probably state of the art at the time
this is my intended victim but he will get a bit of a makeover
first task was to sharpen up the wishy washy creases
dig out the undercuts
and chop his head off
once all that was done the rebuild could commence
at least it would do normally but since I am not permitted to use anything in the build that did not come in the box I had to make myself some plastic card from a length of the sprue
the starting point
which, after a bit of work with knife and sanding stick, was turned into this thin sheet
first thing was to make a clip for the Y belt using the plastic sheet
next I turned to the bread bag - a bit weedy and the wrong shape. Couldn't do too much apart from correct the shape a bit and add some D rings from stretched sprue
bread bag in place with all the various straps and clips added from my sprue plastic card
neck hole opened out
made my own filler from more sprue dissolved in Humbrol poly
used the goop to build up his neck - once it sets it can be carved to shape
water bottle is too large but couldn't do much about that so decided to leave as is and just scrape in the cover flap and add the three buttons from stretched sprue
part two follows shortly..........