I am always impressed with your solutions for common problems. The results speak for themselves. It's wonderful to see a few more figures returned to their former glory. And as an American, I love seeing the UK figures.
The 'Model Color' paint is made by Vallejo. It's superb model paint. If you need really weird colours, look for the paints made by Citadel, ostensibly for painting 'Dungeons & Dragons' figures. There's a mind-blowing range of colours and tones.
My new favorite drinking game; everytime you say "Milliput", DRINK. I think you enjoy saying it as much as we/I do hearing it😉. You could easily say epoxy (which has the same number of syllables) and I know you're not a spokesman for them (should be). I love this fix. I thought it was great the first time I saw it and I think your technique has gotten even better. Capes. Who knew you'd be making so many capes?
I don't remember how long ago I posted this but it's my Toy Polloi drinking game. Fiddle variations. Drink Ping out. Drink Filthy. Drink Prize it apart. Drink Version. Drink Nip variations. Drink Bits and bobs. Drink. Makes it easier to get drunk with a broad spectrum of terms.
If you go to tighten up that weak knee, you could try a light layer of clear nail polish on the inside of the joint, and on the lower leg's knee post. It'll tight it up, and stay decently firm for a while.
sticker logos on the capes are ok. Screen printing them (if you know how and you have the supplies) is thee best way to complete that task. A close second would be to cut a friskit film and paint in the stencil with a silver paint. Regardless, another great video!
Screen prints would look great, and would be how it was done originally. But most people don't have that sort of equipment, so this is an easy way for anyone to make them. I think the logo it to complicated and small to cut a good stencil for, but give it a go.
Amazing video, Dave! You approach so many issues that a figure might have. The crotch and the elbow fixes will be monumental solutions for the gi joe collectors. I'm glad you went with the jewellery tubing idea we discussed on Facebook ;) Thanks for sharing!!!
Another way you can put decal on the cape is cut the red part out the shape of the cobra and put it on the part of the cape you want the decal and use a silver paint pen to paint the decal, then you take the decal paper guide off and there it is.
Thanks for reigniting my passion to restore toys! I quit around 2013. I'm not sure why. After watching some of your video's, I dove back in. Thank you from across the pond! I have a mint Hasbro Bam Bam Bigelow with a mold spot in the plastic on his neck. Can I send him so you can do a video on it and do your magic please? Like the tree said to the lumberjack, I'm stumped.
Really glad you're getting into GI Joe, I think if you'd been bitten by the bug when you were younger you would have loved them! Larry Hama packed the Joe story with memorable characters and great scenarios. Next to Star Wars I think it was my biggest 80's toy love. Collecting the comics was a pain though - weekly lasted a year, monthly a year, we had a few 'specials', and a couple of annuals, and it spent the rest of its time as a backup strip in Transformers. But like Transformers, we also got some UK generated stories that were as good as the US ones! I think what undid it in the UK was the changing name. It started out as 'Action Force' (UK toyline with some licenced US toys slotted in), then became 'Action Force: International Heroes' (US toyline rebranded for the UK), then became GI Joe: The Action Force, then just GI Joe.
As per usual Mr Polloi has come up with a fix that looks a lot better than the original, not to mention more endowed. That jewellery plastic looks very useful and I will endeavour to get some off eBay for my figures. Good job
Nice job Dave. heres a couple of tips I use from time to time The brand of paint you used is Vallejo, an excellent acrylic brand. You can mix in a satin acrylic lacquer to the paint, this makes it more permanent and hard wearing. Think I commented on a older video about adding the green stuff epoxy to milliput, this keeps the hardness and the ability to form sharp lines of milliput with the added flex given by greenstuff. mix both parts separate as per normal, then combine them. You can mix makeup powders/ weathering powders into the baking soda to change the colour which is useful when filling gaps that cant be painted. You can also on some plastics make a permanent plastic weld by dropping a tiny amount of cellulose thinners into the crack. Keep up the good work!!!
@Toy Polloi, another way you can apply the emblem in fabric cheaply, is silkscreen. make the pattern with a piece of clear tape, and using a putty knife take some latex paint and scrape the paint over the tape pattern on the fabric.
