Vintage G.I.Joe Tele-Viper Restoration, including thumb repair - Toy Polloi - Cobra Convergence V 

Fantastic thumb repair.

Just fixed an original cobra officer’s waist using this method. Thanks!!

Good Morning. Congratulations on the video. Here in Brazil, we love the Gi Joe collection, known here as "Comandos em Ação". We also do restoration work, as we can hardly buy new dolls at a fair price. Strong hug!.

Yes cobra convergence the best time of the year on youtube glad you're back to be apart of this

Nice

Here is a neat tip when drilling very small holes. Use a sewing pin to make a small dimple in the plastic before you drill. That will prevent the drill bit from riding. It has a been a life saver for me when I work on model trains.

Superglue mixed with talcon powder or even powdered sugar is also an exelent 'putty' to repair plastic toys (and 3D prints) with. And super easy/cheap to make/source

I actually used your technique for fixing vintage figures by using lego pieces. I cut down a lego piece to repair a Million Dollar Man action figure arm.

Great job on the GI Joe Cobra figures👌👌👌👌👌

Thanks mate! This is exactly what I was looking for to repair some of my figures! Nuff Said!

Excellent video. I have several that need these repairs.

Please Master of the Mystic Toy Arts, show how to fix a broken arm post. (Part that connects the arm to the body). Fantastic video as always.

Awesome fix as usual.

thats it ! Im am going to repair my old broken figures !

Excellent video!

always a great watch, thank you!

Very impressive result

Excellent tips! Thank you!

Great job man

Thanks, good job, looks great!!

Great Video Dave ! I know you've shown these fixes before but I never tire of seeing them and use them quite a lot. Thanks!

So enjoy watching these videos...keep up the great work 👍

Very nice tutorial. Top notch! I’ve just this November started repairing my old GI Joes, so this is excellent stuff. I work with Vallejo colors as well so this is perfect.

Awesome work! Great video!

Those repairs really turned out very nice!

Another awesome way of repairing the broken G.I. Joes

Very helpful Dave, thanks a bunch and have a wonderful weekend!

Great vid!! I actually use the "metal" sharpies all the time for little details on my builds. They also make gold & copper in addition to the silver.

#CobraConvergenceV !!!!! Thank you for teaching us how to save our childhoods from going into a landfill. Keep up the great work.

Excellent as always TP! As a FAN and also as a fellow Content Creator ... So much education.. Its always appreciated.

I just imagine the Toys coming to life like ToyStory. And then just excited to be fixed. You rock

Thanks for the walk though. Covered all the E's Entertaining, Educational and Engaging. Cheers.

Dave the gi joe medic! Always a joy to watch you do these fixes. Cheers!

Fantastic repair! The completed results looked excellent. Thank you for the tip regarding the jewelry tubing. Just brilliant! Another informative and outstanding video!!!

That's awesome! Good to see there's a way of restoring them. I've got a bunch of em that are badly damaged. Great work!

wire for the thumb works great did that on my Indiana Jones figure years ago

The jewellery tubing is something I have never heard of before. Great tip. Thanks.

Gorilla Glue is a really good

Hey Dave I was able to use your fixes a couple of years ago on a GIJoe, thank you again for that. Take care🙂

Nice mend and scult. Youcan just wash off Acrylics while they are wet if you don't like the colour but your match was very good. I have used a silver gel pen from the Works on some of my miniatures painting figures. They are very fine tipped so only really small lines or areas can be done. They are cheap for 3 and you can get gold ones too. Do tend to dry up it seems fairly quickly in the pens themselves but how cheap they are doesn't really matter.

I still need to replace the thumb on my Kenner Indiana Jones figure. Great work again!

Great repairs, Dave! It's always nice to see you go through the steps to repair figures like this. Even if you've done things like this on the channel in the past, it's nice to see you continue to do them for a couple reasons. First, it reminds us of the methods to use if we need to make similar repairs, and secondly, with each action figure problem encountered, there's a chance to see even greater successes than previously seen in past attempts. Personally, I think the thumb repair and paint match here are outstandingly good, and you'd never notice that those pelvis pieces were ever broken to begin with! As these sort of repairs are some of the most common GI JOE action figure repairs that are needed on figures, I think it's great to show videos like this for the benefit of new viewers and old alike. I've really enjoyed the frequency of your most recent videos. It seems like you're getting them out to us at a very swift pace, and I'm enjoying them all! Congratulations on another fantastic video!

I buy a lot of Estrela & Plastirama figures. Anyone that has dealt with those knows how the thumbs break constantly. So this thumb technique is good to know. I use the same silver pen as well to touch up silver on my figures. Great match. The paint for the nose on the tele viper is good to know. Great video.

Thanks for this tutorial, I’m doing a little bit of Joe customising and finding intact crotches on certain figures is proving difficult.

Those paints are pretty nice, I especially like the flesh tone. I just ordered the tools you have in this video. You are a great instructor, cheers mate!

#CobraConvergenceV That said, another great restoration. Keep up the good work 👏

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Great vid. Wish I had this knowledge when I was a kid. #CobraConvergenceV

amazing work as always. What o rings are the best for Joes? Also do you have tips to make loose joints more stiff again?

