Heavy/Scratch: VHS "Ravage" begins...

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  1. dragonflye18

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    Do you have plans for soundwave?
     
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    If he does, it better be a vcr. A sound blaster could even be done with the old go video dual vcr 6607C3C6-2F04-4CCA-8544-049E66032F0E.jpeg I only know of it’s existence cuz my parents had one.
     
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    That would be sick as Soundblaster. Make me think of the old 90s TVs with the built in VCR slots though...
     
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    So are you going to mount the legs to the reel/gear inside the cassette? If you use the internal parts (reel/gears) of the cassette I would imagine you could connect them both and use them as a structure to build off of. Like the cassette tape is a shell that just fits over the whole thing. Maybe even use a sliding mechanism between them so you could expand/lengthen the whole figure for transformation. Just a thought.
     
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    VCRs aren't THAT old are they? I mean I'm 24 and I used to use them as a kid.
     
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    What we recognize today as vhs was born in 1977. 2007 they were basically retired altogether. 2016 is when vcrs officially died (out of production completely).
     
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    The old top load models would be awesome. More buttons and doodads to play with.
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  9. KINGBOTZ

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    Oh definitely, that's eventually-inevitable.....Been brainstorming that concept ever since I started Laserbeak a couple years ago, really had to think on that one for a while to figure-out what was practical.....ended-up with a base for it that you wouldn't quite expect.....

    Yeah, the initial-plan to do a VCR-Soundwave was to just find and butcher an old top-loader VCR, late-70s/early-80s, but after seeing how hard it is to find them without paying a fortune for it was just impractical.....so I found a better-solution......an early-90s tape-rewinder with a centered eject-button, and transparent pop-up deck. ;) 

    The legs will definitely have to take some pieces of the tape-reels with them during transformation so all that isn't hanging-around in cat-mode, wouldn't look right......And all-four legs will actually mount and pivot off the main-torso, not the reels themselves, with the design I have in-mind......Just not sure yet exactly how much of the reels will remain stationary once the legs come-out, but be assured I'll distribute all parts as evenly & practically as the circumstances will let me to get the best aesthetics in cat-mode as possible.....it's been a major-headache so-far just getting that front-leg to work and look-decent while packing working-hardware into a 3/8" space.....but the back-legs will be worse, for the allocation of the pivot-points that I have in-mind to get them to unfold in a similar-fashion as the G1-tape.

    After thinking on that one for a couple years now and looking at pricing & availability of old top-loaders, I was forced to come-up with a better-solution: Simply build around an early-90s tape-rewinder with a transparent pop-up deck with a centered eject-button, and I came-up with an RCA-model that fit the need perfectly. It's not expensive, a lot easier to find, and all I gotta do at this point is build around it instead of butchering an old VCR, this was the best, most-plausible-solution. I already bought 2 of these months ago to at least start looking at it & took one apart to fix it, but I've got my base for Soundwave here.....but unless somebody comes-forward with the money & balls to commission one, first-things-first, VHS-Ravage.... :cool: 

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    It’s perfect
     
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    Cool think about eventually making blaster with steeljaw and sundor
     
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    Hell yeah!! :buttrock 
     
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    Finally made the cuts for Ravage's rear-leg & weapon-panel today on the final-torso shell & cleaned 'em up, here's a rough-look at what he's lookin like! Pleased with the proportions so far, now to connect the legs to the torso & build the rear-foot. Then, figure-out the pivot-point for the belly-panel that flips-up & forms the inverted weapons-panel in cat-mode. The panel cut-out that forms the chest & belly-indentation when flipped-up will actually contain his side-weapons, so no extra-kibble goes to waste on this guy. He will have 2 parallel missiles resembling his side-mounted G1-weapons pointing-forward at an angle, but will be separate from his legs compared to the G1-toy. The notch in the tape's center-field isn't cut for the weapons-link yet, so more to come on how all that will work once everything's mounted & working. :cool: 
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    Looks good

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    Yep. I have zero doubt you are going to pull this off in spectacular fashion.
     
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    That's corny
     
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    Glad you liked my idea
     
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  18. KINGBOTZ

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    VHS-Ravage update: Decided to first connect the front-leg today before going with a rear-leg design, here's a look at the mounts before I rivet the connecting-link shortly, will update later once the link is in......Reason being, I need to finalize where the front shoulder will fall once the leg-assembly folds-out, that will determine where I have the rear-leg land in-place after. Here's an inside-look at the fold-out setup that will allow the front-leg to pivot-upwards so that his upper-body has more of a crouched-look when he's standing. Even the original-tape-design had a higher front-leg mount, which is what I'm going-for.
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    Will the VHS be playable when Ravage is in tape mode?
     
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