Here's a little mod job that I thought would be quick and easy, that is, until I got an idea from Phineas Curmudgeon...
But I'm getting ahead of myself already. I was checking out a WIP thread by a favorite customizer of mine; Grownman, and saw some improvements he made to the new SMC Juggernaut. I had seen the prototype for this Juggy at SDCC 2008 and was on the fence as to whether I wanted to pick it up or not. Then I saw Grownman's improvements to it and thought I'd pick one up and take a whack at it.
Original Juggernaut >
The main mod GM made was to replace the enormous forearms and hands with the forearms and hands from a HML2 Thor. I liked the look but unfortunately those Thor hands were made for gripping Mjolnir and a battle axe. I couldn't get around the fact that Juggernaut is a character that needs fists.
Once I finally got around to starting (July 2009) on this job I tried out various fists from larger figures and happened across a SOTA Street Fighter Akuma figure that I hadn't been able to figure out what to do with. He had fists that fit perfectly and he already had some funky hand thing that was too far off from the funky hand thongs Juggernaut has. I took some quick pics and showed my idea to some fellow customizers who all gave it the green light.
*I started out with a variant paint job Juggy but I botched up his waist pretty bad so you'll notce in the WIP pics that his colors change : p *
I was on the way. Then the Curmudgeon struck. He brought up something about this Juggernaut figure that was bothering me on a subconscious level: small balls. Hip balls to be exact. Once you cure the gorilla arms you still got a Juggernaut with tiny hip balls that look ridiculous with his legs. But the Curmudgeon provided an answer: Swap Juggy's waist with one from a SOTA SF Blanka. SOTA even made one in brown that was almost a similiar to Juggernaut! Now where the Hell was I going to get one of those? To make this long story a little shorter; I went to SDCC 2009 and scored a Blanka cheap from a dealer. Huzzah!
Now my only problem was how to integrate the Juggernaut torso with the Blanka waist? I remembered a mod done by Grownman. I sawed through the Juggernaut waist about halfway down, then dremelled off the Blanka waist swivel peg and through careful measuring and sanding cemented the Juggy waist to the Blanka.
Then it was just a matter of strengthening and filling it out with some Fixit Sculpt. I decided that his waist was a lot of real estate to just be plain brown so I took another liberty and gave Juggy a belt. The rest can be seen in the pics, so without further delay...
WIP Pics >
Finished >
A cool benefit from using a Street Fighter Waist!
Recipe >
SMC Juggernaut Helmet, Head, Torso, Upper Arms, Top of Waist and Legs
HML2 Thor Lower Arms
SOTA SF Akuma Fists
SOTA SF Blanka Waist
DCSH Batman Belt Buckle
Fixit Sculpt for the Belt and filling out the Waist and Wristbands
Thanx for looking!
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