Arrived today! Whoo, this release was a very nice surprise. I was quite impressed by the transformation, as it was more involved than i expected. I did make some slight modifications. I got rid of that horrid peg. But I also shaved the ankles a bit to give her a bit more range. It's only a slight improvement (10° tops), but it helps with possibility, and getting a bit more range out of her.

If anyone is interested, I used the largest pin drill bit I had and slowly turned back and forth to shave a little at a time (I wanted to preserve the main ankle shape.

pictures shown:
1. The shaving in action
2. before (right) and after (left)
3. ankle tilt forward range improvements
4. ankle rocker range improvements.
5. Poseability improvements.

Whoa, that is very nice, and very clean! I honestly had to do a double take to figure out what you had did.

She is quite a bit of fun...

 

I think it turned out pretty well. Details in my sales thread for anyone interested.

 

ooooooo, uh, may I have one please?

 

How much!?

 

Fantastic work!

 

i am so glad that we have finally made it to a point in this hobby were things like this are possible. it looks great it was super fast and nice work to boot.

 

wasn't planning on bothering with the slim backpack upgrade. but now with an alt mode shell filler from you, i'm seriously contemplating getting both now, fantastic!

only feedback is if it's possible for you to add a slight angle to the sides of the raised white section on the hood?  

 

Not the way I did this, no. It's all painted white. The pink on the hood is actually a decal, and a decal would be too fragile to extend back the way you have drawn it. Sorry.

I guess for anyone who wants to paint it themselves, I could modify the hood bulge that way. But that would make it harder to mask when painting, I would think. I don't airbrush, so I don't know.

 

i'm a little confused, isn't the white portion of the hood raised? if so, can't it be molded to have the angle cut into it?

i get what you're saying about about it maybe being difficult to cut a decal thin to a taper and applying it, but the plastic could be painted instead, right?

 

Yes. But I don't have the paint to match. That's why I did a decal. And even that doesn't match perfectly. I am not very good at color matching.

 

Just got my backpack in from AliExpress, and props to @87render and @djtotalcommander for the screw driver tip. Piece of cake. Just slid the flat screw driver between the body and blue window piece, and the gradual increase in thickness of the screw driver tip popped the blue piece over the pin tip. 

 

would it be possible to add it in to the sculpt and printed? i'd be fine picking one up and having a hand a trying to paint it up to match.

 

I will see about modifying it when I get some time.

 

not sure if anyone else posted or was aware of of this, but there's actual two versions of the backpack upgrade available. one for 49 CNY that replaces the clear cockpit piece completely, and another that's only 15 CNY that attaches to the cockpit.

NA 阿尔西 Newage H48 RC 替换背包 配件包 超人制造工作室

 

Well, this is the one I bought. I removed the backpack with the clear windshield, and it fits. It was $13.21, which is about 94 yuan.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256...2XRHjCt&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa&_randl_shipto=US

 

Finally got mine the other day!  

 

Amazing pics! Though it kills me softly when the waist/midsection is mistransformerd - you shouldn't see any pink breaking up the white head on. The pink front of car piece should sit further back and higher in her torso. Tricky the first couple times, did it wrong myself. I usually collapse it a little before sliding it into the torso.

Sorry, not trying to be critical! Hamhands skullface and other youtubers did the same.

 

LOL, yeeh it doesnt need it. Thankfully it was easy to remove the pin!