custom made with the help from my fiancé. Still working on adding more of the sheets with different colors. Inspired though by another user on here. Here’s my progress (old but still hoping to finish a few more shelves next month in different colors Non-TF: - Cartoon Grid Style Display the person who came up with the idea and did AMAZING at it is @chchchch Beyond Basics: - Grid Pattern Display Shelf
Probably the not purely right place for this, but the other day I transformed Elita-1 and Cyberverse Arcee. For two figures that have a lot in common, those transformations could not be more different. Arcee may carry most of the vehicle on her back, but at least she integrates with it, forming a rolling, sharp looking car with everything having a proper place to go. Elita-1 on the other hand, is basically a trash transformer, she sticks all her limbs under the alt-mode since she has no alt mode parts to her, she may as well not be a transformer at all and instead been a Pretender with a car mode shell and an Action Master (Sorry, RED) robot within. At least then it would've felt less dishonest. I suppose my TL;DR point is that Cyberverse Arcee manages to make a backpack transformation fun, Elita-1 does everything possible to make me dislike the mold and wildly succeeded.
The WfC Arcee mold has a kit available that makes it a better transformer. I'm planning on building it once I have a chance to recalibrate my 3D printer. Heavy/Scratch: - Earthrise Arcee to Terminator Arcee Conversion Kit
Only one Arcee... Has the touch. No, seriously, hers are the only hands I've found besides the typewriters that can kinda hold that matrix reasonably well. EDIT: I stand by my "reasonably well" statement, but dug out ERcee just to test and whaddayaknow While she does dare, she still lacks the touch.
Yea, she and Earthrise Arcee are shellformers. I have no idea how either of those characters could be done without some kind of huge backpack, since their character design is "hot chick (oh yeah and she turns into a car)". A robot with lithe, female humanoid proportions just doesn't have a lot of volume to turn into car parts. Bayverse tried to make them motorcycles, with that whole "triple split spark" concept, it just didn't work for me. Basically, I would just ditch the hot chick bodies and at least give them Mega Man legs and some chonky shoulders, that might let them move away from backpacks. But the torso has to thicken up too.
They could have at least put a handle on the ER partsforming piece to be a shield like with the Cliffjumper mold Good thoughts on the Megaman legs though!
w o w. Even with the grainy 3D printed parts, that looks amazing! Ugh. But for what it would cost to build injection mold plates for the same parts, we could probably buy 8-10 brand new low-end 3D printers and make Jetfire antennae for the entire board.