Have you tried the metallic gold pen for touch ups? It works well for touching up gold paint on figures as well.

You need to look for navy blue that's the color of the figure the problem is it's really hard to paint match a figure from the early 80s and 90s

Awesome stuff as always, I use your techniques often. #cobraconvergencev

Please do cobra viper

As a diehard Joe collector from 1982 to present, this warms my heart. I love seeing these old guys put back into service again. A lot of the Tele-Vipers have the broken crotch and chipped nose. I have a question though: how fragile is the Milliput repair? I'm guessing you don't want to jam a weapon in the hand with the thumb repair, but what about the crotch pieces? How much abuse can the Milliput tolerate before breaking off again? Can the figures sit down and be moved around? Thanks! I might try this on a few of my old junker figures. I'm one of those people who wouldn't dare throw a Joe figure away, even in the roughest shape.

Is there a way to get a back screw out of a gi joe that’s been stripped ????

I need to ask this: would you happen to know the type of spring used on the Battle armor figures? My battle armor He-Man has been gutted for parts for customizing and I wanted to know the spring size. Thanks!

Love watching your repair videos. One question: why didn't you use plastic weld on the guns?

A good figure, but his smug grin always freaked me out a bit. He's probably the lowest paparazzi of all, filming death and destruction, smiling as he does so. Great fix, which is useful on other figures too. Thank you!

How brittle is the milliput when set? Would you risk making the figure hold something in the repaired hand? Great video and contribution to the hobby and collector communities. Thank you.

I really like your tunes on your vids? Your work?

Can you advise on the diameter and thickness of O-ring you use for repair of GI Joe figures?

If doing a restoration and the leg screws are rusted.... Do you think it's safe to soak the whole leg section in vinegar? I have a wet-suit that was obviously in a few water fights and I'm wondering if that will work instead of more aggressive means and/or drilling to replace rotted screws. Just not sure about plastic. Great video as always!

are there any 2nd version of the Tele-Viper ???

Phenomenal job Dave, but I have a question regarding the milliput that you mixed, can you still use that mixture for a later project and for how long does it last? I may need to use some on a project that I have, and I have never used it before.

What is the largest action figure part you recreated using milliput?

I know I'm late to the party being 2023 looking for a tool list on what you're using

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Do you recommend using the same method for fixing the pelvis if you have the original piece?

I cannot find the small vice/drill in the States. Can someone PLEASE help me? The tool doesn’t show up on google.

What's the size of that tiny drill bit?

What is the best glue to bond the GI Joe Plastic, I have the a broken waist that hooked portion broke off. I do have all the pieces. Thanks

The J in Vallejo is silent! >:v

Can you use plastic glue on the crotch if you still have the broken piece?

As always a great watch. Thanks Dave. But there’s something I don’t understand with a lot of restoration RU-vidrs; why do so many of you speed up the actual restoration parts of your restoration videos? You’ll happily talk us through what you’re going to do but then when it comes to the most interesting part of the whole vid, you speed it up. Please don’t, for me personally it’s the entire reason I’m watching and it’s very frustrating to see the best part whizzed through like it doesn’t matter. Other than that, keep up the good work

Is that Milliput in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

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Hello Toy Polloi, Pardon my me for asking this, I prefer not to make requests for content even if I were a Patron (Which while I'm not yet, I may just become one on the first. Kinda broke till then on anything not essential you see.) but would it be possible for you to do a paint mixing 101 video series? As I am making figurines for my shop, Dash Terrier Props and More I am finding it hard to get the mixing of Acrylic paint working right. So far my props have had mostly standard coloring or are varnished (A primary type of prop I do is Pottermore Wands, wood carving is less paint heavy after all, inlays and inks work for those best) but I am making figurines as well as future prop projects needing good color matching on painting. I see how easy you make it look, I thought I'd ask and see if you have any tips, I can't seem to keep mine when using Card, towels or the like wet they dry like they had nothing but pigment in them. Anyway hope all is well for you I know you're all locked down in the UK and I hope that soon passes, glad we are slowly getting vaccines for that stupid viral and hopefully life gets back to normal soon especially for you guys in the UK, and Brazil. Terrible thing that strain they got a few great friends of mine come from both regions and I worry about them like brothers. Sorry got a bit rambly there, heh I talk a lot and sometimes it seems disconnected. But it does have some common things to it. Anyway yeah if you could even recommend a good guide to paint mixing for beginners that would be great, I got a lot to make and if I want it to look good I need painting lessons Beyond just buying batches of premixed colors (Which a few colors I am, just because I know I'll need lots of those colors So or Blue and Rebecca Purple for example.) Thanks and again stay safe.

How much do you charge to do the crotch work?

Come here to see the original repair video. you're better off using green stuff (kneadatite) not milliput to sculpt with, it has better sculpting properties, and a stronger more plastic finish.

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No, no, no... The sculpting is for sculptors. The fun part is discovering the solution to the problem. The moment you devise how to do it, that's where the real fun lies. Or, maybe that's just me...

Surprised the thumb was the hardest part, not the pelvis…

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