Hey guys… I wanted to post this earlier, but the site has been having problems for a while (with the search engine being disabled & all that)… but I wanted to ask some tech help & see if anyone can give me a hand up here.

I’ve been working on & off with a few projects for the last few months, & for the last few days I’ve been working with some junkers that I have had laying around. I had been doing some 3d sculpting on the computer the last few weeks, & now I am actually working on physical remains.

Over the last year I bought a whole bunch of KO Alternator/Binaltech figures, & recently I have gotten more enthusiastic about laying into them. Overall… some of the KO’s that I got have been actually been pretty good. Some brands are better than others, but a couple of them are just as good or better than the American releases of the Alternator line. The only main problem that I’ve run into with a few of them is that a few of them have poorly molded parts (like their faces the waist tab section), or poor plastic. Which I chuck up to low quality materials/production. But overall… I think that they are pretty neat figures for being KO’s.

What I’ve been doing is a little project to get my feet wet. What I was thinking was doing a project that was ‘simple,’ & covered all bases that I would pretty much bump into down the road. A couple years ago, I came down with cancer, & a whole bunch of things in my life changed due to the nerve damage that I received. My educational background is in 3D animation, & I am no stranger to 3D printing & engineering because I had been doing it for years.

This wasn’t my intent… but 1 of the projects that I started on 1st was making a G1 colored Alternator Smokescreen. I will post images later in a different thread, but I happened to find a KO that had a paint scheme pretty similar… but different than the G1 mark-up. In a way… the red, white, & blue color scheme can look a little gaudy if not done right… but the way that it was designed was quite nice actually.

Right now… the figure that I have loosely put together is a mix of the Alternator Smokescreen & Ricochet… & the rest are bits & pieces of other KO’s of the same mold. I plan on using the blue elements off of Smokescreen for the blue, the white bits off of Ricochet for the torso base & legs, & the rest are bits & pieces are from the KO’s. Right now I still have Ricochet’s feet attached to the legs because the peg that the ankle attaches to in the trunk of the car is either to large or too small (depending on what tab you are referring to)… so I will have to either enlarge the hole in the ankle, or shave down the peg in the trunk. 1 of the 2.

But the question that I wanted to ask you guys is what’s the easiest way to punch the pins out in his waist section? I’ve used hammer & push pin with no luck. I might not be getting any success because of the nerve damage in my hands… but I was wondering if there was a easier way of doing it. With the KO that I have, the waist section is white… so it matches the legs & the trim right at the dash board. Can anybody help me out here? I know how to push pins out… but with my hands being so flimsy… it might be making it harder to do simply because of that. Can anybody help me?

DB

 

Use a soldering iron to heat the pins up a bit just be careful to not burn the plastic. When it's nice and warm then drive the pin out. Hope that helps you out.

 

Thanks man… I will give this a shot! Any size head that I should put in the iron?

 

Hey guys… I wanted to post this earlier, but the site has been having problems for a while (with the search engine being disabled & all that)… but I wanted to ask some tech help & see if anyone can give me a hand up here.

I’ve been working on & off with a few projects for the last few months, & for the last few days I’ve been working with some junkers that I have had laying around. I had been doing some 3d sculpting on the computer the last few weeks, & now I am actually working on physical remains.
Over the last year I bought a whole bunch of KO Alternator/Binaltech figures, & recently I have gotten more enthusiastic about laying into them. Overall… some of the KO’s that I got have been actually been pretty good. Some brands are better than others, but a couple of them are just as good or better than the American releases of the Alternator line. The only main problem that I’ve run into with a few of them is that a few of them have poorly molded parts (like their faces the waist tab section), or poor plastic. Which I chuck up to low quality materials/production. But overall… I think that they are pretty neat figures for being KO’s.

What I’ve been doing is a little project to get my feet wet. What I was thinking was doing a project that was ‘simple,’ & covered all bases that I would pretty much bump into down the road. A couple years ago, I came down with cancer, & a whole bunch of things in my life changed due to the nerve damage that I received. My educational background is in 3D animation, & I am no stranger to 3D printing & engineering because I had been doing it for years.

This wasn’t my intent… but 1 of the projects that I started on 1st was making a G1 colored Alternator Smokescreen. I will post images later in a different thread, but I happened to find a KO that had a paint scheme pretty similar… but different than the G1 mark-up. In a way… the red, white, & blue color scheme can look a little gaudy if not done right… but the way that it was designed was quite nice actually.

Right now… the figure that I have loosely put together is a mix of the Alternator Smokescreen & Ricochet… & the rest are bits & pieces of other KO’s of the same mold. I plan on using the blue elements off of Smokescreen for the blue, the white bits off of Ricochet for the torso base & legs, & the rest are bits & pieces are from the KO’s. Right now I still have Ricochet’s feet attached to the legs because the peg that the ankle attaches to in the trunk of the car is either to large or too small (depending on what tab you are referring to)… so I will have to either enlarge the hole in the ankle, or shave down the peg in the trunk. 1 of the 2.

But the question that I wanted to ask you guys is what’s the easiest way to punch the pins out in his waist section? I’ve used hammer & push pin with no luck. I might not be getting any success because of the nerve damage in my hands… but I was wondering if there was a easier of doing it. With the KO that I have, the waist section is white… so it matches the legs & the trim right at the dash board. Can anybody help me out here? I know how to push pins out… but with my hands being so flimsy… it might be making it harder to do simply because of that. Can anybody help me?

DB

 

Use the needle element for a soldering iron.