImageImage

Presently working on Harley Quinn with same concept (but different parts). Her hip joints are different. I used Ms marvel type upper legs, and had to dremel the socket to fit

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I have more figs coming so I expect this will be my approach for now. Hybrid figures better than hiya but with sculpts better than I could manage without hiya




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 Post subject: Re: Some Hiya DC bashes
PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:55 pm 
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Oh. And this happened:

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 Post subject: Re: Some Hiya DC bashes
PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 11:02 pm 
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:27 am 
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I saw that WW in the gallery a couple days ago, best female figure 2019!

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 Post subject: Re: Some Hiya DC bashes
PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:34 am 
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Awesome!
I am planning something similar with my Wonder Woman.
What is the shoulder joint transplant?
Also would HACKS legs fit?
I ordered direct from Hiya but the package never arrived nor do I know if one was sent. In any case I filed a claim with Paypal then Hiya refunded me.
Luckily Gamestop is having a 25% off action figure sale. I ordered WW, Flash, & Supergirl from them. So I am still waiting on mine.


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 Post subject: Re: Some Hiya DC bashes
PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:28 am 
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Amazon has been great on getting the hiya stuff to me for whatever that is worth.

For the shoulders, I haven’t a found any other lines where the peg fits as well as hiya (also for reference you can boil and pop most of the joints). Anyway the hiya arms are weird and I wanted HACKS arms on WW. So I slice the injected molded peg the secures then disc joint to the arm itself on both the hiya and donor arms. Put the HACKS arm onto the hiya disc and carefully glued. It also took some mods to peg from the HACKS arm to fit the disc. Did that make sense?

I usually use that process for making joe arms HACKS compatible. This is the first time I’ve done it the other way.

HACKS thighs would take some work. They are harder plastic AND in two pieces. The hip ball joints on the hiya figures are pretty big. I did try HACKS legs first but found it very unlikely to succeed. HACKS lower legs can be swapped on the marvel thighs though

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:22 pm 
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