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Sailor Cardassia, with the help of Doctor Mask, takes down the sinister Gul Dukat and saves Cardassia.

#Sailor Cardassia #Doctor Mask #Cardassia #sailor moon #deep space 9

Sailor Cardassia and Doctor Mask fight the sinister Gul Dukat.

#Doctor Mask #Sailor Cardassia #gul dukat #An 8 hour epic #sailor moon #deep space 9

#Bashir #Garak #deep space 9 #sailor moon #Sailor Cardassia #Doctor Mask #Saving Cardassia with the power of good Literature #toy garak #toy bashir

Extra face paint removed!

#toy dukat #face mod #done for now #I still may re paint it

Half way through removing extra face paint

#toy dukat #face mod

Removing the extra brown lines on Dukat's face.

Tools

Cotton Swabs

Non-Acetone nail polish remover

Here he is done for now with the tools I used. (I used ladyyatexel blog for this part)

#toy dukat #face mod #still need to paint it myself

All I need is some glue that will dry clear and I can try to give Dukat some "real" hair. I am probably going to end up using the glue like gel to give him the male Cardassian look.

#toy dukat #almost ready to mod #yes now I can laugh at his long locks

Dukat post first surgery, without the plastic silver vest.

This makes me want his shirt to have a square neck hole, not the round one it came with.

#toy dukat #mod #neck ridges #out of full uniform

More pictures in uniform post surgery. The added on neck ridges still work when the head is turned. I am still deciding if I want to add more glue to him on his head part, and not just his shoulders/neck. -I think I will

#toy dukat #mod #post glue #with uniform #neck ridges

Bad pictures of Dukat post hot glue surgery. His ridges still need to be painted.

But is is really noticeable that the uniform fits him now.

Look at the top picture with post neck surgery Dukat standing in front of pre-surgery picture Dukat, the Cardassian uniform actually now looks like it was made to fit his body and not someone way larger.

#toy dukat #mod #neck ridges

Doing Neck Ridges mod for the poor Cardassian who came without any.

Tools

Hot glue gun/ hot glue/ electricity

Very thin piece of metal or plastic

Sharp thin pointy object

fingers, or additional small metal or plastic tools to mold the hot glue to shape

acrylic paint

-the important part for the tools is to just use something that with a little work the hot glue will be able to be removed from the object.

-fingers, using them on hot glue can hurt if you touch the glue when it is too hot. Also when you touch an area to mod it, you need to wait for the hot glue to cool a bit before removing your finger

-go down to my second post for the full(ish) instructions

Next is painting the neck area, but I am waiting for Garak to come in so I can paint them both at the same time.

#toy dukat #neck ridges #mod

Progress photo.

#toy dukat #mod #neck ridges

Progress picture, one side with additional neck ridges and the other sadly lacking.

From here I added more glue to both sides. But his outfit is starting to fit him.

#toy dukat #mod #neck ridges

As you work you may need to remove what you did, because it did not look right , or you just remembered that you should have looked up reference photos before starting. It is easiest to remove the glue while it is still warm middle picture) , however, you are still able to remove the glue after it is completely hardened (Bottom picture) This took me some work to remove. I found using a flat, sharp pointy object (again a tool from my ceramic kit) worked best.

To remove the glue start from the edge and work deeper. Point your flat pointy tool so it is parallel to the curves on the body and apply pressure. When I removed the glue not all of it came off (I am sure if you really wanted a complete removal that would work fine it would just take a lot more time)

For smaller areas scissors also work.

#toy dukat #mod #neck ridges

After you get some glue on as a base, you can take the metal piece out and continue just being a little more careful about the are where the head and neck connect.

#toy dukat #mod #neck ridges

To make the neck ridges I am using hot glue. So that his head will not be glued to the body I put a thin piece of metal (from a ceramics tool kit) in-between the neck and the head. The piece of metal is only important so the head still has full movement after the glue drys.

#toy dukat #mod #neck ridges

Dukat was the first to arrive - I had forgotten how difficult companies made getting into toys in the 90's

#toy dukat #ready to mod #he comes with wimpy shoulders #yeah not taging to tag because who would want to see this

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