Alot of the comments said you messed up the evil face but it does not look bad at all, The residues is normal from my use too but it dries, it’s such a safer option over acetone great video!
Great info!!!! I used it to remove the cel shading on my ML Cyclops. I used a brush and paper towels and was very happy with the results. Just be careful with the amount of the brush cleaner that you use. When working on the front abdomen/belt area, there was some residue cleaner that got through joints and was on the back of the figure for a minute and messed up some of the plastic because I was unaware. Each time I finished a part, I placed it in water, just to be safe in ending the chemical process.
Yup with Mr Sinister I've definitely confirmed that they use slightly different plastics for the torso than they do for the limbs. And other parts can be even more different. In my Mystique video her skirt was REALLY hard to remove the paint from! I'm super glad it worked for you though! Will you be de-cel shading any other figures?
Heck yeah I'm really glad I could be helpful to you to create your X-Men team!! Are you trying to build out a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants too to really recreate the opening sequence with both teams running at each other? Or are you sticking to just the heroes for now?
@@ComicallyToys Howd you know ?!? Yeah want to have that as my sentinel display. But seriously thank you first time I tried to modify a fig and it came out great!
That sounds awesome! And you're so welcome! Definitely shoot me some pics on social media if you decide to take some of your display once you have it going. I'd love to see it!
Just an update to my previous post. The Windsor and Newton brush cleaner & restorer doea not damage the plastic. I had some excess runoff that I didn't realize, and it got under the glued down Cyclops harness and did eemove some off the glue. So it can act like a solvent on glue, but again, it doesn't seem to affect the regular plastic. This was a solid video 👍🏾
I'm so glad it's worked out for you! I will say though that the brush cleaner CAN damage plastic, but it depends on the plastic. My Mr Sinister in particular doesn't look so great on the torso and thighs after the paint removal. I think that's a big part of what makes these videos helpful to see what parts might be damaged or not by the removal.
@ComicallyToys much appreciated passing along your experience with the Mr Sinister paint removal. When I did my work on the Cyclops figure, I did boil and pop, to disassemble him as much as I could. That way, there would ve less contamination between the cel shading on the blue and yellow parts. Also, I would use a Q-tip more than the paint brush in the future because the paint brush held onto more liquid
Yup! I finally have the animated Spider-Man and my plan is to boil/pop to break it down as much as possible. It's going to be a lot more complicated than the others I've done so far.
When Morph switches personalities from good to evil, the evil face has the shade on the eyes, I wouldn't remove it because those are Good Morph/Bad Morph heads, the body looks great now I wanna do that lol
Well I in part did it to see if I could even do it haha, but I also feel like the Good Morph head doesn't really look as much like him as the Bad one does. The Good one looks great in the sense of like, how he might have looked if he were from the comics though. But yeah, definitely try the paint removal and let me know how it goes!
@@ComicallyToys they probably didn't go fully animated series likenes for future repaints, you know Hasbro loves repaints, they will re-release a no cell shade version and they'd be stupid if they don't do a "deluxe" retro card with a bunch of head sculpts for other X-Men like the Toy Biz morph did...
haha yeah i really won't be surprised if they do that! though since this version of morph didn't exist in the comics it's very possible they won't release him without shading as well. so far they've stuck true to "accurate" releases if that makes sense. but they do like their money... so never say never haha
@@ComicallyToys I started collecting Hasbro with the Juggernaut BAF wave, I've collected every character that appeared in the animated series and 90s comics (except AoA) they've been pretty hybrid with their comic versions and the animated series, most recent example is Apocalypse, no cell shaded but I don't remember ever seen Apocalypse in purple in the comics, that came straight from the A.S. I bet there's a lot that has done the same and collected these X-Men because of the show and Hasbro knows that, I really doubt they'll keep Morph as a "VHS" cell shaded release, specially when he was in that Toy Biz line which these retro cards is based on, "Morph no cell Shaded Retro carded" I'm gonna save this and I'll be back when it happens 😂🤣
Was recommended your channel when asking about methods to do this and I'm pretty impressed with how yours came out. I've got to ask, its been 3 months since you posted this video. Have you run into any adverse affects using the brush cleaner? Anything noticeable on the plastic as time passed? I plan to follow your video beat-by-beat and I thought I'd ask how good ol' Morph is currently doing. Thanks for the great video!
