Any ideas on how to make the head more Nightbeatish? any feedback please  

 

Thanks man, this is an old custom I did two years ago when reprolabels came out with the sticker sheet to make a Night Beat out of the BT Blue Prowl. Did not buy the stickers, I decided to use the Broadblast flame stickers instead. The carbon fiber stickers I got from ebay awhile back for $2.

Going to try that head mod or may use the spare Sideswipe head and some putty.

Cheers, Tech

 

   

I'll help you remember....  

 

I got the one with the G1 stickers..........................BUT IT IS A PIECE OF CRAP!!!!!

1.loose joints
2.lose wheel that does fall of
3.puk ivory color
4.deformed tires

If I see another one of thee things again i'll go nuts.

Sorry. I think i went to crazy with that.

 

Hah...yeah, sorry to say they're rather hit or miss here. It's always a luck of the draw whether you get a perfect figure or a stinker. Think of the usual QA ratio of good figures to bad figures for your standard Hasbro figure, and then invert those numbers.  

I've got one of each recolor of the KO mold.

My KO Chinese Police version is absolutely perfect* -- even the art screened on the side is great. I had to repaint the eyes, but otherwise I couldn't ask for better. He could have almost passed for a special edition alt.

KO Blue Prowl came in with the metallic paint a little dinged in places, and kinda loose and floppy all over. One mirror was so loose it fell right off and required gluing right off that bat, and of course the face needed touching up. I'm seriously considering sanding down a lot of him and giving him a fresh coat of some new metallic blue paint, as the existing paint is kinda shoddy.

My KO BT Prowl was in perfect* shape right out of the box, with flawless paint, and the body panels matched up spectacularly. The clear plastic used on his legs was incredibly brittle, however, and his rear window hinges basically crumbled, requiring me to fashion new hinges from styrene.

So you see, sometimes you get a winner, sometimes you get a lemon. I'm afraid you got a lemon...but put in a little elbow grease and you can make it really presentable, without the guilt of destroying a real figure.  

*-When I say "perfect" I mean that it was structurally sound. Every KO requires a little TLC out of the box to make it work correctly. Be prepared to drill holes a little larger, realign pins, tighten screws, apply nail polish to ball joints to make them less loose, glue on pieces, and carve off those annoying plastic sprue thorns. I've repaired about two dozen KO figures...maybe I ought to write up a radicons tutorial on how to fix up your KO Alternators!  

 

I need to try to find a way to get my hands on one of these !!! Chinese police Virsion that is.

 

Any luck?