Repaint and some upgrades. Neck and towers extension (on the towers I used the original feet supports to make the cannons bigger), new feet and thrusters, connector piece for principal tower/canon, color changes and little extra missiles inside wing cavities, no invasive modifications for upgrade parts except for an small hole in the base of the neck, wings are internal plates cutted and reposicionated. I did all extra parts with building bloks and will upload extra photos of prototypes and some of the process so everyone could do it self. Finally, I added two extra drones with little modification, one with missiles, the other with a cargo claw, they come in some Gundam Mechanical Chain Bases. At the end, my Trypticon is now 56.5cm height. And all begun with this: This is the original prove of concept: Here photos for reference and some of the process, I upload as many as tfw2005 permit me:
I usually resent lego for it's obvious nature and fragility in customization, but this is one of those rare exceptions. This looks Stellar! I didn't even register it as lego at first.
I totally understand you. Thanks to works that I've done to my Gundams I've learn how to customize bloks for make them more cohesive in desings and less fragile.
I'm glad you like it. I used Abro spray paint black mate and metallic green for body, yellow for head eyes, red for tail eyes, Sharpie permanent markers golden, silver and bronze for pistons and other details and on Full-Tilt's gun Staedtler metallic blue for cams detail.
I like that they're shoes he can take off if you want to go back to stock. That paint job is really slick too, really makes him feel more G1.
Hands down the best custom TR Trypticon I have had the pleasure of gracing my eyeballs with its presence, in the colours he should’ve come with with his Legends release. Just how stable is this guy with all of those lego?, hot damn.
I don't rate the neck too highly but the feet are an absolute game changer, holy shit dude, revelation. How tf designers keep mis-identifying how bird legs work is beyond me, but thanks for doing this.
Thank you so much for your words, I'm glad people like the custom. About stability, it's fine, no crazy posses but the original ankles are there and the new joint are made with Mega Bloks ratchet pieces that are very strong. Originally was enough with the pieces by them self but I glued some for more support, specially the union between original feet and new ones (the shoes as CyberDragon10k says, hehe).
