General Upgrade Kits Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by ziltama, Nov 30, 2020.

  1. Ottertron

    Ottertron Moon-faced assassin of joy

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    I always go to eBay.com - never a regional variant - search in Toys and games/action figures for 'upgrade' and filter for 'recently added'. This brings up all the most recent ones and you can then go into each seller's individual stores and find older ones.
     
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  2. wheeljackfan16

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    I considered it, but eventually just opted to have the spoilers attachment points be smaller for a faster print time, since I was trying to get them out as fast as possible. The ones I have are selling fast enough already that I basically don't have a printer open for prototypes even if I wanted to go back and make a version with them. Once things settle down a bit I would probably be more open to it, but if last year is any indication, sales really start picking up from the end of August, peak early December, and finally slow down substantially by February. I'm actually kind of worried for this year, I only had like 10 kits last year, and now I'm working with around 60, not even counting variations. There was a short time last year I was sending out 70-90 orders a day, and that was simple orders, where there would only be one or two items per order, most of the time just Grimlock teeth, but as I offer more stuff, people obviously don't want to pay shipping twice, so there is more stuff in each order.
     
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  3. Hooper_X

    Hooper_X hit dogs holler

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    yeahhhhhhh, i may be tossing you an order soon, lol - my Amazon two-packs are apparently going to hit sometime late next week!
     
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    They work for both Siege and Earthrise. It's the same pin configuration.

    The ankle pin just needs popped. It's very easy to do because the rough end of thr pin is visible.
    Once the pin is out, run it through thr pieces of the new ankle just to make sure it fits, take it out, line the pieces up and re-pin them into the leg.
     
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    Pretty straight forward, cool.
     
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    I do the same, but I filter out Spider-Man and Ben 10, because those have a lot of listings with "Upgrade" in the name. So I search in the Action Figures & Accessories category, enter upgrade -spider-man -spiderman -ben into the search bar, and then sort the results by newly listed. That works really well.

    The only problem is that there's a small number of TF upgrade sets that are listed without the word 'upgrade' and instead use the term "Add-On" (or sometimes "Add-On set"). Those are few and far between, though, and frequently aren't for TFs anyway, so I don't bother including that in the search.
     
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    Decepticreeps100 Covered in Scorpions, all covered in Scorpions

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    Anyone pick up the Tracks blaster and using it with their RTS version
     
  10. ziltama

    ziltama Mods, molds, and casts. Also full of hot gas.

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  11. DoubleClouder

    DoubleClouder Prototype / Testshot collector

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    Can't access it because of work, but are they literally taking/stealing the files or designing it from scratch to look like another groups?
     
  12. ziltama

    ziltama Mods, molds, and casts. Also full of hot gas.

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    I'm not going to rely on Google translate completely, but it seems like DNA bought this groups parts and now used it as their design.
    你们dna这么缺设计师吗,台湾代购买我的猫耳朵配件没几天就放黑影图,真就这么不要脸直接照搬呗现在彩图出来了,不能说毫无关系,只能说一模一样
     
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    Gun Hammer Upgrade Kit For Dinobot Armed Weapon Enhance | eBay

    I noticed these the other night, but having the 5mm be on the gun itself and not an adaptor so other figs can use it turned me off
     
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    So got some parts from TFSafari in the mail today, after some mistakes made by the USPS sent them all over the place. They got my order wrong - I wanted and ordered the M-58 and M-62 kits from Matrix Workshop, and I got the M-58 and M-57 kits. Don't get me wrong, I planned on getting the M-57 kit anyway (got Gnaw on preorder) but this still feels like a screw-up on their part. I've contacted them about it, but in the event that they aren't able to fix this, what are my options other than eBay?
     
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    I wish they had a pic showing whether the Dinobot buck can hold the rifle in an aiming-shooting fashion, even if that can only be done one-handed but Big Thanks! :thumb 

    Now, bandoliers, please someone?
     
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    Heheh
    "By the fans, for the fans" indeed.

    Edit: Holy crap those fingernails!!!
     
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  17. ziltama

    ziltama Mods, molds, and casts. Also full of hot gas.

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    Yeah, I tried to mentally block them out. Holy crap indeed
     
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  18. wheeljackfan16

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    Hey, so how many people would be interested in Ark fillers? Basically, I'm having trouble finding a good color match, and when I run empty spools into the filament factory, I want to see how hard it would be for me to get a custom color of filament made.
     
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  19. Echowarrior

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    I wouldn't say no to such things. The more options, the better.
     
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  20. Fenrys

    Fenrys Formerly Tigatron2002

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    I'd be down for ark fillers, especially if the price you mentioned the other day holds