wow my friend, you have chosen one of my fave autobots to do,your styrene skills are fantastic, this is scratch building at its best, will be following this one all the best colin
LOST IN WORDS!!! Dit wordt zo enorm gaaf! (translates from Dutch: This is gonna be extremely awesome!) THNX FOR SHARING, I ALREADY KNOW THIS GONNA BE STICKIED!!!!!
QFT. I've been working on an MP Prowl, completely scratch built, after seeing your Skids, but it looks like the master has beat me to the punch again! I'm not transforming the legs in exactly the same way though, mine is more like the Classics version so he has real feet, I couldn't work out how to do it this way. I'm aiming for blocky looking robot, slightly taller than the seeker moulds, how tall are you projecting yours will be Jarrod? Any chance we could see your sketches?
Thanks everyone! Your's sounds really cool too, can't wait to see it! He'll be right around Seeker height...maybe a head shorter. As for the skectches....see the first thumbnail in the first post? That's it! Like I said, very rough....and although the upper part is obscured, its just some rectangle's drawn in to estimate how much room the legs and waist will take up in car mode.
I`ve actually failed at two 240z re-shells already so it`ll be nice to see how you`re gonna tackle this. I like your points you made about the generic Gundam parts you use as I`ve never used them because they typically look too..... Gundamy. It seems you`ve found a Gundam that meets Transformer level criteria IMO especially considering how great your MP Jazz was.
Got a good chunk of work done yesterday! I've built up the second lower leg, identical to the first. I've temporarily glued the two rear car halve together so I can gauge where the legs will, and how I'll need to attach the feet. After a few ideas that didn't pan out, I finally decided on a working idea of how to attach the feet, while still retaining a decent range of articulation. I'm using the Gundam's foot and ankle parts. The ankle is a stiff, unhindered ball joint, and the foot features a great "toe" articulation piece I'm going to repurpose. I've cut the ball off and cut away some extra of the foot. Now, I'm going to attach the toe part of the foot to the rear of car. There are four pegs on the bottom of the foot part, so I measure out and drill four holes into the car piece. Then I glue the pegs into the holes. The old toe articulation joint will now become the transformation joint, while the ball joint will provide the same ankle articulation. To attach the ball to the leg, I'm going to embed it into a piece of styrene. This will add better stability than simply gluing it on. I start by drilling a hole in some styrene with the largest bit I have. Then I use my round file to open the hole more, and when that's still not enough, switch to my wider half-round file and spin it in the hole until it is the correct size. After that, the ball is simply glued into the hole. The styrene is cut mostly to shape (leaving a bit extra just in case), glued to the lower leg, and then I pop the foot piece on. Here's a better shot of both feet attached, and after trimming the excess styrene And with some of the other car parts set on. Finally, the legs transformed. The tire is simply set in.
OMG!!! I can't help looking at your tutorial/ wip pics. Simply amazing!! You really give us noobs something to aspire to. Well, me at least.
Finally!!! An in depth thread on how to customize, step by step! Been looking for a decent one for a long time. Hope this will be one off many, keep it up Jarrod. As for the custom, already looks great, are you planning to do a little interior as well? Maybe you can make the front seats fold to turn them in the side panels (now blue from Gundam)? Grtz R
Me wants! Me wants! Me wants! Me wants! Since this will be Prowl, what sirens will you be using for it? And will you light them up?
This work is awesome, it's really great to see how you get things done. I see that you're likely to encounter a similar problem to myself, in that the legs are in the way of the rear tyres. I've considered either thinning down the tyres, or making larger wheel arches. Any suggestions?
Glad I could help Yep, there will definitely be an interior....altho I'm thinking now that its gonna be about as much as MP Rodimus. I actually found PERFECT lightbars on ebay! While LEDS would be cool, I don't think I'll have any room left for wires and batteries. Actually, I've considered that already, and made the legs just narrow enough to fit the wheels in, and build a wheel well. The tires won't stick out, but they will be just flush with the outer wall.