That's incredibly flattering so thank you for that! To answer your question, no I've not noticed any adverse effects at all. Once I switched from acetone to the brush cleaner, the figures I've done have come out really, really well. You'll see that with the Cyclops and Spider-Man figures I've done. The only thing that COULD possibly be a problem is that both acetone and the brush cleaner do wipe away any kind of sheen or gloss the figure has. At least that's what some of the people that have commented say they see on the figures. Personally I barely notice that and am not bothered by it. If you haven't seen the Mr Sinister video I did, then a quick tip for when you do Morph: tape off the X on his belt before you start. That way you don't accidentally end up rubbing any of the black off of that. Other than that it should be fairly straightforward! Please definitely share your results once you've done it!
I'm glad I was able to be helpful to you! If you have an IG then feel free to tag me in your de-cel shading results! Yeah I'm planning to eventually get around to Jubilee. I attempted Jean, but she is far more complicated and honestly is better off just getting a full repaint unfortunately.
I'd say that was pretty darn successful. I'd recommend making some smaller swabs using toothpicks with some of the q-tip swab fibers for working around the eye area. Just pull some of the tips off of the swabs, taking out small sections of it to add to each toothpick that you make. To get the swab fibers to stay attached to the toothpicks, just dip the tip of the toothpick in Elmer's glue, then add your smaller bits of fiber to the end. Make several of these smaller swabs to get those hard to get areas. It should be worth it in the long run to make a few just for this purpose. And if that sounds like too much work, then simply use a smaller brush to get better results, man. :)
@@ComicallyToys I've been an artist for so long, customizing figures is pretty much a natural thing to me. I usually touch up at least half of what Hasbro puts out in the Legends line. I'm very picky, I suppose, but I don't like the way that they do eyebrows a lot of times, and I really didn't like the way Madam Hydra's eyes were done. She had crazy-large eyebrows, and I just didn't dig the look, so I removed all the paint around her eyes. That meant that I removed the pupils too, because I'm actually quite good at repainting eyes with a brush. I can make them look as nice as possible because I've spent uses inking with a brush, and that enables me to have a very steady hand. I made my Hobgoblin figure look more comic book accurate -- much better looking -- by repainting his eyes completely also. It's amazing how paint application can make or break a figure.
I really appreciate the tips! And I'd love to see some of your figures that you've painted! They really, really can make or break a figure. I've seen some amazing work done on taking an "okay" figure to a "holy cow" figure. I've personally never felt very good about being able to paint figures which is why I mostly stick to removing paint or painting black! haha
@@ComicallyToys I have just begin a new Hobgoblin figure repaint today, so I took some photos for you. So far, I've just repainted his eyes, and I brushed on a varnish coat (ardcoat from citadel). They didn't turn out so well because I used my wife's antiquated cell phone, but they should be good enough to make out what I did. The eye sculpts on this figure are actually very, very good, but Hasbro's paint app over them alters the look of the eyes considerably. All I did was follow what the eyes in the sculpture, and then I give Hobby the heavy black shadows around his eyes. It's WAY cooler than what Hasbro did with the eyes! At least, I think so. It puts him more "on-model" with his comic book look. Since they really made this figure look very basic, it needs some paint washes and repainting around the eyes to transform the figure a winner. www.lostonwallace.com/hob01.jpg www.lostonwallace.com/hob02.jpg www.lostonwallace.com/hob03.jpg www.lostonwallace.com/hob04.jpg And a sketch for you: www.lostonwallace.com/hobgoblinsketch1.jpg
Green Goblin is done! I had to redo his eyes and give him better paint to make myself happy. lol! www.lostonwallace.com/greengob1.jpg www.lostonwallace.com/greengob2.jpg www.lostonwallace.com/greengob3.jpg
Yeah it was mostly to see if I COULD do it, which I feel pretty happy with the results overall. With these mods/customs, I prefer to also have an original/untouched version as well so I've ordered a second one during the Hasbro Pulse Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale!
Hey man I'm so sorry for the late reply and also that it didn't work. Since my last video I've learned that the company changed the formula to their product. I actually did reach out to them about it and they responded letting me know that they've gotten a lot of feedback so there is a good chance they'll be reverting the formula back to the old one. In the mean time I've ordered a few more brush cleaners to see if I can find one that will perform the same way. Sorry again!
