Need help customizing and/or disassembling Marvel legends hands
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Need help customizing and/or disassembling Marvel legends hands

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Hello, forgive me if this question has been answered somewhere, I can't find it. the closest is about making the fingers jointed. I basically joined to ask this question (and found other reasons it was worth it).
My question: how do you split the seam of the 6 inch Marvel Legends hands? Is it just the labor-intensive scalpel passes, or is there a faster method?
I have plans I want to put into practice, specifically about the Juggernaut series' Wolverine & Rogue, and Old Man Logan, with possible future/past applications. In regards to Rogue, I want to make both hands removable/exchangeable via making a mold of the wrist pin of the right fist, as well as make additional hands (flat palm from long ago [Invisible Woman], trigger finger [Sharon Carter, Maria Hill], and holding fists [Mockingbird], etc).

Posted by scibott
on Saturday, May 20, 2017
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scibott -
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
So here are three blurry photos showing the seam (drawn in green) that I'm talking about:



The circle part of the second image is the hinge pin.
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Henchmen4Hire -
Sunday, May 21, 2017
This tutorial is for articulating hands http://www.figurerealm.com/customtutori ... view&id=44

I don't find it worth the trouble since it's way easier/neater to make extra sets of interchangeable hands. To make them interchangeable, all you do is shave away at the wrist pegs until they pop on and off with little force.
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scibott -
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Yeah, that's the article about jointed fingers I was referring to. What I am talking about specifically is separating the palm from the back along the seam that runs across the knuckles to add sockets and such to them. Similar to the Juggernaut wave Wolverine has the removable blade sockets.
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Henchmen4Hire -
Monday, May 22, 2017
I don't have that wolverine fig but are you talking about cutting the hands in half "sandwich-style" to remove just the fingers/palms? That sounds really tricky, I would still go with making the whole hand swappable. Not sure what significant benefit splitting the hand would have over simply swapping hands.

However I think it would be neat if you did it anyway as an experiment and let us know the process you come up with, and what pros/cons it has compared with other ways of swapping hands.
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