Modifying Friends Heads

[Darkdragon]

I'm needing more than one male head style for Friends minidolls. Well, the problem is that there is only one male minidoll (so far, right TLG?). So instead of having clones, I decided to do some slight print modifications to the heads to make them slightly different. The first one I did tonight is to remove the beard.

Now anyone who has minidolls may have noticed that the shape of the heads makes them a bit difficult to pick up. At least for me, they fly out from between my fingers and roll all over the place. To rectify this situation, I decided to create a jig to hold the head. It worked really well, so I figured I'd share it with you all. If you try it yourself, let me know how it works out for you!

Started with this

Here's the final product

To set up the jig, the top is removed...

Slide the head onto the bottom support...

Replace the top...

Slide the head up until it clicks.

Here are the parts used. The palisade brick is important because of the curve of the head, you need that indent.

Here's what it looks like from the back before putting the plate on.

[LuxorV]

Nice technique, darkdragon.

Thanks for sharing it.

[purpleparadox]

That's a really interesting jig you built! Personally, I have no problem holding Friends heads, but I know this'll help a lot of customizers somewhere down the road.

[idunno101]

great job on solving a problem with lego bricks :) instead of buying some giant $20 piece of metal contraption

[Praiter Yed]

Good idea with the jig. The face looks really young without the beard - very effective

[CM4Sci]

Wow that's... that's really creative o.O

I think if you change the dark grey plate to a tile, it'd fit better. Never mind ._.

Nice work!

EDIT: 502nd post! What was my 500th?! D:

-Sci

Edited August 7, 2012 by CM4S

[Darkdragon]

Thanks for the comments everyone. Glad you are finding the information useful.

I think if you change the dark grey plate to a tile, it'd fit better.

Actually no, it leaves a stud-height gap. It fits very well like it is now actually. For a perfect snug fit, I'd only need to remove the logo from the top of the studs. The logo is not very high, but when two are hitting each other it is enough to make it not quite snug fit.