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Final Battle Bumblebee

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Final Battle Bumblebee

Postby Mykltron » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:26 pm

Motto: "If I win again I'm still the champion. If you win HAH! that's just impossible.

Weapon: tea cup."
I hate and detest monkey arms so I knew that I'd be chopping up Battle Blade Bumblebee (I didn't intend that pun but I'll leave it in!) within an hour of opening him and that's just what happened. If only designers didn't insist on giving TFs monkey arms (where the palm faces the same direction as the elbow) this figure would have been great.

Here is my list of fixes:

1) Loosen the battle mask as it was so tight I had to rip it off to put it over his face. This involved carving a ramp at the edge of the holes at the back of the channel it slides in and shaving the top off the ridges on the bottom edge.
2) Increase range of motion of shoulder ball joints. This enables him to have is elbows closer to his sides when they are at a natural height rather than adopting the muscleman pose like Universe HotShot, thus taking up less room on my crowded shelves (next project: put up more shelves!).
3) Add rotating wrists. I made a T-type swivel joint (like the ones in his biceps and thighs).
d) The blade is now attached via a magnet so that it can still be stowed securely in the same place for car mode. By trimming some troughs in the blue plastic and embedding more magnets the blade can now be wielded at a more useful angle than before. For storage in robot mode it slots into his backpack.
5) By shaving some of the grey plastic from the elbow joint I have enabled him to bend his arm slightly beyond 90°.
6) Glass beads added to the eyes, gun and headlights to catch the light and look as if they're lit from within.

After all this he was painted with about two thousand coats of yellow (being careful not to cover the black lines in car mode), some other detailing and damage.

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Last edited by Mykltron on Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Final Battle Bumblebee

Postby Sailor Destron » Mon May 09, 2011 3:51 pm

Weapon: Dark Saber Sword
Wow you sure put alot of work into fixing Hasbro's mistakes!
It looks great. I wish I had the patience (and the hand strength) to do all that to a Transformer to fix it! So improved.
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Re: Final Battle Bumblebee

Postby warpainter24 » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:57 am

Very cool. What kind of yellow paint did you use?
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Re: Final Battle Bumblebee

Postby Mykltron » Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:50 pm

Motto: "If I win again I'm still the champion. If you win HAH! that's just impossible.

Weapon: tea cup."
warpainter24 wrote:Very cool. What kind of yellow paint did you use?


I think it was Humbrol enamel. I don't know what shade or colour number. I thinned it down a lot and painted about ten coats.
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Re: Final Battle Bumblebee

Postby morphobots » Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:12 am

Very nice. I never thought of using magnets in the axe, I guess because I didn't want to tear up the arms too much. That is my biggest peeve about this fig, the axe being installed upside down.
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Re: Final Battle Bumblebee

Postby Bumblebee0105 » Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:30 am

How did you add in the wrist swivels? Great custom by the way man, really good work. :BOT:
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Re: Final Battle Bumblebee

Postby Mykltron » Sat Jan 02, 2016 12:52 pm

Motto: "If I win again I'm still the champion. If you win HAH! that's just impossible.

Weapon: tea cup."
Bumblebee0105 wrote:How did you add in the wrist swivels? Great custom by the way man, really good work. :BOT:


I made my own mushroom joints. I don't recommend it. Sink some ball joints in so they're flush, it'll be much more secure and easier to do.
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Re: Final Battle Bumblebee

Postby Bumblebee0105 » Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:56 pm

I made my own mushroom joints. I don't recommend it. Sink some ball joints in so they're flush, it'll be much more secure and easier to do.[/quote]

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