The issue with Breakdown is the part where you'd plug the two guns in is already occupied by the spoiler, so you can't use both the spoiler and double-guns at the same time.

 

Anyone else? Nonnef isn't available outside the US.

 

G_works distribute for Nonnef outside the US, but they do it through pre-orders, don't have a dedicated stock - pre-orders are just about to close so I'd advise doing it quick

 

I don't have any solution for a second gun, but it's fairly easy to just get a hobby knife and cut the stock spoiler yourself. I used the thicker handle Xacto knife, carefully cut a line down the middle of the underside of the spoiler as a guide, then slowly applied pressure to the blade, rocking it a bit to cut into the edges, until the blade went completely through.

 

The lighting must be making it look better than it does IRL then because the color match looks almost perfect to me here, about on par with the matching between the plastic and the paint on his roof.

 

Thinking about the reasonable success had with the Galaxy Shuttle coloured Astrotrain parts.
I was wondering what next.

What about a transparent purple Galvatron upgrade kit for "Behold Galvatron" The standard one doesn't look to bad on him but clear parts might be nice still, likewise with the forearm covers too ?

Also I noticed when I was fitting the forearm covers I bought to my Kingdom Sideswipe that a lot (but not all) of the other versions of the siege mould don't have the same colour forearms, some use "off white" and some use "Light grey".

If you don't mind the "Ghetto" Solution then 5mm hollow rod or even cut up acrylic drinking straws can work as a means to turing a 5mm port or screw hole into a "vintage" Minicon adaptor or a place to plug a hole onto a hole or even Mechtech weapons.
Lego Technic connectors do work to some extent too but can be a bit loose.

 

Black Soil Tarn kit. I have not tried a Black Soil kit before. Looks the most promising of all the various Tarn kits so far. Granted, Tarn is good enough the way he is.

 

I wouldn't mind some kind of adaptor to let all of the guns combine. You can get the combined weapons of the limb bots as forearm cannons using the 5MM ports on the back end of Dead End*, except that you end up with a spare Dead End gun.

2x Dragstrip guns plug into eachother -> plug into the 5mm port on the side of Wildrider's gun -> plugs into Dead End's rear 5mm port

Dead End's gun -> plugs into the 5mm port on Breakdown's gun -> plugs into the 5mm port on Wildrider's gun -> plgus into Dead End's rear 5mm port.

*or Dragstrip, but I use his two 5mm ports for the Motormaster's big gun

 

Groovy shoulder pauldrons, nice fist covers, and even the cannon nib looks pretty good. I like it!

 

Where did the cannon fillers for Tarn come from they are not shown in the innitial images ?

 

Still no love for Legacy Hot Shot? Almost tempted to buy the Tim Heada one if I have to.

 

Friends don't let friends buy Tim Heada products.

 

Makes me wish I had the time, printer and painting finesse to just do my own   The kit itself looks pretty good, shame the quality isn't generally good. Sigh.

 

So I got in the Needlenose kit, yesterday. The one with the leg flaps.

It's honestly pretty okay. The color match isn't perfect but it's nowhere near as bad as pictures would have you believe. Installation is nice and easy and does make him look a lot better when it's all said and done.

Is it worth $17.00? I don't know, that's up to you, but for me, I'm happy with with it.

 

I'm waiting to see what GoBetter does for Needlenose, but even their recent kits have had issues.

 

Superman Studios have been really good with their kits, the only problems I've had are that I needed to Super Glue some into place.

I'm going to purchase a Needlenose set for myself, but there is a current coupon code with TF Safari, so I'm waiting to see if I need to buy any others.

 

Thanks for sharing pics of both sets. The Sludge one is pretty sweet snd I wish I would have waited for that version. Side note… is it just me, or does anyone else wish these companies would sand down the 3D printer parts so they wouldn’t have visible print lines? They also seem like a bit of an eyesore. The brittleness of 3D parts sucks too, but I’m not sure what can be done about that…

 

The Matrix Workshop Tarn set has appeared for pre-order on ebay, but still no sign of the Leo Prime set - that's the one I'm waiting for.

Matrix Workshop Legacy Evolution Tarn & Leo Prime Voyager Upgrade Kits

The DNA Star Saber set should start showing up soon, right?