Great Fix as ever Dave ! Glad you got another figure back up and running! Looks great with all his gear, a bit sparse looking when missing all the extra bits. Yet again its the small details that make the big overall look. :) I still call him Dr Melon Twister..
Thanks for another great informative episode :-) scoubidou threads also work well for the tubing, it's a bit more shiny and comes in all the colours of the Rainbow and the pistol can be copied in miliput if you make a simple 2 piece mold out of of oyumaru.
A fantastic video! I have really gotten into the '80s 3.75" GI JOES in recent years, so this was very pleasing to see! The Scarlett figure (Quarrel in the UK) often end up with broken pelvises, and there's no really good way to fix that, as there's just not enough room in the pelvis construction area to drill a hole. I tried, but it just broke further. I'd love to see you figure out how to repair the pelvis of a Scarlett for one of your videos.
Another great gi joe restoration ! Thank you for introducing me to the toyknit fabric I’m currently looking to make some custom capes but serpentor is another figure that has an incredibly hard cape to replicate due to the fabric it has I would be interested in seeing how you would go about that restoration he also often has broken teeth on his helmet so it may be a good one to restore
Great video I was going to say. You could have done a cape without the cobra emblem because in the cartoon Dr Mindbender cape had no cobra emblem on it.
Question I have about the pelvis fix and possibly thumb fixes: Could you make a silicone mold of an unbroken piece (assuming you have one) and put the broken piece in and fill it with resin to replace the broken bit?
That would be how it was done originally. But not something most people will have the skill or equipment to do at home. This method is something anyone can do. Cheers
Nice, job, thanks for the info on the fabric and tubing, so much more satisfying to make your own stuff. I might have a project for you soon. A Snow Cat. Will message you later and we can chat about it.
Thanks Bryn. A snow cat would be fun, I actually have a smashed up one in the loft, but it's to far gone, useful for parts only, so would be fun to get one that can be fixed!
Can you make a video like this one but restoring a Bison Gijoe from the street fighter version? I would like to know how to disarm it and then put it back together. I think it’s a little bit different from the torso.
Dose any body know the color blue the vintage TMNT 89 11" Leo the big figure. I have one with scuffs off paint on his bandana and pads. I just cant get the color right I'm at a lots!
Hi thanks for the great videos ! I'm trying to fix a Brocken pelvis part the same as you did in this video , could you pls tell me what the name of that tiny silver drill is and where the best place to buy one would be ? Thanks again
2 questions Dave, 1 would plastic weld work on cracked elbows ? 2 could you use your pattern to make a stencil and then spray on the cobra emblem or why not just iron it on directly ?
Plastic weld does work on this plastic, but it would be very hard to stop it fussing the arm together completely. You can't iron on directly as the transfer is clear,.you would see nothing if you put it directly on black.
Great video! I’ m afraid that i haven’t the patience to do these kind of retorations! Please, see my own GI Joe videos at my channel and tell me if you like it. Greetings from Spain!
" hey uh dr mindbender your codpiece seems to be broken " "really well i feel fine . " "maybe you should look yourself ?" " OH GOD NO ITS COMPLETELY GONE ! " " that is perfectly a ok dr we have mr toy polloi under contract with him under commanders control and constant quality repairs the joes wont ever be able to keep up go joe ? no hhahahahahahahahahhhahahah aa NO JOE !
that's beautiful, you saved the Doctor, Mindbender has been reborn and with a larger package, ;) Cobraaa
Cheers mate, I love your passion to keep nostalgia alive.
You fixed his trouser snake !!!! Cobraaaaaaaaa !!!! 🐍
Thank you! As The Cars would say - This is just what I needed!
These old school 80's toy fixes make me so happy.
an army of nice looking repairs, fixed mindbenders . nice work
That tubing looks to be more flexible than the original. Which, I think, is a good thing.
that pelvis repair is a first as far as i know, keep em coming
stand back bois this one has it all
First video I've seen of yours and I'm already hooked. The pelvis repair was awesome. Thanks for posting!
That's doctoring a mind-bender!
That super glue and baking soda mix is a neat trick. I've seen it used before but never on a Joe fig. Thanks for sharing.
It's Violet Red, says it on the bottom of the bottle. I really enjoy your repair videos.
