Even though I said I have sort of dropped out of the hobby at the moment, I just wanted to see as an experiment if I could use the spare Dragon Neo 2 bodies I have here spare with these heads. Since I prefer to use the older Dragon bodies for my kitbashes, as I have found them both cheaper to buy, plus also for my purposes they are a lot easier to adapt to get better body shapes and poses. Plus they don’t have the standard 1/6th body shape of a 6 foot, built like a brick out house look to them either.
Body Neck Connectors
Picture left above is the main body I use for my figures which is the older Dragon Neo2 type, the neck connector for this is shown above. In the middle, this is the neck connector for the Figures Home nude body I have, which I bought out of curiosity to see how close it is to the Dragon body. And I found that these are very similar to the older Dragon bodies I have, and with the one I have here as a spare it compares well to it.
The only real difference I have found with the Figures Home body is they don’t have the joint in the foot like the Dragon bodies have, and the leg to hip joints are slightly slack which leads to shelf diving. Although I have found that they are slightly taller at the shoulders, when alongside a Dragon figure. In Picture 3. this is the neck for the DiD body, and with the hard plastic connector I have found that it takes a lot to cut and sand it down to accept the other manufacturers headsculpts.
Fitting a Soldier Story head to various bodies
This page has come about because of my curiosity originally regarding the Soldier Story heads, and if they can be used with a Dragon body?
With the neck connectors being so different on the two bodies, I got to wondering about some neck adapters that I found online, and if these could be used to connect one to the other. One of my main reasons for trying this out is cost, as I have found that some of the complete Soldier Story nude bodies can be expensive, and that is before I even look at the shipping price on them as well. So to go for a cheaper option I went with two of the adapters and a separate Soldier Story head instead.
The pictures above Left and Middle are of the Soldier story head and body connection, Above right, is of the parts for the Headplay short neck adapter which I thought might work with the Soldier Story head on a Dragon body. The picture right, is the inside of the Headplay neck adapter.
In the picture below left, this is where my problems began, because the inside of the neck adapter is not deep enough to sit down fully on the Dragon body, plus as shown in the middle, one end of the double ball joint connector is too big to fit into the base of the Soldier Story head, plus as shown it is also too big to fit into the Headplay adapter as well.
In the picture right, I have turned the double ball joint connector around to show the other end as a smaller ball joint which will fit into the base of the Soldier Story head, but the larger end will not fit into the adapter. Picture 8. shows how the adapter assembles together as designed by Headplay, but as I have mentioned before, to make this fit the Soldier story head as it is, I will have to sand down the upper ball joint to get it to fit.