Has anyone put together a list of which skin tones of figures match up (roughly) with other figure lines? I'm mostly thinking recent "independent" figure lines (Marauder, Boss Fight, Chicken Fried toys, etc)? For example, which Boss Fight or Chicken Fried Toy blanks would I use with a light skin tone Marauder head? Also, those are the three figure lines I've bought, but I know there are other figure lines that have came out that share the same body construction. Which figure lines are interchangeable without having to drill/cut/glue body parts?

i'm of no help since i haven't handled very many premium figures. my experience is even heads in the same line (modern joes, starwars) won't necessarily swap with no mods. some heads "fit" but ride high or wobble too loose and won't hold a pose.

i just used (drbindy's?) hot glue technique on a head i drilled out to fit a larger neck ball . i needed to use it on a smaller neck . usually i just put a small heatshrink tube or two on a loose connecting head, but this one was about 1/4" too big and would of taken 10 pieces. the only drawback to using hotglue is waiting to get it hot for only a few seconds of use (yea i know!).

as far as skin tone i see a lot of people trying to match faces to arms and hands exactly.i see most people in real life whose face is a different color than their hands. sometimes slightly, but others drastically.

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I should say minimal mods for the heads. I've found you have to slightly open up the Marauder heads to work on CFT bodies, and Boss Fight heads work on Marauder bodies fine, just sometimes they sit a little low.

For skin tones, I think champagne beige is close to Marauder light and CFT Buckaroos 1,3, and 5. I think Marauder tan works with CFT Buckaroo 2, but not sure if there is a Boss fight blank or other figure that works (I know I tried a tan Marauder head with the Boss Fight dragon gatherer, and it was a bad match). And, Marauder dark skin works with Buckaroo 4 and a Boss fight body, but can't remember which one I used before.

Then with all the Captain Powers/other figure links, I've lost track of which of those have similar constructions and heads that can be swapped.

Dime Novel Legends skin tones were designed to match up with MTF.

BFS HACKS are their own thing meaning they don't design them with other lines in mind and aren't trying to make them interchangable with anyone else's. That includes skin tone. They use whatever skintone plastic works for those characters or blanks, that they think will help sell that particular character or blank. So anything close to MTF or DNL is coincidence and not by design.

While the Green Valley figure itself is pretty close in articulation to the HACKS figures (with additional thigh swivel) the color is very, very pale that won't match any other skintone form the other 3 lines. Also the joints, specifically the arms pegs and wrist pegs are thinner.

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Like 2DARK2C, I have no experience with the premium figures. But with Joes or Star Wars figures, I've found that straight-from-a-bottle colors never quite work. They always need a shot of color to match up. And I also use the Apple Barrel (are they still around?) or other inexpensive acrylic paints, too.

Do you use the good paints?