Yeah, great video. Vallejo is the brand of paint.
Outstanding work Dave this is for sure pro level and beyond
nice as always
Awesome work mate!
Thanks!
Nuff Said!
Glad you enjoyed it
That Model Color is Vallejo. Good stuff.
I am always impressed with your solutions for common problems. The results speak for themselves. It's wonderful to see a few more figures returned to their former glory. And as an American, I love seeing the UK figures.
Your work is bang on.
The 'Model Color' paint is made by Vallejo. It's superb model paint. If you need really weird colours, look for the paints made by Citadel, ostensibly for painting 'Dungeons & Dragons' figures. There's a mind-blowing range of colours and tones.
Of even a Mind-Bending range of colours you could say.
He can even use his pair of jeans to fix a figure. What a legend.
Dude you rock
The small scissors look like ornamental Cobra Commander units lol
Bloody hell Dave, i was then about to get ready for bed. Better get a brew ready then.
Honest to God, I don't know how in the world do you match that paint every time.
Practice. The more you do, the easier it gets.
My new favorite drinking game; everytime you say "Milliput", DRINK. I think you enjoy saying it as much as we/I do hearing it😉. You could easily say epoxy (which has the same number of syllables) and I know you're not a spokesman for them (should be).
I love this fix. I thought it was great the first time I saw it and I think your technique has gotten even better.
Capes. Who knew you'd be making so many capes?
I don't remember how long ago I posted this but it's my
Toy Polloi drinking game.
Fiddle variations. Drink
Ping out. Drink
Filthy. Drink
Prize it apart. Drink
Version. Drink
Nip variations. Drink
Bits and bobs. Drink.
Makes it easier to get drunk with a broad spectrum of terms.
@@leekronforst4589 I'm in.👍
Yeah that "Milliput" is some ASMR at its finest 👍
His 'O' ring is broken??? Heavens! 😅
Yeah; back in the 80s, there was NO fix for this; if your figure had a busted O-ring, then too bad...
I've heard someone using rubber bands for fixing them as children.
Very useful information Dave.🙂
Damn. Never noticed until adulthood just how much all of the Cobra characters looked like The Village People.
If you go to tighten up that weak knee, you could try a light layer of clear nail polish on the inside of the joint, and on the lower leg's knee post. It'll tight it up, and stay decently firm for a while.
brilliant restoration toy polloi on dr mindbender broken pelvis . and cracked arm super glue baking soda.
sticker logos on the capes are ok. Screen printing them (if you know how and you have the supplies) is thee best way to complete that task. A close second would be to cut a friskit film and paint in the stencil with a silver paint. Regardless, another great video!
Screen prints would look great, and would be how it was done originally. But most people don't have that sort of equipment, so this is an easy way for anyone to make them. I think the logo it to complicated and small to cut a good stencil for, but give it a go.
Amazing video, Dave! You approach so many issues that a figure might have. The crotch and the elbow fixes will be monumental solutions for the gi joe collectors. I'm glad you went with the jewellery tubing idea we discussed on Facebook ;) Thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks. I did buy a few different types of tubing, but this one seemed the best. And is super cheap. Cheers
Awesome as always, now my figures will have Cobra capes 😈
Great video 👍🏽✌🏽
Another way you can put decal on the cape is cut the red part out the shape of the cobra and put it on the part of the cape you want the decal and use a silver paint pen to paint the decal, then you take the decal paper guide off and there it is.
Those are quite the scissors
More excellent fixes & I'll definitely be getting some of that Jewelry tubing.
Thanks for reigniting my passion to restore toys! I quit around 2013. I'm not sure why. After watching some of your video's, I dove back in. Thank you from across the pond! I have a mint Hasbro Bam Bam Bigelow with a mold spot in the plastic on his neck. Can I send him so you can do a video on it and do your magic please? Like the tree said to the lumberjack, I'm stumped.
If you have a good one, make a mold using thermal plastic. Put the epoxy in the mold, shove in the broken one. Once it sets, clean up and paint.
Brilliant! Helpful as always.
