Completed work - Applied Reprolabels: link - Modded away left arm cannon floppiness: link - Gatchaman's arm kibble mod: here and here - Knee mod: here and here - Added Chrome Foil: Post #2 - Installed Unknown Factory Originals smokestacks: Post #8 - Installed LEDs in FWI cannons: Post #12 Future work - Paint robot mode
Chrome Foil I applied some chrome (tutorial) to my leader Ironhide. As you can see, there were some spots that worked out better than others...
this is pretty sweet. gotta check out that arm kibble fix, since I plan on getting a leader ironhide...not too confident in my custom abilities, but stuff like this makes me wanna try it lol. Gonna paint the legs eventually?
nice hthrun! notice that when applied some paint details on certain areas, the figure looks better...and i mean waaaaay better!
Thanks! I love that sig Thanks Ryu! Yeah, I think leader Optimus and the deluxe Bumblebees probably have the most details that can be brought out with some paint...
Installed LEDs in FWI cannons Big thanks to Matt from RED for supplying me with the switches and thanks to everyone who gave me advise! I included pics of the insides of the cannons and a pic of the back so you can see where the switches are. I made sure the cannons can still be held in IH's fists...
Sorry for the resurrection of an old thread, but I just got FWI-2 and want to put LEDs in the cannons. Did you use resitors on those LEDs? Can't see any in the pics.
Don't worry, I'd resurrect this thread anyway after I do some painting Nope, I didn't use any resistors. I recently had to fix what I had done because the batteries and connections were coming loose. I used some battery holders from Happy Meal toys this time. Hopefully he's solid for me now...
Ah, great thanks. I guess the battery power is low enough resistors weren't necessary. One other, did you take the screws out of the end of the guns to put the LEDs in, or put them off to the side?
Great job on Ironhide but don't forget to get the hands off of shapeways for him ,keep up the great work .
Yeah, the LEDs aren't overly bright with these batteries. In my rework I used a holder with bigger batteries and the LED did get too bright, so I replaced it with the same size batteries shown here. I took those screws out completely and put the LEDs in their place. I can't recall for sure, but I think I may have had to drill the holes bigger... Thanks! I'm not planning to get the Shapeways hands, at least not at this point. As long as he can hold Mech Tech weapons I'm happy
