Hey Sto was fans and action-fig collectors, hope everyone is doing fantastic. I know I've been a little bit short on the content in the last couple of weeks. My life's just a little bit of chaos at the moment. I'm doing well but yeah it's hard. I'm sort of sort of in between you know new figures coming in and older figures being stuck in storage at the moment which isn't which is a bit annoying but I'm here. I picked up thing up today and I want to sort of show you a little walkthrough for something I've been planning for a while. So as you can see in front of you I have the Black Series Mandalorian which feel like me you know this helmet sculpt has left much to the imagination like this one is probably one of the better ones I've seen but it's still you know it's still warped it's still out of whack but I've complained about them before you know they're sort of cut across and it just doesn't look that good. So I've seen this trick used by a few other people so I'm going to do it myself and I think I'll end up with a slightly better looking figure. Afterwards be nice for us to go back to the drawing board and fix the helmet on these mandos. So we'll see we'll see. And standing alongside is the new sort of three P O A four P O A four P O A sort of budget release that come in the box. These have started showing up that came up here in Australia for ten bucks each. Now the appealing thing of this is obviously the helmet. The sculpt's nice there's no sort of paint detail the bottom half you know it's just it's black not all it's up like a dark brown a little bit of light brown for the belt and you're silver for the armor that's pretty much all you're getting for this figure five points of articulation head arms waist that's it. That's all you're getting so for ten bucks you can't really complain so I decided to pick this one up for the helmet. So if you look at the shape of the helmet it's sort of got a room nice taper from the back through down to the I say the chin the bottom of the T visor and it comes around and overall it's just a nicer looking aesthetic helmet it's you know strong it's sturdy it's not molded onto anything else it's just the helmet that's all it is so that is a simple you know you can use a little bit of hot water or a hairdryer just to loosen that up but it does come off quite easily it's pretty tough you know this thing is just tough plastic no sort of rubber elements or anything so yeah if we compare side by side so as you can see mine has a custom softwood coat cape so I'm going to tap pop that off and we'll get a look at these side by side see an ever so slight difference in size that you can sort of see what I mean there just that sort of shape it's just not there in the black series and I know it's because they've gone for the head inside so that when they can do dingerance head they can just pop a helmet over the top of it but it just hasn't come out right and it's pretty much suffered the Mandalorian figures since the beginning whereas the tvc vintage collection three and three quartering scale stuff they've absolutely nailed that bang on the head perfect awesome pain apps could be a little bit left to do desired but for the most part it's pretty good so the main issue we have here is the head size now this one I have drilled out a little bit that's why it looks a little bit rough that was just so I could do an easy head swap between this one and the unmasked in jarron head so that's okay so this that's going to take some boiling to get on this fear on the five POA or the three POA budget release so I will do that because you know it looks still like to display this somewhere and you know to put a head back on it looks fine so we're going to get that out of the way because we don't need that now all you have is the black series body and the head now it is you know it's a loose fit it's you know it's going to fall off so what I've got here is a little bit of blue tack now later on down the line I'll get some probably some hard-setting plaster or like green stuff that we use for warhammer and yeah so I've just added that just to create a little bit of bulk popping it in just giving you a good wriggle around and there we have you know if it was the tiniest little bit bigger I think it would be absolutely perfect but for me this is so much better and again the SH figure arts figure which is a lot bigger a lot of articulation etc probably worth the money yeah sure but even then that head looks out of scale whereas this one now it's a lot better jetpack still needs a paint that should be the same color as this and because I have glued the jetpack on I can't actually remove it otherwise I'll probably put this sort of simple cape over the back sort of because that actually looks quite good it's not you know has been reusing the same sort of rubber moulded sort of softwood poncho that sort of you know it's it's the same thing moulded again and again again in slightly different colors so that's what I have for you today I hope you've enjoyed this I hope you can go and give this a shot go pick up your budget mandos it's not bad it's a you know it's an affordable way I know they're probably only like five bucks in the States but uh ten bucks down in Australia still not too bad but a year that's looking much better just to shape the direction you can have it pointed like having looking much better fantastic stuff so let's hope in the future it has broken on the black series mando fixes him up really just perfects that helmet mould and uh we won't have to complain about it ever again all right folks thank you very much for watching I hope you've enjoyed this video pre-showed all your support despite my slight absences and stuff like that but uh I'm still still around still kicking still doing great so thank you for all your support especially to my members uh you guys absolutely rock um I can't wait to get back into the swing of things um hopefully I can get some videos together some figures coming soon you know etc etc but uh yeah we'll speak to you soon until then may the force be with you always you