So I was going through my customs folder (where I keep all my pics taken) and whilst planning to retake several photo's notibly for Kili and Bolg with either some updated changes or just to improve photo's, I found this lil gem I completely forgot about. Here's a custom of Legolas from the Hobbit in his first costume. Originally I jsut changed the skirt part to green and Silver material, but then I also extended his legs (swapping them out with Toybiz ones) added the sheaths (cut off any Two Towers Legolas), strung the bow and did bits of repainting. I also have my fellowsip Legolas figure for comparison as you can see he has Orcrist as essentially when he leaves Mirkwood he is wearing very similar gear to his Fellowship costume, so I just took the Two Towers Legolas' sword sheaths belt and added Orcrist to it so he can confiscate it then return it to Thorin as it goes in the film, which is almost as close as Thranduil placing Orcrist on Thorin after he dies as I seem to remember that from the book. I will not that all the Legolas figures are too tall by Toybiz as he is the same height as Aragorn so what I suggest you do (as I have done but possibly not enough) is use hot water to pop out the swivel at the boot joint, take a knife and slice off a section above the peg joint (not just the peg, you'll want a bit of leg so it ends up looking like a flat plunger so it doesn't snap etc). Then sand or cut off a bit below the knee hinge and finally glue the part you cut off back. Essentially what you are going is making hte area between the boot swivel and the knee joint shorter and it makes him a better scale, I highly recomend this method. Anyway, this Legolas is simple but effective, I didn't swap the boots out I jsut painted the Toybiz ones brown with the gold decorations and I also swapped out his hands with some Toybiz legolas hands (again using heat and possibly swapping the pegs in the same way as leg shortening) as they hold the weapns better and are a better size unlike his freakishly small hands which I then used on my Bofur custom.

So yeah this is a better version than the one we got as he needed sheaths, a bow string, to be taller, be able to hold his weapoons and move his legs not hindered by plastic skirts.