awesome tool for splitting palitoy figures!

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awesome tool for splitting palitoy figures!

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as long as you boil & pop one limb, you can use these!
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cool. are they expensive??
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not cheap, but dont think they are too bad....
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THis may have been covered lots before, but when people are saying "boil and pop" is that literally boiling the fig in water then prising it open? I've only done a few in the last few days, but they have come apart quite nicely just by starting at teh crotch with a craft knife and slowly putting bigger (small) screwdrivers in to open the seams up? With no boiling. With boiling, how long do you simmer the chaps for?
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I usually drop the figure into a cup of boiling water for about 30 seconds, and then the arms and legs just "pop" off !
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Once the arms have popped out and you`ve painted them, how do you get them back in?
Or have you split the torso after the popping has stopped?
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once youve popped the limbs you need to crack open the torso.
this tool might be so good after all, sometimes the bodies can get brittle with age & i just broke one using this!
steve, if you pop the limbs 1st it's easier.
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Andy1672 wrote:I usually drop the figure into a cup of boiling water for about 30 seconds, and then the arms and legs just "pop" off !
That sounds so much more fun than messing around with screwdrivers. I'm going to try that tonight! Cheers guys.
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you will still need to use the screw drivers to crack the body, be really carefull with the legs, the pegs have a habit of breaking!
steve, are you not supposed to be working on a case right now?
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Ross SC wrote:you will still need to use the screw drivers to crack the body, be really carefull with the legs, the pegs have a habit of breaking!
steve, are you not supposed to be working on a case right now?
He's pouring the Vodka and Orange as we speak to see if indeed a Screwdriver does help ;) Bugger the case, there's drunken customising to be done.

BTW there is a widget for Fly tying that is very similar, I may have one somewhere. Hmmm.

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