I think all are the Korean version... Gotten this a long time ago, and recently decided to change the belt-strap using a (couple of) 3rd Party CSM Zero-One Driver belt-strap. Yes, have to cut and join extra length of another belt-strap as my waist too fat. Luckily superglue can be used, and most gaps filled up with bits from cutting the belt-strap.
With that in mind, I also decided to put some paint onto the remaining DX Faiz Gear that I have to make them look more closer to show or the CSM version. Not easy, considering the rubbery plastics cannot be painted, and the black acrylic paint also peels super easily off the plastic surfaces. But finally done, not perfect, but close enough for me.
Have since ordered a big suitcase to put in the huge Faiz Driver...
*** EDIT: I had forgotten to take pictures of the DX Faiz Axel's touch up with silver paint for the "screws" on the watch, which the CSM version has.
Thought of a lot of ways to attach the beltstrap, including removable methods... in the end have to settle for the usual fixed type... Used cable-ties to secure the belt-strap to the original belt-strap parts, after drilling 2 small holes on each of the part...
Next, I painted the detailing lines and areas black with acrylic paint and a super small nail brush... Tough...
Also sprayed the phone collector part to silver at the exterior sides, similar to the CSM version...
Assembling the pieces together... Looks good...
Continue to paint the DX Faiz Phone's Mission Memory, and also painted the antenna to silver except for a hole on the face of tip...
Looks good....
Proceeded to touch up for the DX Faiz Pointer... The front chromed part is a replacement from a recently bought one, as the old one was terribly defaced after spraying it with chrome silver paint...
For the side buckles, I made a U shape piece to "clip" onto each side buckle. The velcro straps are taken from the spare 3rd Party CSM Belt-straps ...
Red paper covered with strips of transparent sticky tape is attached to the "pipes" area using double-sided tape. Did not last long, am going to try to use the Daiso plastic (contact) glue tomorrow to try to stick them securely... Hope it works...
End results look not bad!!! The CSM Faiz Gear is way too expensive, so this set will make a good stand-in...
Next modification will likely be doing either the form-light-colour modification for the Arcle Belt, or start on the Typhoon Belt Project...
Cost RMB 88, excluding local and international shipping... This is the latest bootleg version 6 of the Kamen Rider Double / W 's DX Double Driver. Summary of this bootleg as follow: (1) Plastic used for the Driver is a bit softer. (2) Plastic used for the strap is super soft/flexible. Good for long term use, but they don't join together that well (3) Gold tips on both driver units and Silver tips on both Gaia Memories (4) Finally has correct and more toy-accurate Cyclone and Joker Memories in terms of appearance and sounds (though is fake-interactions with the Driver and Maximum Slot). Memories are almost like the enhanced shokugan (candy toy) versions of Gaia Memories. (5) Unpainted light box at bottom of Driver seem to make the different colour lights appear opposite. (6) Same as previous versions, this bootleg also excludes the pins to activate the DX Memories' henshin sound and Maximum Drive sounds. Have since added a piece on the Maximum Slot to restore this function, see blog picture.
A very nice bootleg. And I probably will replace the belt strap with the 3rd party CSM Decadriver Beltstrap. Or maybe not.
Opps, forget to remove the white velcro pieces at the back of the main piece... Because my fat tummy cannot wear the Legend Henshin Arcle Belt, I decided to get a 3rd-party CSM beltstrap to attach to this Arcle Belt, and tried a LOT of different ways of attaching before finalizing on this method...
Phase 1 of this modification also includes painting up the front and sides to look more show accurate. However, things went very wrong while spraying lacquer, as my bottle of lacquer spray had become too concentrated and damaged the sprayed-silver side buckles; stupidly painted PVA glue over the resprayed side-buckles to realised that it makes acrylic painting (on the ancient words and Kuuga logo) extremely difficult and ugly... anyway, have ordered another Arcle Belt to redo the side buckles, hopefully this time will turn out better...
Phase 2 will be the adding of the various colour lights to shine through the main window cover for Kuuga's various forms... May take some time as I had not yet bought the LEDs and such, and also mainly because still working on the DX-turn-CSM Faiz Gear...
