To save trouble, I also cut off the pin-hole part off the cockpit to use later...
A shorter pin which I found in my junk box (I don't know from the pin is from... ) is used to assemble the parts...
The structure is then glued at the cut-off piece to the back of Galvatron... Reinforced using the UV-light Glue.... Done!!!!! Hot-blowed the white stress marks back to normal too...
The back is now quite clean without the bulky cockpit... nice...
Next, the cannon... the current position Hasbro has is not wrong, as this is one of the many positions that Galvatron has been seen to mount the cannon on... However, the lower arm articulation is heavily hindered by this default position, and this has caused many TF collectors to attempt some remedies, e.g. extra piece to mount into the official arm-hole but cannon at the side of arm... I choose a lazier way of just drilling a 5mm hole at the side... super lazy, hahahaha.... but at least this saves me USD 4... hahaha....
But this is still not enough, so I remove the lower arm fins... and stupidly attempted to paint over the cut sections with metallic purple over it, making a quite ugly strip of paint on both arms... luckily the areas are very narrow and not easily noticeable... Hahahaha....
... and drill a hole at the lower arm too!!!!
So here' the result of the moddings... First up is the cannon mode... Looks good... hahahaha....
And Galvatron in robot mode... Looks good!!! More options to put the cannon now!!! Hahahaha....
And here's a short clip to show the modifications...
Nice!!! Can't wait to get him and do what you did!!! Who wants the spaceship anyway?!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat, and wishing you success in advance in the customising this nice figure! All the best! (yeap, agree with you, even before the modification, I had NEVER transform it into jet mode before, not even once...)
DeleteI like what you did here. Thumbs up!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the compliment! =)
Deletei noticed u like to end most of your sentences with "haha" ... is that really funny?? what is so funny about it??
ReplyDeleteIt is, hahahaha...
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