well... for the first of my "next two customs won't be mandos" project....
I've done an upgraded commando droid figure.
I felt that the elbows needed some work as well as the hips. The elbows are a relatively easy fix, if you happen to have an extra set of clone wars clone hands. take the peg/swivel joint out of the CW figure's hands. take and pop the peg out of the droid's elbow and cut away the circular piece of the elbow that is attached to the upper arm. then drill a hole into the upper arm for the cw trooper's hand peg. Then you just need to push the peg from the elbow back through both rings to hold the joint back together.
I didn't paint the new joint so I hope it is visible enough in the pictures so you can see what I'm talking about.
the next thing I did was rebuild the hip balls. The ball joints were too restricting. I found that the sockets on the legs were an exact match to some plastic pin heads that I use in my customs alot. So I trimed off the old ball joints and put on the new pin head ball joints slightly wider than the old ones. You can see that the pin head balls let the legs swivel more and almost allow the figure to do the splits... so there is much more movement achieved from doing this.
here are the pics:
Well, What do you think? An improvement?
