Customs: Shapeways idea challenge thread!

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  1. Ellamin

    Ellamin Freedom is the Right of ALL Sentient beings.

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    IDEA! Replacement/upgrade parts for gdo/fe or PRID cliffjumper to make him look like other muscle cars, like a dodge charger for general lee customs, or barracudas etc.
     
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    A movie accurate set of guns for DOTM Deluxe Soundwave or HA Soundwave
     
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    Rotor wheels for GDO Springer, ones that peg into his missle launchers, and others that go into his feet bar between his toes. Also a new rotor that can hold his sword and a spare sword, or a whole new rotor/sword assembly.

    Some new minions for foc Soundwave, in the style of Kamen Riders Hibiki, aka flat disk shape tformers withOUT the stupid automorph function!
     
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    New shoulder pieces for AM Smokescreen! Maaaaybe new hands too, the hands on the mold seem a bit too Knock-Out for Smokescreen.
     
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    a beast wars Megatron head for RID Megatron mold ala unused Botcon
     
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    IDW Fortress MaximusFortress X Conversion/Kit Idea

    Would like to second the suggestion of an IDW Fortress Maximus conversion/kit for the Cybertron Defense Red Alert figure...could even do a Diaclone Fortress X conversion/kit for the Universe Countdown version of the mold...





     
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    I've had that available for months now, minus the main rotor mod. I could do that part but I'm not comfortable making people rip him apart to implement it.
     
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    Cybertron Thundercracker Upgrade Kit

    A gun arm replacement for the cybertron thundercracker mold that could hold the gun/weapon in bot mode and allow for proper transformation would be neat
     
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    Yes, but I'm not looking for all those parts, also looking for more plastic options. And REALLY want a new rotor assembly. I don't need the clips or the gun, I just want two swords that became a rotor, and some wheel blades, one set plug into the missle launchers and the other fit inbetween his toes.
     
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    Out of curiosity I tried taking him apart to get that rotor assembly out. The body is pinned together on both sides of the hips in a way that would be difficult to get it unpinned, and the main rotor is pinned under that green cap.

    It probably be easiest to get the main rotor off by just snapping it off or cutting it, but either way I'm not going to do it. Somebody else is welcome to try it but I don't want to make such drastic mods to my own.
     
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    Articulated 2-fingered (not 2-fingered plus thumb) arms for FoC Voyager class Grimlock!
     
  12. Ellamin

    Ellamin Freedom is the Right of ALL Sentient beings.

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    dino arms? 2 fingered like b9's claws?
     
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    nikinaga Destroyer of Threads

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    random thought, parts that would make the TF: Prime core autobots (Prime, Bulk, Ratchet, Arcee, Bee, and Cliff) a combiner.

    P.S. the first editions
     
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    Maybe a staff and hands for ROTF Voyager Fallen?
     
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    nikinaga Destroyer of Threads

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    Add a poseable head and leg extensions and you have a deal.
     
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    Who or what is b9? :confused: 
     
  17. Ellamin

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    Lost in space robot.
     
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    Oh! :eek: 

    To clarify, I mean't articulated 2-fingered arms for FoC Voyager Grimlock's T-Rex alternate mode!

    A true T-Rex should have 2 fingers! Not 2 fingers and a thumb and not like b9's claws! :inquisiti 
     
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    I posted this idea a while ago, and a couple guys actually expressed interest in making it. But in the end, nothing ever came from it.

    I'll just "quote" my original post...

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    I recently got a SL Supe and a FP upgrade to go with it, and just like I had already seen in many side by side pics, he just doesn't quite see eye to eye with FP Brut.

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    I've seen guys play around with Legos to help semi-mod TF combiners before so I gave it a shot, and came up with this...

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    It doesn't look like much (and to be honest, it isn't), but if you keep the Superion head folded down, and you fold in the chest wings in combined mode...

    From this-

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    To this-

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    There's a nice little cavity there that can be filled to create a new base for a head.

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    I didn't want to take my Superion's head apart yet, so I just put a cylindrical block in its place as a stand in for the head.

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    With this little "boost", Superion can get much closer to Brut's height.

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    And here's a little before an after comparison.

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    I know it does nothing to bulk him up to Brut proportions, but I kinda like that the aerialbots would be a more sleek and streamlined combiner than the combaticons.


    My little "mock up" here doesn't peg in or anything, but I'm hoping that a 3rd party company would be willing to mass produce something like this. Maybe even throw in a new head sculpt and a crotch piece to go with it. Maybe even a shapeways guy could come up with something?
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    Here are a couple of links to the threads I started about this...

    http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/requests/561581-boosting-up-fp-superion.html

    http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans...561280-boosting-up-fp-superion-pic-heavy.html

    There are a few pics of the udated versions that I made, the final one is with a correct Energon Sup's head that I salvaged off of another Silverbolt/Stormjet/Afterburnner mold.

    Hopefully someone would find it doable, because I think it is a great "up-grade" (height-wise) for FP Superion.
     
  20. Ellamin

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    Idea; Replacement parts for figures that have joints that break due to play/posing, like the clear arms, fingers, legs of TFA swindle, or the GPS suffering parts of energon scorponok mold, or other BITS of gps on TFs that are fine otherwise (not full figures/molden in pieces of GPS like randy. g1 skyquake or protoform starscream)