Really glad you're getting into GI Joe, I think if you'd been bitten by the bug when you were younger you would have loved them! Larry Hama packed the Joe story with memorable characters and great scenarios. Next to Star Wars I think it was my biggest 80's toy love. Collecting the comics was a pain though - weekly lasted a year, monthly a year, we had a few 'specials', and a couple of annuals, and it spent the rest of its time as a backup strip in Transformers. But like Transformers, we also got some UK generated stories that were as good as the US ones! I think what undid it in the UK was the changing name. It started out as 'Action Force' (UK toyline with some licenced US toys slotted in), then became 'Action Force: International Heroes' (US toyline rebranded for the UK), then became GI Joe: The Action Force, then just GI Joe.
As per usual Mr Polloi has come up with a fix that looks a lot better than the original, not to mention more endowed. That jewellery plastic looks very useful and I will endeavour to get some off eBay for my figures. Good job
Nice job Dave. heres a couple of tips I use from time to time
The brand of paint you used is Vallejo, an excellent acrylic brand. You can mix in a satin acrylic lacquer to the paint, this makes it more permanent and hard wearing.
Think I commented on a older video about adding the green stuff epoxy to milliput, this keeps the hardness and the ability to form sharp lines of milliput with the added flex given by greenstuff. mix both parts separate as per normal, then combine them.
You can mix makeup powders/ weathering powders into the baking soda to change the colour which is useful when filling gaps that cant be painted.
You can also on some plastics make a permanent plastic weld by dropping a tiny amount of cellulose thinners into the crack.
Keep up the good work!!!
@Toy Polloi, another way you can apply the emblem in fabric cheaply, is silkscreen. make the pattern with a piece of clear tape, and using a putty knife take some latex paint and scrape the paint over the tape pattern on the fabric.
Worth a go, but I think beyond most peoples skills and equipment. This fix is something anyone can do, and always get a good result. Cheers
Thank you very much for this video, I have learned a lot thanks to your techniques. I love your channel.
Awesome, thank you!
That is simply amazing!! You never seize to amaze Dave!!
Why can't you iron the emblem right on the cape?
Excellent video!!👍☯️👍
Iron on transfers are clear, so you would see nothing. You need white fabric to show the design. Cheers
@@toypolloi
Well that makes sense, l guess you would want to see what you put down 🙂
Making your own is just the same as buying reproduction stuff, neither is original but the reproduction stuff costs way more, excellent fix as always.
Parabéns pelo vídeo
Great Fix as ever Dave ! Glad you got another figure back up and running! Looks great with all his gear, a bit sparse looking when missing all the extra bits. Yet again its the small details that make the big overall look. :) I still call him Dr Melon Twister..
Thanks for another great informative episode :-) scoubidou threads also work well for the tubing, it's a bit more shiny and comes in all the colours of the Rainbow and the pistol can be copied in miliput if you make a simple 2 piece mold out of of oyumaru.
A fantastic video! I have really gotten into the '80s 3.75" GI JOES in recent years, so this was very pleasing to see! The Scarlett figure (Quarrel in the UK) often end up with broken pelvises, and there's no really good way to fix that, as there's just not enough room in the pelvis construction area to drill a hole. I tried, but it just broke further. I'd love to see you figure out how to repair the pelvis of a Scarlett for one of your videos.
It's not a figure I have, but if I find any of the female characters I will work out how I can fix them. I am sure it is possible.
Why don’t you use the silver marker to pain the brown weapon?
Weird enough, Dr MINDBENDER was my very first gi joe action figure.
Guessing this is the early Dr.X
Another great gi joe restoration ! Thank you for introducing me to the toyknit fabric I’m currently looking to make some custom capes but serpentor is another figure that has an incredibly hard cape to replicate due to the fabric it has I would be interested in seeing how you would go about that restoration he also often has broken teeth on his helmet so it may be a good one to restore
Great video I was going to say. You could have done a cape without the cobra emblem because in the cartoon Dr Mindbender cape had no cobra emblem on it.
Hi! Can you do a video restoring Serpentor teeth? Thanks love your work and your videos!
Check out my video on Cobra Tele-Viper repairs. It would be the same technique I use to make new thumbs.
looks like dr x off action man
According to his filecard, Dr. Mindbender USED to be an orthodontist; no wonder I'm so afraid of dentists...
yes give him some extra girth why not
Idea for the cape, could you create a stencil in photo shop and then spray paint the logo on to the cape ?
