WOW such amazing pics everyone!! This has to be one of the most photogenic figures yet! And maybe not just because she's a girl, honest! The more I see these great pics from all angles and get a 3D sense of it's proportions, the more the chest looks just fine to me. Certainly it cements the opinion I've always had that the peak of her chest is not too low or 'saggy' at all. @Phamduc's overlay with the animation model shows that even better - in fact she's 'perky'! It's just an illusion created by the shape of the upper chest and collar area that is a bit off. Having said that I do like this... Just because it looks so much more model accurate. Got a few questions @Blingotron if that's OK. In your 'first pressing' it's clear the thickness of the hood panel and the rotating symbol get in the way of a more accurately shaped chest. I always thought that would be the case, and that the ultimate remedy would have to include shaving the edge of the hood panel to more of a point and possibly removing the rotating symbol. But in your final attempt it somehow looks like you could rise straight up from the peak towards the collar area. Did you actually shave the edge of the hood panel, or is it a case of looks being deceptive, and you do actually have a step in giving clearance for the panel edge, then you can begin to rise up towards the collar? Do you think shaving the hood panel would help? Also, what exactly causes the need for the collar gap - is it the collar piece itself or is it something that also might be able to be shaved to help without being visible in any mode? Looks good anyway! Just goes to show they could have made it more model accurate, but seems this was quite deliberate. Ah well. Eww! No! that's a mess imho. This again further confirms to me the peak of the chest was never too low to start with. In addition to filling in the upper chest he's raised the line of the peak a few mm and it's now right under her armpits! Starting to look more like male pecs than female bewbs. That together with the off-model roundedness just makes this look all kind of wrong to me. Blingo has it better imho. Yes and they have taken their time to give me the shipping quote, but finally have it today!
Wow, this looks much better. I really like the figure, but your improvement to the chest would make it even better IMO. I really hope a 3rd party manufacturer makes an upgrade part like this.
Just noticed last night that her shoulders have an upward movement. Together with the forward butterfly movement, this gives her incredible range and I wanted to find a pose that would use it. I'm still working on my replacement face but I gotta say the stock face is really growing on me. Doesn't look nearly as freakish to my eye as it did before getting the figure in hand. Still, the nose is so skinny and I've always loved Arcee's cheek ridges, so I'm'a keep plucking away at it.
I'm sure there will be that percentage that claims to hate the fig... ...but can't wait to buy the "KO". Exact same gahddamn mold. And after acquiring a HasTak mold for a HasTak character that belongs to a HasTak IP, claim they got the KO because "HaaAAzzzTaAAaaK SuuUUucks, duh KaaAaAyy-OhhHhhhHH is bEddErrrr". So counterproductive.
Anyone else's lower ab ball joint loose to almost being useless? The upper one is ridiculously tight. The lower one works decently enough for side to side rocking, but forward movement just flops back and forth.
I wouldn't be surprised to see one. If not, those with 3D printers... ...there might be some side money out there!
Same here. I almost thought it was on an internal rubber band at first with the way it flopped backward (due to gravity in the end). I haven't tried doing anything to tighten the forward/back motion.
For those that have FT Rouge and are replacing her with MP-51, I’ve found that FT Rouge looks pretty decent next to MP-09 Rodimus.
I actually wondered if it was supposed to be a forward ab crunch due to backpack. That's a lot of weight and barring a ratchet the usual forward ab crunch wouldn't work that great.
I didn't shave anything at all and everything on Arcee is and was intact for the final shape. I just had to make sure the slope of the chest was shallow enough to not interfere with the lower edge of the hood and the flippable symbol. So all i did was reshape the clay until it could all fit under the hood without disturbing the clay. That's where i was in the final shots. The collar gap was caused by the collar itself. When i went to flip the chest piece up and tuck her head through for transformation the collar pushed on the clay and created the gap. There was nothing i could do about it and everything i tried to stop it failed. I'm not sure it would be possible to eliminate the gap the way i did it just because of how the chest piece folds up against the collar. I'll try to redo it later and attempt to eliminate the gap. I just worry that with the amount of clay i'd have to remove it might make the rest pointless. So i'll try in a little bit. If it looks okay i'll upload pictures.
