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These arrived on my birthday and they fit awesome! I need to make a few minor tweaks to the knee connectors (shave off one of the pegs) and the hands.

The hands had the column for the axle filled in with either support or WST material and I ended up "drilling" them out using the sharpened end of a straight paper clip. it was terrifying. I then cut pieces of paper clip to length and used as axles for the finger joints.

It worked, but I can't expect anybody that goes for this kit to do the same so I'm going to have to work out another solution. I might try a half ball/recess friction connection but I worry that it will keep popping out.

Other than that, this is working exactly how I wanted

For those interested so far:
Kreon upgrade kit by wulongti on Shapeways

Joints are articulated enough for a 3 point landing (the Ironman pose)


Standard Lego parts can fit the pegs for added customization


The pegs all have a 3mm port along with the hands to accommodate the Kreon weapons/Kibble parts as well as the Cyberverse Weapons.


The bottoms of the feet/forearms have female lego ports


Parts easily removed and added to other toys

Hey, those are very, very cool!

Are you going to be working on any more accessories?

We Kreophiles desperately need more helmet options!

my next project was going to be a leg upgrade for the Legends OP/Motor Breath but that hasn't gotten beyond a few concept sketches.

What kinda stuff did you have in mind?

It's been suggested that I do some limbs that don't have all the "lego pegs" all over them in order to go for a cooler looking action figure... Ariel Lemon (fakebusker83) suggested that these could easily be worked into drone limbs for devistator or the other upcoming combiners ala PPC style...

I've also been thinking about a torso upgrade to give these figures more bulk in the middle.

thoughts?

wulongti wrote:my next project was going to be a leg upgrade for the Legends OP/Motor Breath but that hasn't gotten beyond a few concept sketches.

What kinda stuff did you have in mind?

It's been suggested that I do some limbs that don't have all the "lego pegs" all over them in order to go for a cooler looking action figure... Ariel Lemon (fakebusker83) suggested that these could easily be worked into drone limbs for devistator or the other upcoming combiners ala PPC style...

I've also been thinking about a torso upgrade to give these figures more bulk in the middle.

thoughts?

Since you ask...

I wouldn't remove the "lego pegs." For me, the customizable nature of these toys is a key selling point. The pegs would let people modify them however they see fit...and preserves the nature of a building toy. My vote is to keep the lego pegs.

You could have two versions, one with pegs and one without, but I would buy the one with pegs if I was going to buy one.

I'd be curious to see your torso designs. Even if you didn't make full-fledged torsos, it would be kinda cool to make little torso vests that evoke characters that Hasbro hasn't made yet.

Now, as for parts I'd like to see made...

I'd love someone to make helmets for characters that Hasbro hasn't released like Sunstreaker, Hoist, Skids, Frenzy and Rumble, etc...or more accurate ones for figures already out there like Megatron and Galvatron.

Other items would be a G1-Huffer "hood" or a cab that would hang over his head. A blocky G1-Gears helment. (I have a hankering to finish a G1 collection, in case it wasn't too obvious). A jetpack for Sideswipe. A shoulder cannon for Soundwave.

those are some awesome ideas... I think I need to write some of those down haha

over on my thread on TFW, someone suggested variant hands and helmets, primarily for an Omega upgrade

another avenue to explore will be additional parts for the combiner sets to improve them. Like something for the hands instead of having two Kreon legs for a hand...

oh, I was playing around w/ the parts earlier today and there are more options available in assembly that I didn't initially intend

Wow, those turned out fantastic! Love the ports all over them for potential customization.
Out of curiosity, can a vaguely DotM Devcon-ish pose be achieved with these?:


I'd love to see more Shapeways Kre-O parts, too. More helmets most definitely, though I'd also like to see an alternative set or two of legs. Like a single, "pogo" leg for RotF Rampage and BM Jetstorm, or a single, wheeled leg for RotF Scavenger/Demolishor and BM Thrust (or a single leg that can be used in both "pogo" and wheeled styles; i.e. you just pop a wheel on or off).

Noideaforaname wrote:Wow, those turned out fantastic! Love the ports all over them for potential customization.
Out of curiosity, can a vaguely DotM Devcon-ish pose be achieved with these?:


I'd love to see more Shapeways Kre-O parts, too. More helmets most definitely, though I'd also like to see an alternative set or two of legs. Like a single, "pogo" leg for RotF Rampage and BM Jetstorm, or a single, wheeled leg for RotF Scavenger/Demolishor and BM Thrust (or a single leg that can be used in both "pogo" and wheeled styles; i.e. you just pop a wheel on or off).

Why yes, yes that pose can be achieved


I'm already planning on doing a variant of the knees that will fuse the legs together and then give you a ball socket on the bottom. This is for the upcoming combiners so that we can give them hands instead of lame legs as hands. I'm sure that we could easily come up with all kinds of things to fit that socket

wulongti wrote:

Nice work with the kits!

The base plate Bluestreak is standing on caught my attention. Do you, by any chance, collect Halo Megablock minifigures, and happen to own the unlisted clear variant spartans? Or it could just be an identical plate from another set...

Nicely done!

gavinfuzzy wrote:

wulongti wrote:
Nice work with the kits!

The base plate Bluestreak is standing on caught my attention. Do you, by any chance, collect Halo Megablock minifigures, and happen to own the unlisted clear variant spartans? Or it could just be an identical plate from another set...

thanks a lot!

and to answer your question...
Why yes I do happen to collect Halo Megabloks... I do not, however, have any of the unlisted variant spartans from wave 5 of the minifigs

Though not for lack of trying to hunt them down.


Thanks, Daimchoc