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Creative => How-To => Topic started by: socrates on November 11, 2005, 10:06:59
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Hmm, okay girls, I will let you know the spanish way... :yup:
(try not to giggle out loud... :-[ )
So, I disassemble my figures in giving them a firm push on the
back while they are in a seated position and the feet are fixated
somewhere... The meshs of my oven cloth are the typical ground
I use...
This is not very feasible for the overweight persons as the lever
between foot and hip is mispositioned or old persons with brittle
hips that might break before the head is released...
:hmm: of klickies I am talking of course...
...and you can't use this technique for the soccer players as there
is no seated position... :(
So what a guy from the spanish board used (I cannot be very
historically correct here though, as only gassy showed me!) is
a simple elastic band...
You simply take the band and wrap it around the figures neck.
Yes, right, exactly like you are trying to strangle the poor klicky. :yup:
Wrapping and wrapping firmly the band around the neck causes
the forces to increase that push the head away from its body.
So simply turning the head to one side will result in an unmounted
head.
So that's the spanish way... 8-)
P.S.: Best remove the wig, the elastic band might become damaged.
The physics are not so good if the figure is wearing a vest or similar...
ciao
socrates
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thank you for the tip.
I have never tried it, but hopefully this will work for the old figures. The women are particularly hard to "crack" open
I wounld think the soccer players would get tired of standing all day.
I mean they stand when they are on the sidelines, but I always assumed that they sat when the temas were traveling.
What airplane would allow them to stand these days?
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What airplane would allow them to stand these days?
Have you ever tried to sit in a plane (nowadays) like the usual playmos can sit?
:lol:
ciao
socrates
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Ok with you guys if I move the last bunch of posts to the [How-To] (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?board=6.0) section in the Customising board? I think that info on disassembly deserves a separate topic so others won't miss it. ;)
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Good idea Sixties Chick!
Socrates...remind me to behave if I am in Spain. :o
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Socrates,
i am only 5' 2" (157 cm)
I can usually sit in most planes. :P
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OK, so I'm trying this method with a 'fat' klicky, and, well, nothing. Do I wrap the rubber band around his neck, THEN turn his head to the side? or do I start with his head turned to the side?
Any other techniques for disassembling a fat klicky?
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I use a screw driver and cloth to wedge out the stout/thicker legs, and then put in a pair of normal ones.
Then they can crack open. It a little bit harder than normal klickies to crack open, but it isnt too much harder.
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I've only cracked a few fatties but I did it the way Meg describes...but with a touch of cussing thrown in. I found the second chunky one I tried worked better if I warmed up on some skinnies. (It's all in the wrist action.)
They do look a bit odd with the skinny legs on the bigger torso though. Sort of like MBL's "enhanced female" (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=141.0).
Somewhere I have some instructions, I think from www.collectobil.com, we can ask if we can post.
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OK, so I'm trying this method with a 'fat' klicky, and, well, nothing. Do I wrap the rubber band around his neck, THEN turn his head to the side? or do I start with his head turned to the side?
Serenity! :D I think, it's the same for all these techniques, a little patience is
necessary. I did it with a fat santa and it worked.
What might be a problem are vests and similar accessoirs that avoid the force
to push directly on the klickys neck...
Try it first on a normal klicky that you already have cracked... Then you can see
how it should work in general... You have to wrap the band really tight around
its neck and turn the head afterwards (my head typically turns when wrapping!).
Maybe I should make some pictures?
best regards,
socrates
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Pictures are always useful
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Pictures are always useful
Agreed...we could all benefit from photos.
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Pfuh.. so here are finally the illustrations...
:o ...took me awhile... :-[
First, simply take a klicky... Try to remove as much as possible accesssoirs
from the klickys neck as possible. They all make it more difficult.
And, of course, take a elastic band... ;)
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...then place the band around the klickys head...
(if you are a sensible person, you might skip the next few images... 8-))
...and turn and turn the band very tight around the neck.
The accumulated force of each turn of the band is used to push the head upwards,
away from the shoulders, so best is to be as close as possible at the grate between
torus and head, and to place the next turns below the first ones, which gives them
a little more direction upwards...
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I used a very thick elastic band... It is not as easy to place, but it has a bigger
force though... I am not sure of the best choice of the bands, I have to admit.
Once you placed the band as shown in figure 3, a simple turn of the head to one
side usually leads to a little *plock* and the head pushes up from the shoulders.
The nice thing is that it works under a very steady force and I got the impression,
that the klickies are in a much better condition afterwards as if cracked open...
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One last remark... A little off-topic, but this is a very similiar technique as it is
used to remove haemorrhoids, they put a tourniquet on them until they are
removed... ;)
Maybe this would be a more descriptive title of the thread.. :hmm: :P
So, have fun trying...
socrates
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Thank you Socrates...for all but that last bit of info. :omg:
In return I can't resist giving you this: :hehe:
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I cant wait to try this method
M
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On what???? :o
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you HAVE given birth, havent you ???
