Minor/Repaint: Hand upgrade for voyager Optimus Prime

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  1. Omegaonline

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    Next in the hand upgrade series is the one, the only, Optimus Prime.

    I was expecting this modification to be much tougher but...so far, so good. And, I think he looks the business now.

    On this upgrade, I used a square styrene rod as wrist attachment. If you take apart Prime's forearm, you'll see that his hand swivels around a tube that is built into the wall of one half of the forearm. I basically took a rectangular section of the square rod, drilled a hole through it, in the longer side near one end, and slipped it onto the tube. That was the swivel sorted.

    To attach the hobby base mechanical hand (round, 1/100), I drilled a hole in the square end at the opposite end of the rectangle to the swivel hole. Inserted the hand and job done.

    I've included a few more pics to try and explain visually.

    As with the previous mods on the other figures, the hands are not painted yet.
     

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    And, how did I do it...
     

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    And both wrist adapters fitted....let's roll.
     

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    Good job, again.
     
  7. Solrac333

    Solrac333 G1 got it right!

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    Dude, you can post all of those pics on one post.
     
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    awesome :cool: 
     
  9. Omegaonline

    Omegaonline Well-Known Member

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    Hi. Sorry about the multi posts. I am posting from an iPad and it only ever lets me upload one picture per post. Don't know why....it always just replaces the first pic with the most recent.
     
  10. bellpeppers

    bellpeppers A Meat Popsicle

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    I'm liking this.
    looks great.