Its very nice! But the shading on his eyes are part of the character stransformation, not cellshading. You can see it on the animation, those are literally marcs on his eyes as he transform to his evil version.
Thank you! Yeah I understand, but I also feel like his face without the shading looks like him before the transformation which is part of why I wanted to do it. The other reason was just to see if I could do it! haha
Haha yeah I hear ya! I only did it because someone had asked about doing it, but also to see if I could do it! I'm definitely still an amateur at this but think I'm getting just a little better with every mod that I do!
Well it's a hobby and i think everyone is free to enjoy their hobby how they see fit especially if it's their own money. Personally I really like the cel shading.
I actually really like the cel shading, but I've seen people want to remove the cel shading so I figured I'd give it a shot to see if I can do it. That's why I get two of each figure so I can still have one with the shading!
Alot of the comments said you messed up the evil face but it does not look bad at all, The residues is normal from my use too but it dries, it’s such a safer option over acetone great video!
Dude thank you so much! And also for all the tips! I definitely owe you big time! :D
Simply awesome and great hands .
Both came out perfect and thank you for sharing 💫⚡️✨
Thank you I'm glad I could be helpful to you! If there's anything else you'd like to see then feel free to suggest it!
This is totally perfect! 👏🏻
Thank you so much!
Great info!!!! I used it to remove the cel shading on my ML Cyclops. I used a brush and paper towels and was very happy with the results. Just be careful with the amount of the brush cleaner that you use. When working on the front abdomen/belt area, there was some residue cleaner that got through joints and was on the back of the figure for a minute and messed up some of the plastic because I was unaware. Each time I finished a part, I placed it in water, just to be safe in ending the chemical process.
Yup with Mr Sinister I've definitely confirmed that they use slightly different plastics for the torso than they do for the limbs. And other parts can be even more different. In my Mystique video her skirt was REALLY hard to remove the paint from! I'm super glad it worked for you though! Will you be de-cel shading any other figures?
Whoooo just followed your vid thank you so much! Xmen Tas squad is now complete 👊
Heck yeah I'm really glad I could be helpful to you to create your X-Men team!! Are you trying to build out a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants too to really recreate the opening sequence with both teams running at each other? Or are you sticking to just the heroes for now?
@@ComicallyToys Howd you know ?!? Yeah want to have that as my sentinel display. But seriously thank you first time I tried to modify a fig and it came out great!
That sounds awesome! And you're so welcome! Definitely shoot me some pics on social media if you decide to take some of your display once you have it going. I'd love to see it!
I really like the evil face without the heavy eye shadow! Might need to try this on a spare Morph.
Same! That's what doubles are for haha
Just an update to my previous post. The Windsor and Newton brush cleaner & restorer doea not damage the plastic. I had some excess runoff that I didn't realize, and it got under the glued down Cyclops harness and did eemove some off the glue. So it can act like a solvent on glue, but again, it doesn't seem to affect the regular plastic. This was a solid video 👍🏾
I'm so glad it's worked out for you! I will say though that the brush cleaner CAN damage plastic, but it depends on the plastic. My Mr Sinister in particular doesn't look so great on the torso and thighs after the paint removal. I think that's a big part of what makes these videos helpful to see what parts might be damaged or not by the removal.
@ComicallyToys much appreciated passing along your experience with the Mr Sinister paint removal. When I did my work on the Cyclops figure, I did boil and pop, to disassemble him as much as I could. That way, there would ve less contamination between the cel shading on the blue and yellow parts. Also, I would use a Q-tip more than the paint brush in the future because the paint brush held onto more liquid
Yup! I finally have the animated Spider-Man and my plan is to boil/pop to break it down as much as possible. It's going to be a lot more complicated than the others I've done so far.
When Morph switches personalities from good to evil, the evil face has the shade on the eyes, I wouldn't remove it because those are Good Morph/Bad Morph heads, the body looks great now I wanna do that lol
Well I in part did it to see if I could even do it haha, but I also feel like the Good Morph head doesn't really look as much like him as the Bad one does. The Good one looks great in the sense of like, how he might have looked if he were from the comics though. But yeah, definitely try the paint removal and let me know how it goes!
