Maketoys MTRM-11 Meteor

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by Shin Densetsu, Jul 18, 2015.

  1. myoung555

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    DX9 Seekers heads/neck we’re super ugly. Sold them off for IF Seekers even though they aren’t G1 looking.
     
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    Well in theory you'd also want to scribe some panel lines on them. And you would have to try and match the Starscream grey/biege, the Tundercracker blue and the Skywarp black, so it's three different colour matches. But yeah, not a huge issue. How heavy is epoxy? cause it's a reasonable chuk of space to be filled.
    ALternatively, if you have a 3D printer there's a .stl file that will allow you to print your own wing fillers (still need to do a colour match) or you could even just use polyfilla, putty or similar to fill the gap - I use a hardware store woodfiller putty designed for use outdoors - it's a kind of polymer, it dries really hard but sands really easily. Fill the gps, scribe and (again) paint.
    There are plenty of options available.

    I've printed some fillers myself for them (haven\';t bothered colour matching yet), but as I'm gettting the Coneheads, I'll probably just wait and bundle the MT wingfillers in with them - a lot of TaoBao sellers re doing package deals for Coneheads and fillers.
     
  3. aledromo

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    Good thinking. I hadn’t considered the weight on what’s already a tricky figure to stand.

    How is the standing with the Official Fillers?
     
  4. pilot00

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    Adds plenty of stability. For the love of me, none of the seekers I have can pose as stable as the KBB conehead trio. And these three b#^&Q#ds have a ton hanging off of them. The only issue I had with them was Dirge losing his front landing gear cover after I forced it.
     
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    Glad you feel that way but I personally didn't find that the diecast added plenty of stability at all. I don't have any problems with stability with my yes model Seekers. I did however have plenty of issues with my KBB Seekers having fragile parts and breaking. But as always your mileage may vary LOL.
     
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    I received my fillers, some pictures:

    EB67C6DE-8B40-4775-9611-C56E85859C92.jpeg 38821984-4E8F-4F50-86FE-363417769DC6.jpeg 2285B8A4-1D44-4F88-BE53-77DADA9AC3E8.jpeg 5E8AAF37-7044-470D-8564-96ED91760FB9.jpeg
    I don’t think they add too much to the figures, I still would have preferred a replacement face with a lighter color for Starscream
     
  7. Bnz Toy

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    I'm surprised YesModel hasn't come along to offer theirs with the lighter face and the wing fillers included.
     
  8. LazyAza

    LazyAza MMC color go brrrr

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    MT just posted the following. Seems all coneheads will be coming with a set of wing fills for each existing seeker at no extra cost.

    So

    Dirge will have Thundercrackers fills.
    Thrust will have Skywarps fills.
    Ramjet will have Starscreams fills.
     
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    I bought them from robotoybase
     
  11. Weezie

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    It might happen. For some reason Maketoys' stuff seems quite prone to getting knocked off, more than say FT or MMC.

    If it does happen, please for the love of God, give him a new head.
     
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    I'm going to get Thrust. But don't have skycrow. Anyone want those fillers when he comes out? Free of charge PM me.
     
  14. edgs2099

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    BBTS has just the fillers up for preorder too.,
     
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    100% agree. I think most of us here would have preferred the fillers to be included in the original shipment. At least the coneheads will. If I find out the coneheads have better heads as well,i may dip into these. However for the original seekers, i'm not going to buy them w/out the fillers and that head.
     
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    I'm using a cast of MP-11's head on my Meteor and I love it. It aint never gonna transform and fit in that tiny space but that aint a big deal to me at all, and if ya also don't care, I'd recommend it.

    Meteor_Mods_sm.jpg

    That and the KFC seeker hands. Which I color matched. And the Jream parts. Just a set of wing fillers left to go and it'll be perfect, and I don't even really care about the wing fillers, but at this point, why not?
     
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    I wonder if the head from MP-44 could be put on Meteor
     
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    I thought about that, because it looks really nice, right??
    I am gonna guess it is too big to use on any actual seeker. But who knows?
     
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    It would look something like this (excuse my shoddy shooping skills)

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    Think that looks great.
     
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