I am on a Mac too ...That shouldn't be too much of a problem. And I haven't seen any laced up military style boots except those old ones from the Lara Croft figure but the they are props and don't bend. As far as the shirt .. Not sure what to tell you. I still have to do some work on it but the one time I trid to fake it it was a little more awkward than the Victoria exchange. It seems to me that you could do a fairly easy parenting of the figure to another figure scaled at about 102 ... and then hide most of the parts. The only thing with doing that is the file would be huge. You could also edit the figure with cr2 thingies and make just the shirt based off of Michael but I don't know how to do that. Good luck and don't give up .. The figure is looking good so far :)