@@ComicallyToys they probably didn't go fully animated series likenes for future repaints, you know Hasbro loves repaints, they will re-release a no cell shade version and they'd be stupid if they don't do a "deluxe" retro card with a bunch of head sculpts for other X-Men like the Toy Biz morph did...
haha yeah i really won't be surprised if they do that! though since this version of morph didn't exist in the comics it's very possible they won't release him without shading as well. so far they've stuck true to "accurate" releases if that makes sense. but they do like their money... so never say never haha
@@ComicallyToys I started collecting Hasbro with the Juggernaut BAF wave, I've collected every character that appeared in the animated series and 90s comics (except AoA) they've been pretty hybrid with their comic versions and the animated series, most recent example is Apocalypse, no cell shaded but I don't remember ever seen Apocalypse in purple in the comics, that came straight from the A.S. I bet there's a lot that has done the same and collected these X-Men because of the show and Hasbro knows that, I really doubt they'll keep Morph as a "VHS" cell shaded release, specially when he was in that Toy Biz line which these retro cards is based on, "Morph no cell Shaded Retro carded" I'm gonna save this and I'll be back when it happens 😂🤣
I hope they do release one! I actually enjoy being wrong about this stuff! Can't wait to see you come back around if/when they do release it! :D
That's cool .. i like it both with and without shading .. i actually modified my morph as well but the hair and face more
Yeah me too! And that's neat, I'll have to check that out!
@@ComicallyToys yeah for sure ! I posted a video actually !
Was recommended your channel when asking about methods to do this and I'm pretty impressed with how yours came out. I've got to ask, its been 3 months since you posted this video. Have you run into any adverse affects using the brush cleaner? Anything noticeable on the plastic as time passed? I plan to follow your video beat-by-beat and I thought I'd ask how good ol' Morph is currently doing. Thanks for the great video!
That's incredibly flattering so thank you for that!
To answer your question, no I've not noticed any adverse effects at all. Once I switched from acetone to the brush cleaner, the figures I've done have come out really, really well. You'll see that with the Cyclops and Spider-Man figures I've done. The only thing that COULD possibly be a problem is that both acetone and the brush cleaner do wipe away any kind of sheen or gloss the figure has. At least that's what some of the people that have commented say they see on the figures. Personally I barely notice that and am not bothered by it.
If you haven't seen the Mr Sinister video I did, then a quick tip for when you do Morph: tape off the X on his belt before you start. That way you don't accidentally end up rubbing any of the black off of that. Other than that it should be fairly straightforward! Please definitely share your results once you've done it!
I wonder if I'll even need to remove the cel shading on the jacket since I'm planning on black washing it to make it look darker brown?
I think it might still pop through if you don't remove first.
@@ComicallyToys Yeah, you're probably right. It's not like it'll take that long to remove anyways
What brand of liquid are you using?
I'm using acrylic brush cleaner. You can find it here: amzn.to/3J9lkzm I hope this works for you!
Thank you so much for doing this video! Will you be doing additional ones for Jean Grey and Jubilee soon?
I'm glad I was able to be helpful to you! If you have an IG then feel free to tag me in your de-cel shading results! Yeah I'm planning to eventually get around to Jubilee. I attempted Jean, but she is far more complicated and honestly is better off just getting a full repaint unfortunately.
What brand is it. Would love to use it
I've updated the description with a link to the one I purchased! Thanks for your support!
I'd say that was pretty darn successful. I'd recommend making some smaller swabs using toothpicks with some of the q-tip swab fibers for working around the eye area. Just pull some of the tips off of the swabs, taking out small sections of it to add to each toothpick that you make. To get the swab fibers to stay attached to the toothpicks, just dip the tip of the toothpick in Elmer's glue, then add your smaller bits of fiber to the end. Make several of these smaller swabs to get those hard to get areas. It should be worth it in the long run to make a few just for this purpose. And if that sounds like too much work, then simply use a smaller brush to get better results, man. :)
That's a great idea! I really appreciate that and will definitely give that a go if I try something like this again(which is likely)! :)
@@ComicallyToys I've been an artist for so long, customizing figures is pretty much a natural thing to me. I usually touch up at least half of what Hasbro puts out in the Legends line. I'm very picky, I suppose, but I don't like the way that they do eyebrows a lot of times, and I really didn't like the way Madam Hydra's eyes were done. She had crazy-large eyebrows, and I just didn't dig the look, so I removed all the paint around her eyes. That meant that I removed the pupils too, because I'm actually quite good at repainting eyes with a brush. I can make them look as nice as possible because I've spent uses inking with a brush, and that enables me to have a very steady hand. I made my Hobgoblin figure look more comic book accurate -- much better looking -- by repainting his eyes completely also. It's amazing how paint application can make or break a figure.