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Just donne it and got my fatman apart,
Thanks for the great tip,
Never have i dissasembled an overweight playmo before
and this one was piece of cake :-)
Best regards
Panos
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On what???? :o
Thanks, Mal ...
:lol: ... with tears and sides that hurt ... ;D
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I tried this method for the first time to disassemble the gordo klickies to make my dwarfs, and I can say without a doubt that not only does it work, but it works great! Thanks Socrates for posting the info here!
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This is a great new method.. I have never been able to get the "hans on" method to work.. So this will be interesting to try. Have you ever had a figure break using this method?
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Wow this method is great, I used it for the first time today. I usually just "crack" the klickys open but theres always the risk of using to much force. This way is a lot safer thanks for the tip ;D
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OMG......I know this thread is ancient and I hope posting this is not bad form. But I just had to thank Socrates for sharing the elusive "Spanish Way" to choke a klicky apart.
I didn't believe....until I found a rubber band and....and....it was SO EASY!
I am flabbergasted. Agog even. 8} Why didn't I know of this method a million years ago?
I thank you Socrates for this information. My klickies thank you...except for the klickies at the physical therapy ward of Playmo-Central Hosptial, they are out of a job now........now that I will never break another pair of legs again.
:wow:
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Never bad form to refresh an old thread Jamie Jo - after all, how many threads do we need asking for the same 3666 plans? ;)
I tried this method with little success, but might try it again.
I eventually went with the shoelace round the neck method for fatties. The shoelace is still tied to my bannisters, because the cat thought it was there for his benefit and plays with it daily. The black fluffy fur he sheds during his play sessions acts as dumb witness.
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@jamie: oh my... :-[
its not even my method. gassy (and the bunch of playmo-fanatic spaniards) own the credit for this method.
happy that it helps so many people... :D
best,
socrates
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@jamie: oh my... :-[
its not even my method. gassy (and the bunch of playmo-fanatic spaniards) own the credit for this method.
happy that it helps so many people... :D
best,
socrates
Socrates,
Wellllll.....you translated it and shared in English. ;D Thanks as well to Gassy and the Spaniards! :wow:
It is just so....disarmingly.....simple.
Martin,
try it with a very thick rubber band, twisted nice and tight, turn his head and he falls to pieces. I used the kind that binds broccoli stalks together into a bunch at the produce market.
While you rearrange the bits the fella's head just lays there, smiling at you, with a fabulous looking tight rubber scarf around it's neck. :lol:
No more little feet impression dug into the palms of your hands.
No more stress marks on the bottom of the torsos from whacking and cracking, no more broken and bent legs.
I have a very sad Roman soldier custom who....hobbles and rocks about because his legs aren't plum. He wishes I would have known this method sooner. :doh: hehehe
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Hello Jamie Jo,
I am very glad that you chose to re-visit this thread, I had tried this the last time it came up on the board with no luck at all. I just ended up with a klicky wearing a huge rubber muffler! Back to the old 'Whack and Crack' and the inevitable collateral damage. But I tried it again after your post and wonder of wonders! This will be my new default method and I will save the 'Whack and Crack' just for the hard nuts! Thanks to you and Socrates and Gassy and all the others. :wow: :wow:
Gepetto
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Hello, Gepetto & Jamie Jo
& everypmone else!
:wave:
It's like magic, isn't it? :yup:
& it works with common elastic bands as well ... I did with one I had at home (first I found), without much hope, and it worked out! 8} When I found Socrates' how-to, based on Gassy, I was marvelled! : http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=2288.0
It's miraculous! & Still have to take the case to the Physics Institute, at UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro University) ...
Thanks now, Socrates, in your own thread. Tell Gassy (is he/she here in Playmofriends?) that it was the best discovery ever, to the playmo community of collectors! :)
Gus
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I'm gonna have to be late to the party also, but I'll express my thanks for posting this wonderful technique. I was never able to get the other method to work, I think I was just to scared of breaking the Klicky. I gave the Spanish method a shot during my lunch hour and it worked perfectly.
Now I can't wait to start customizing some Klickies!
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It's completely off the topic S. H., but I liked dearly your new picture! ;D
G.
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attached, in case if you change, in the future, we won't loose this change ...
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It's completely off the topic S. H., but I liked dearly your new picture! ;D
Thank you :) It's one of my favorite Klicky's, and also a wonderful photo taken by my wife.
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My favorite "retired" disassembly method is the shoestring (aka Tom Sawyer method).
You tie one of the string to the klicky's neck and the other end to a doorknob.
Then you yank the klicky.
I made the gross error of implementing this in a confined space and wound up with the detached head ricocheting around the room like a bullet.