Heavy/Scratch: Kingdom Cheetor leg mod

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  1. evil129

    evil129 Active Member

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    Kingdom Cheetor has a good mold, simplify but still good balance between beast and robot mode. The only thing i don't like is the thick leg, the wrong proportion made his foot looks too small.

    I therefore change the back and front leg and add few leg armor to it (including a foldable panel to cover the gap but allow foot to fold up in beast mode). The beast legs now fold behind robot legs.
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  2. POSSESSED_DIGIT

    POSSESSED_DIGIT WE ARE NUBBY THUMB!!

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    That looks really good! How did you do it?
     
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  3. evil129

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    Basic idea is to turn the leg 180 ° front to back, then unpin the foot, switch left and right foot and pin it back (you need to make some cut on the side of foot to allow ankle joint move inward).
    The rest is adding a knee pad armor, and fill the gaps
     
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  4. Lunatic Prime

    Lunatic Prime Former Prime and light piping fetishist

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    You bought two Cheetors for the extra leg pieces?
     
  5. evil129

    evil129 Active Member

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    Yes, I broke one at my first trial, so it becomes extra parts for the second one
     
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  6. POSSESSED_DIGIT

    POSSESSED_DIGIT WE ARE NUBBY THUMB!!

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    I might try that...
     
  7. Fuze9

    Fuze9 Piddle Patrol

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    Wow. Really cool. It's kind of a subtle-but-significant change. And the fact that you got it to still work for the transformation!
     
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  8. smiller0570

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    Nice job man!!! Looks easy enough to do without much force. Also what gut blaster is that it looks great!!!
     
  9. caecae22

    caecae22 Fifth Face of Darkness

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    Looks much better.Actually wondered myself if reversing the legs or something might be possible and guess it is. Will have to think about this myself
     
  10. shiftypenguin

    shiftypenguin Fancy-Pantsless Dancer

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    Excellent job! That's helps a ton.
     
  11. Admiral Lilwall

    Admiral Lilwall Lilwall Leader

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    Oh wow that is SO much better! Aside from the lack of a his gut gun his legs are the only real issue this figure has. Great job he looks perfect
     
  12. lastmaximal

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    Actually looks a LOT better this way, and the only tradeoff to speak of is having some tiny armor bits in beast mode (and the lower legs already had some). Definitely worth a try (I don't know if I can do the folding cover panel but the rest seems workable).
     
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    This looks so much better, great job cleaning him up!
     
  14. JazzIsBack

    JazzIsBack Well-Known Member

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    Where’d the gun come from and does it store in beast mode?
     
  15. Kenji

    Kenji Well-Known Member

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    Sorry to bump and old thread but does anyone know how to remove the pins(these are plastic seemingly not metal) for the legs without snapping anything?
     
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