Greyryder wrote:Tramp wrote:Look at how te legs are connected to the body. They're attached to pegs sticking directly out of the nose-cone. Those same points on the nosecone in vehicle mode are lacking both in those posts, and a way for the legs to rotate into position. It is utterly impossible for it to be the same nose-cone/cockpit section, and for it to transform without taking the legs off and reattaching them given those specific features.
The Yammy 1/48s use a hidden T-bar style swing arm. There's a section on the bottom of the nose cone that opens up, to let the "pelvis" in. You can see the seams for it in the pictures. Those little circles on the sides of the nose cone blisters are seperate pieces that fold out of the way, to let the bars the hips are mounted on poke out of the side of the nose cone.
It's true, my housemate just bought one of these back from Japan - the transformation of these things had me baffled until I was able to examine it, but now I know how, i'm planning to modify my old 1/72 scale Bandai VF-1A kit I bought years ago - I never finished it, because I hated how you had to remove the legs and re-attach them to a different nose-piece altogether like
Tramp describes (it was a significantly different shape, the alternative nose, shorter, fatter, and much uglier, heh). Hopefully, I can make it so the legs stay on the figure to transform. The only real problem is the heat-shield - the 1/72 scale is quite small really, and the space for fitting it in is very limited. Still, where there's a will!
By the way, awesome paint-job
Sodawilly!
