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Well today I decided it was time to start on my first transformer, a casseticon, after many hours late last night studying (playing with) my small transformers collection.

My cassetticon is planned to be the size of a real cassette and will transform into one of the humanoid casseticons (Probably one of my own invention).

The materials I have used thus far:

Old cassette.
Old cd case.

Those are pretty much all the materials I plan to use plus whatever I end up using to sculpt its head.

I began with opening the cassette and removing all the workings, this left me with two cassette halves (My first pieces ).

I decided it would be best to start from the ground up ie. the legs.
The bottom of the cassette is what will transform into the legs however it had holes in it where the tape head reads from.
Sacrificing some realism I decided to fill these 4 holes (The middle hole will house the feet).

I cut piecec of an old cd cover and filed them to size then super glued them to one half of the cassete.

Progress thus far:

2 holes filled.

I would be taking pictures but my camera phone battery is dead, so I will post pictures when it has recharged later on tonight if I can.

All in all im having fun on my first transformer although im not sure of the final quality yet.

~OldSweater~

EDIT:

I'm thinking along the lines of Eject or Rewind.

Heres my pictures.

Its not much yet but you get a rough idea.



Picture of original cassette.



Another picture of the start.



Shot of the five holes.



Bad photo of selfmade cover.



Two halves of cassette.

Sounds like a cool project, hope you can pull it off.
Good luck!

Well the first part of my transformer I am making is its thighs.
Here is the first actual progress.







The part I have cut away is going to be both of his thighs.

~OldSweater~

Wow... this is a pretty ambitious project, but it looks like you've got a steady hand, given how neat that cut looks. This is one to keep track of...

cool, a cassette in 1/1 scale!

you'll need a MP Broadcast to go along with it

If you need any other old CD cases get in contact with me, I get them for free .. That goes for everyone else too.

Cyclone_X wrote:cool, a cassette in 1/1 scale!

you'll need a MP Broadcast to go along with it

Well, technically all of the cassette Transformers were all 1/1 scale. The cartoons and comics made them full-sized cassettes but the toyline they came from had them as micro-cassettes.

Nice idea there, Old Sweater.

Hehe, you should collaborate with Kuzushi.



CASSETTEMAN COMEBACK!!!

Any ideas what i could use for a ball joint that small?

I was thinking maybe eyebrow barbels cause they would be fairly sturdy.
But they cost up 18 dollars (AU) each.

Where could I get small ball joints from?