Hi everyone. I'm working on my first ever custom project, specifically I'm trying to do a head swap between rotf deluxe class soundwave, and the walmart exclusive dotm bumblebee based on the camaro concept mold. I thought it might be nice to have my own version of dotm soundwave, but I've reached an impass with the most important part, the actual head swap. The ball joint between the two bodies seems compatible enough, but either the peg isn't long enough on the bee body, or there is extra plastic around the socket on soundwave's head. Either way the figures don't want to cooperate.
I was thinking of maybe sanding away the plastic on the head or the plastic away from around the ball peg on the bee body. But my issue is that I'm afraid of sanding the plastic on the head lest I ruin the ball socket, and I'm also worried about sanding around the peg as the peg isn't static and on its own back and forth joint. Coincidentally the plastic that connects the peg to the pin joint is what I need to shave, and if that snaps the body is ruined, and if the socket on the soundwave head is wrecked the head becomes useless.
At one point I also thought about cutting the longer ball peg off of soundwave and gluing it to bee's body, but I thought that would be drastic, and would probably ruin both figures if it doesn't work.
So my question is what do you all think? This idea is actually based off of a custom I saw done by Gabstaify see it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZo29okh0c, only I'm trying to keep the transformation intact. It looks from the video that the peg or the space around it was altered somehow, but I can't place it. Any advice would be great.