NEW! Vintage Action Man Hybrid-Hybrid Body

I'm not sure anyone has done this, and i suppose maybe the question would be "why?" well i'd seen a thread (sorry can't find it to reference it, but feel free to own up ), where someone had swapped the head onto a blue pants to get the perfect beach body shot with their VAM head...

Long story (marginally) shorter, Dal kindly sent me some bits to repair some troopers, included were two pairs of blue pants (not his pants ), and it got me thinking...  what if you didn't need to swap bodys, just pants

So i glued a ring of plastic (i used a piece of blue cable tie as i didn't know if you'd see it or not) around the inside of the pants (as the early body sat too low for my liking on the later blue pants) and then went to work reconstructing him...  same method of restringing as early bodies

just some pants


with no ring


ring glued in


sitting much better


restrung


And beach-bod ready

And what you end up with is all the benefits of the early body, including a possibly more flexible waist ... But with Blue Pants

Great work Damo! great idea too with the inner ring to help higher the torso . Another trooper saved to boot to! top work

He’s definitely got that beach-bod look .

Sgt_Elias wrote:

And what you end up with is all the benefits of the early body, including a possibly more flexible waist ...  But with Blue Pants

I like it, more so than I feel comfortable saying

Superb work...i like the look a lot

SlackElastic wrote:

I like it, more so than I feel comfortable saying

I spat tea all over my desk when i read this thanks Slack

Thanks everyone, and oh it was blackbrazen and George - the below was what inspired me

blackbrazen wrote:

Another photo from George's adventure to Okinawa. Being the commander of BBHQ, he was able to requisition a more muscular, tanned "beach body" for his trip. It looks much better on a tropical beach than his usual pasty white 1970s British body...and it also has the benefit of covering his modesty with blue pants!

Nice one Damo!! Funnily enough I saw this recently at the last AMDay. A guy had LOADS of stuff for sale but what jumped out at me the most was a 40th 64 bodied AM That had blue pants just like your guy now has. I asked the seller about it and he said he bought it with a big lot as it looked cool and that it may have been a factory cock up but admitted it was probably just a custom someone had done. I think it looks great and may sacrifice my only 40th BPEE and do one myself cos if we are all honest they are not much good for anything else really!

Hi Damo, hope all is fine and dandy. Heard about your escapeade on Facebook so popped in for a look. I like it. And would have loved it as a kid!

I have always wondered why the blue pants have a belt...

Cracking mod Damo !

The beach bod for 64 look is excellent...loving that as I have a few spare bits and bobs hanging around that feel like they could bring a trooper back to life

signalman wrote:

I have always wondered why the blue pants have a belt...

Maybe Palitoy looked into the future where companies would have their brand around the elasticated rim of your boxers, and thought it was a good idea

Nice to hear we've got a couple of people who are going to give it a go, well done Ross and GunnerMunro!  And although it would seem i wasn't the only one to have the thought (thanks Ross     ) i like the look of him, and its a great way to fix up spares.

Hiya Mark, yeah all ok my end, hope alls good with you. Facebook?...  Is that where you've all buggered off to  

Damo, mark saw this thread on my Facebook page as I shared the link there cos I thought the figure looked cool