You could give it a go, but the cobra logo is really complicated and I'm not sure the detail would come through.
Dark T-shirt printing paper would work for the printed on version of the cape.
How do you print white onto it?
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Why not iron it directly to the cape? I'm sure there's a reason. I'm just curious.
The iron on fabric is clear. So you would not see any logo. That is why you need the white fabric first. Cheers
Question I have about the pelvis fix and possibly thumb fixes:
Could you make a silicone mold of an unbroken piece (assuming you have one) and put the broken piece in and fill it with resin to replace the broken bit?
Hii I am from india .. Please suggest me colors which I get in india for repaint my Joe's...Thanks .... Appreciate your work...
For the cape, perhaps a small silk-screen would do? Did I miss something? Why not iron on the transfer direct to the cape? Thanks
That would be how it was done originally. But not something most people will have the skill or equipment to do at home. This method is something anyone can do. Cheers
Great video as always, but would you happen to know where one could find some of that "toy knit" fabric? Thanks!
Check out some of my other more recent cape videos as I will have links to where I get it now.
Nice, job, thanks for the info on the fabric and tubing, so much more satisfying to make your own stuff. I might have a project for you soon. A Snow Cat. Will message you later and we can chat about it.
Thanks Bryn. A snow cat would be fun, I actually have a smashed up one in the loft, but it's to far gone, useful for parts only, so would be fun to get one that can be fixed!
I'll message you when I have taken some pics, might not be for a while, I know I have one near complete and spare parts to another.
Model color is much better paint than humbrol in acrylics
Can you make a video like this one but restoring a Bison Gijoe from the street fighter version? I would like to know how to disarm it and then put it back together. I think it’s a little bit different from the torso.
He's not a figure I have, but if I get one I will take a look. Cheers
There is a similar place for Transformer parts it's called transformerland
Fantastic upload, excellent as always.
Dr Mindbender - you really think he'd have changed that name during his PhD 😀
Dose any body know the color blue the vintage TMNT 89 11" Leo the big figure. I have one with scuffs off paint on his bandana and pads. I just cant get the color right I'm at a lots!
How big is the o ring for GI Joes?
Why not iron the logo directly on the cape?
Iron on transfers are clear, you need a white material to get them to show up properly. Cheers
I was thinking the exact same thing...seems like it would have been possible.
Hi thanks for the great videos ! I'm trying to fix a Brocken pelvis part the same as you did in this video , could you pls tell me what the name of that tiny silver drill is and where the best place to buy one would be ? Thanks again
Hi, Check out the tool shop on toypolloi.com I list all the tools I use there. Cheers
Hi I'm in South Africa am I able to order of your web site
2 questions Dave, 1 would plastic weld work on cracked elbows ? 2 could you use your pattern to make a stencil and then spray on the cobra emblem or why not just iron it on directly ?
Plastic weld does work on this plastic, but it would be very hard to stop it fussing the arm together completely.
You can't iron on directly as the transfer is clear,.you would see nothing if you put it directly on black.
@@toypolloi cheers. Keep up the great work. Your videos inspire and make lockdown that little bit easier 👍
Was Dr.Mindbender the inspiration for the evil guy in 90's Action Man?
Well, kind of; Dr. X was a Cyborg and Dr. Mindbender was a Psycho... ;-)
Heat the pin, shove it in. It holds much better then glue.
Being the untalented brother of Glen Hughes he was cast out of the Village People during auditions and joined COBRA.
Yep, its always a bummer when the crotch drops off your Mindbender!
Great video! I’ m afraid that i haven’t the patience to do these kind of retorations!
Please, see my own GI Joe videos at my channel and tell me if you like it.
Greetings from Spain!
" hey uh dr mindbender your codpiece seems to be broken "
"really well i feel fine . "
"maybe you should look yourself ?"
" OH GOD NO ITS COMPLETELY GONE ! "
" that is perfectly a ok dr we have mr toy polloi under contract
with him under commanders control and constant quality repairs
the joes wont ever be able to keep up
go joe ?
no hhahahahahahahahahhhahahah aa
NO JOE !
Just a few pride flags and these guys are good to go lol great fix as always Dave