Restoration - KO Combiner Wars Combaticons : Onslaught Knee Joints, Vortex Waist Retainer

The KO Combiner Wars Onslaught came with the knee linkages assembled wrongly, hence I decided to try restoring it. First, I unscrew and open up the lower leg. Take note not to loose the combiner port piece that has a spring. As seen in the picture, the triangular protruding knob of the last link should be placed facing the back of leg... I knock out the pin with a small screw driver and the flat side of a pair of small wire-cutters to disassemble the link...


Reverse the link (with the triangular protruding knob facing the back of leg - see picture) and assemble link back...


The correctly assembled linkage (top leg in pitcure), compared to the wrong assembly (lower leg in picture)...


The KO CW Onslaught has a new screw post molded to allow the 2 pieces of the lower leg to be tighter, but this screw post will block the linkage from locking in robot mode. So I cut it off with a pair of wire-cutters, and trim nicely with a pen-knife...


The proper locked-in knee joint should look like this...


A comparison of the restored knee joint with the mis-assembled one...


Now Onslaught has restored legs. This knee configuration makes Onslaught shorter a little bit, but allows a better swing of the knee rotation.


Next is KO CW Vortex. The waist is not able to stay in position in robot mode. Hence I added a key (circled in yellow as seen in picture below) on the central position. The key is done using tissue paper and super-glue mixed. then trimming is done to ensure a smooth "clicking" of the waist..


Just a very very small part of the key is seen in robot mode, so this does not affect the aesthetics of Vortex's robot mode...


The added key also not hindering in helicopter mode...



As with other KOs, I have to tighten some of the joints for a better and smoother handling and transformation. Next will probably be gluing up the feet ( hence no more gun mode ) and painting up some parts...