I keep coming back to this guy because he is one of my favorite Transformer characters ever, and be cause the figure was never quite cutting the mustard IMO. The next to last pic shows the old alterations to bot mode. I didn't add anything new to that but figured some may want to see the robot mode since It was a good while back when I posted it here. Last pic is the stock figure. This time around I concentrated on the Raptor mode. After AoE there seems to have been a renewed dinosaur love boom. The recent game called Ark and new Jurassic World movie made me look at my Dinobot's raptor mode with a bit less satisfaction lately... I cut both of his tiny baby T-rex arms off and made them almost twice as long. Mistransformed the arms and shaved things down/resculpted parts to get rid of the ugly bot mode claws on the raptor chest. Now the unsightly bits are mostly between his legs, just like with people! I cut off the inaccurate extra robot hands so the claw hands could fold over the stubs and hide away better in raptor mode. I never used them anyway. Removed the protruding neck hinge with flap that covered the bot head, and instead made it so if you turn the robot head around for alt mode the back of his head becomes part of the raptor neck. As usual with my own personal figures this was a bit rushed because I have commissions to do. I mostly only do my own things in between commissions or when commission work is drying. Still, hope you guys get the idea and like it.
I used green stuff to get the basic extension and shape with an elbow and all, then went back over that with a few tiny balls of smoothed out Apoxie sculpt to give the arms some muscle, shape, and blend the seams. Would have actually made them even bigger but I worried the claws would start to look too small if I did.
Damn fine work bro! Hasbro really should have done a better job with this figure. I always hated it...but you have made it a 100 times more impressive. Beautiful!
Oh ok cool. I keep reading about people using this "green stuff" and it seems like it works for everything. Keep up the work!
Well not really. I only use it when I need a part to be bendy and not so rock hard it could break easily. It is harder to smooth over and doesn't blend seamlessly to surfaces, which is where the apoxie sculpt over it came into play. Thank you!!
looks nice, but what would truly have made this mold (the takara version anyways) a lot better would've been a more accurate raptor head. had they made the head more accurate i think the figure would've seemed quite a bit better. anyways, this looks great, especially compared to the hasbro version.
