Real Gear Booster-beak, with neck articulation!

Ditto! You just made my day with this mod. Can't wait for the tutorial so my Booster-beak can actually look anywhere other than straight ahead. Thanks dude!

AWESOME!

*runs out to buy Boosterbeak*

You're welcome SMOG, I was being creative one day and started collecting these plastic coating bendy wire and use to create a character from an old PS2 game, War of the monsters, the character was a Kineticlops, in which its a entity with one eye and the body is made from electricity. Unfortuately I dissmantle it cause I was having so much fun with it. But anyways when I get the chance to buy booster I'll use this hint, Thanks Smoggy.

Ditto. I'm not quite clear on how you did that, but I'm rather intrigued!

Heh... I forgot that a lot of folks don't already have this figure, so my description could be a bit ambiguous.

It's really pretty straightforward... This is what he looks like with his neck fully collapsed. This is how he is out of the package. His head and neck are 2 separate pieces that simply peg into each other and then into the body, so a lot of the work is already done. You can see here that the elastic runs through the neck.

Now that I've pulled the neck out of it's pegged-in position, you can see the elastic better. I drilled a hole clear through the neck, from the peg that goes into the body, to the socket for the head.

Next I drilled a hole in the head's peg too. I fed the elastic through all the sections, and knotted it inside the hollow of the head so it would be anchored.

Then I knotted it on the other end and anchored it inside the body by loosening a screw and screwing it tight again with the elastic clamped inside. Now the whole neck area is strung through, body to head.


This way, when you unpeg the neck, it all stays together. The tension from the elastic pulls the pieces taut against each other. I also notched each peg with a file. These notches act as guides for the elastic, so when you bend the neck at an angle, it tends to stay in place.



I hope these pictures help make it clear, but feel free to ask questions...

zmog

wow thats a huge improve ment and im suprised how easy it sounds to do

It's so easy a caveman can do it. My bad, but hey this hint will help some of us with that problem.

To be fair, it's simple, but it's not that easy.

Not only is it really only feasible with a drill tool, also I confess I spent a surprisingly long time fiddling with the elastic and trying to get it threaded and knotted in the right places. I suggest that you guys try it with the wire. I suspect that will be a lot faster and more effective.

zmog

Very nice work! I don't have him yet but I may try that when I pick him up, depends on how brave I feel that evening!

The elastic is a genius solution!