One thing that helps a little, only a little though. You probably want to use this idea along with leg extensions. But, you can mix the type of parts. example... the older joes had good proportions as far as chest height and leg height. The more recent joes, have a long leg compared to chest. So try to get an older figure chest with newer legs. another thing to try is combining legs. example... one of my storm shadows [ver 17 or 18 (I think)], has long thighs and short calves. This gives the figure the same leg length as the others. So just use SS thighs and another calves. That will give you a little. There is another possibility. I ran into a problem making a figure with one of those action chests, the bottom of the chest is cut flat, but, I wanted it to fit a regular waist which has a little curve to it. So I had to make a sculpy piece to fit the two pieces together. Actually this adds to the chest height. Which I think would go good with long legs. Keeping closer to original proportions. The figure I did this with can be found here.
http://www.joecustoms.com/customs/custo ... &c=nunchukincase the hyperlink doesn't work -
JoeCustoms.com > Group Projects > Alternate Timeframes > Nunchuk
if you have ?'s about this, PM me.