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really great work with this one!!
looks completely organic and natural, not forced or unnatural

I was so inspired by Doubledealer's Springer, I had to do one myself. I am really happy with the results and that it required no paint. I took a slightly different approach though. I thought I'd share what I did with some extra detail to make it easy for others if they want to copy it.

All the additional parts are from a TF movie 1 Wreckage (i had two of them).
Parts from Wreckage:
- 4 Wheels
- 2 feet
- two shoulder ball joints (for Springer's new ankles). fyi, these were hell to extract and it ended up breaking Wreckage .

The wheels turn wonderfully, are not wobbly, and seem to be very secure.
- To attach the wheels to the back I drilled tiny little holes in springer's original feet(lined up w/ the internal tube) and used regular screws that were pretty short (i think .5 in or less)
- To attach the wheels to the front, I put epoxy putty in the back of the missile launchers. Then I used the same screws to affix the wheels. Also, the missiles still work if you shorten the back of them!

Car:






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Helicopter:

Fantastic! Kudos to you both

I don't suppose you could do the same thing to my Springer, would you?

Yeah, that's really badass. Wish Hasbro was smart enough to implement a remold to make something like that.

Impressive! The car mode looks good, not too intrusive. Is it possible to configure the legs in the original way with the wheels attached?

Incredible work... Damn...

Wow , that is perfection i mean the feet the buggy are just spot on all you need to do is slap on some reprolabels and wal ah imo the best springer out there .

So awesome. You guys are smart and talented. I am neither but I'm going to give this a shot anyways.