I really appreciate the tips! And I'd love to see some of your figures that you've painted! They really, really can make or break a figure. I've seen some amazing work done on taking an "okay" figure to a "holy cow" figure. I've personally never felt very good about being able to paint figures which is why I mostly stick to removing paint or painting black! haha
@@ComicallyToys I have just begin a new Hobgoblin figure repaint today, so I took some photos for you. So far, I've just repainted his eyes, and I brushed on a varnish coat (ardcoat from citadel). They didn't turn out so well because I used my wife's antiquated cell phone, but they should be good enough to make out what I did. The eye sculpts on this figure are actually very, very good, but Hasbro's paint app over them alters the look of the eyes considerably. All I did was follow what the eyes in the sculpture, and then I give Hobby the heavy black shadows around his eyes. It's WAY cooler than what Hasbro did with the eyes! At least, I think so. It puts him more "on-model" with his comic book look. Since they really made this figure look very basic, it needs some paint washes and repainting around the eyes to transform the figure a winner.
www.lostonwallace.com/hob01.jpg
www.lostonwallace.com/hob02.jpg
www.lostonwallace.com/hob03.jpg
www.lostonwallace.com/hob04.jpg
And a sketch for you: www.lostonwallace.com/hobgoblinsketch1.jpg
Green Goblin is done! I had to redo his eyes and give him better paint to make myself happy. lol!
www.lostonwallace.com/greengob1.jpg
www.lostonwallace.com/greengob2.jpg
www.lostonwallace.com/greengob3.jpg
Bad idea to try and fix the evil morph head
Yeah it was mostly to see if I COULD do it, which I feel pretty happy with the results overall. With these mods/customs, I prefer to also have an original/untouched version as well so I've ordered a second one during the Hasbro Pulse Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale!
Wow! Morph looks great! That's the way he was meant to look like! Thanks great job!
Thank you so much! I'm really happy with how it turned out!
I bought the stuff you suggested, and it didn't do shit! WTF? I bought a smaller sized bottle. Does that mean anything?
Hey man I'm so sorry for the late reply and also that it didn't work. Since my last video I've learned that the company changed the formula to their product. I actually did reach out to them about it and they responded letting me know that they've gotten a lot of feedback so there is a good chance they'll be reverting the formula back to the old one. In the mean time I've ordered a few more brush cleaners to see if I can find one that will perform the same way. Sorry again!
Its very nice! But the shading on his eyes are part of the character stransformation, not cellshading. You can see it on the animation, those are literally marcs on his eyes as he transform to his evil version.
Thank you! Yeah I understand, but I also feel like his face without the shading looks like him before the transformation which is part of why I wanted to do it. The other reason was just to see if I could do it! haha
cyclops next
Heck yeah! At this rate I'll be doing all of them!
I wouldn't touch the chest, it looks good
Yeah! I'm definitely the type that needs to learn to not fiddle too much. I've learned that if I fiddle too much that I end up messing something up!
Morph was under a spell I apologize buddy morph was under a spell from the sinister that’s why his eyes 👀 were like that
Yeah. Someone had asked about removing the paint around the eyes so I figured I'd give it a shot.
You had me till you messed with the face. That was a bad bad idea. All in all, a very informative video thank you for making it
Haha yeah I hear ya! I only did it because someone had asked about doing it, but also to see if I could do it! I'm definitely still an amateur at this but think I'm getting just a little better with every mod that I do!
No that’s not a great job it’s terrible you no nothing about the hobby you spend hard earn money on lol 😂
Well it's a hobby and i think everyone is free to enjoy their hobby how they see fit especially if it's their own money. Personally I really like the cel shading.
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Real 90’s xmen fans gonna appreciate the cel shading 🥱
I actually really like the cel shading, but I've seen people want to remove the cel shading so I figured I'd give it a shot to see if I can do it. That's why I get two of each figure so I can still have one with the shading!