This statue arrived damaged! Can I repair it? (Iron Studios Jabba the Hutt Statue Restoration) 

Your ability to color match is the most impressive part of this whole video

I love items like this ,there’s many that just give up and get rid of it ,but collectors like you and me see opportunity to repair and personalize it makes for fun.

The fact that this finished model looks better than the original is crazyyy, nice job man! 🤯

You did an incredible job not only repairing the statue, but improving on the frog bowl too! Over the years I've had to repair items that have arrived damaged. It's obviously annoying to open a box and find the item staring up at you like a wounded soldier. But I must admit, there is a certain amount of pride that comes from fixing and sometimes even improving the item. I use Milliput all the time for fixing things and sculpting also. It's a bit messy, but it's a great product.

This is the best flip I've ever seen!

Great restoration. Sorry it was damaged so badly. Great repair on Crumb too. Nice work on making Jabba look more vibrant and less pale. Jabba is often a high priced statue/figure, I hope they bring out more versions at lower prices in the future. Thanks.

Amazing work and I personally think you did awesome job fixing the throne itself. It looks like it belongs there. Amazing work.

I'm quite envious of this project as it looks like it was a lot of fun to repair and repaint. The end result is simply stunning! You didn't add too much to the original model but what you did really made this look 100 times better than what Iron Studios presented.

Came out a lot better than I expected

Came out way better than the release version. Awesome!

This is so incredibly impressive! Even more than Boushh did when they dealt with the Mighty Jabba 😉

Very nicely done. Like that you took it to another level. With the frog bowl. And the throne looks amazing.

Well done on the work you did, I normally make a cardboard back wall so when you add the milliput in don’t fall into the model. Paint work was spot on.

All your work looks FANTASTIC!!!!! Great job, sir!

Weird little tip for fogged up translucents, use some windex/glass cleaner, works like a charm

Fantastic work! You really breathed new life into the statue!

Dude you did an AMAZING Job fixing this! of course i would have modeled the parts in Zbrush or Blender, that way you could have given them Texture and stuff, but for using Tinkercad they came out looking great!

Honestly it's probably almost worth swapping in this jabba and the rail into your intact statue since they look that much better!

This is fantastic. Better than the original.

Nice repair, thanks for showing some of your techniques!

It looks so much better. I've got a similar jigsaw to put together of a MrT ceramic money box I sold on eBay. The only difference was, I think I packed it perfectly but the courier I used did a bit of a Jim Carrey delivery at the start of Ace Ventura. It is still wrapped up from when I received it back in pieces so it will all still be in there. Your video has encouraged me to have a go at it. I might try and put some milliput on the inside first so I have something to support the pieces to stop them falling inside. Maybe I should do a better paint job on it too.

Amazing job

Excellent job. Your painting really has come along. I have also purchased damaged model kits and collectables and done similar redo’s. you are one of my fav’s on RU-vid 😊

Fantastic restoration!

This was amazing. The statue is beautiful!

That was an awesome save. I would've done a lot of the work differently. Always enjoyed your channel. My son and I are huge jabba and Bib fans

Talented man with the 3d designing

Absolutely incredible!

Amazing work. Lots of useful tips and fantastic results.

What an opportunity for an artist! How cool that you found one so cheap to have a blank canvas to do it your way….the bad beginning gave you a challenge you surpassed and a fun video my family enjoyed…Excellent work as always, exalted one….

Great job and video, MJC!

Hello, love your collection and work!! I did repair the first release jabba from the 90s the large piece made of foam!!!

Use a tooth brush to get pitted texture it helps nice job jabba

Wow! Looks awesome! Great job!

Very good work! Most Impressive!

AMAZING job!! Congrats 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Jeez. Amazing job.

Great job. I really enjoyed that.

what a shame it arrived broken.. but it was a blessing as your personal touches made it more awesome!!

Turned out really nice. Good job. I got a Wonder Woman Bombshells original statue for a song cuz it had a massive chip in the back of the hair and with a little two-part epoxy putty was able to fix it right up. Always great when you have the ability/knowhow/skill to save something from the bin where it might eventually end up cuz it got broken somewhere along the way. Again, very nice work sir, love the frogs!

Great job! Man, your videos are SOO satisfying!

Nice work!

Who the heck buys a delicate $500 collectible and lets toddlers use it as a lawn toy?!? Great job on repairing & improving this damaged statue.

Nice work

Toypolloi level of fixing, very nice!

I would never had known that you made any repairs if I hadn't watched you do it. Looks perfect.

My Gosh you made it look better then the original! Amazing job. I'm so glad I found your channel again and Subscribed :) Looking forward to seeing more new videos 👍

Its a dream item for any Jabba fan, I think you did a mighty fine repair and repaint job!

I wish I had the talent to do this kind of thing.

Brother the hookah came out awesome good job

Absolutely wonderful work, that hole repair came out spotless😮

Looks fantastic, and a really great explanation of the work involved. Thanks!

Whenever you do a 3d modeling video, I'm always so jealous of your painting skills! I don't do 3d modeling myself, but I have some kits for miniatures, and I'd be ecstatic if you did a more in-depth painting video (plus using milliput and stuff like that).

Bravo

Glad I saved this video for a time when I could enjoy it. 3D printing is just amazing, and I'm impressed with how you utilized it. The repaint of Jabba was excellent, will he replace your original one in your display? Sideshow had some major discounts for Black Friday, and I took the plunge on their sixth scale Jabba, your review of Sideshow's Jabba is why I subscribed to your channel!

What an awesome video! It turned out amazing

*receives broken item* Everyone Else: "Where is my refund? D:" Mighty Jabba: *Fixes it and makes it better than the original product*

where you not tempted to foam back fill the base? ....so many different dry wall hole repair ideas also come to mind (creating a stable under structure to build on)

I just recently bought this statue and it thankfully came intact. For starters I absolutely love the work you did on it, starting from the repair and replacements, especially redoing the frog bowl! Something so relatively easy, yet made it look so more accurate. It makes you think how easy the manufacturers could of done the same, but went the super cheap route just to make more profit. My main reason I'm writing is for some painting advice. I want to simulate as best as I can what you did with Jabba. I don't own an airbrush anymore and actually want to use basic brushes, so could you describe what paints I would need and the process you used with a bit more explanation? Thank you.

Awesome video! I was wondering what glue was used? The foot of my iron studios wasp snapped off and I need to repair but wasn't sure what glue was best. Thanks in advance!.

Way to nice about it E 600 Some mullipit should work for missing items? 🤣🤣🤣called it Good job

Geniooo

Impressive fix 👍

you shouldve built the corner piece seperate and THEN glued it in place as one piece

Got a couple iron studios… and I’m not impressed by any of their stuff.

I can't believe you just gave up and puttied it over with all those extra pieces leftover.

I think the dude was annoyed that it only sold for 99 dollars so he was salty and didn't want to put much effort into packaging the statue