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News Credits: 8 · by **Jin Saotome** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:32 pm

This Transformers Prime custom Beast Hunters Ripclaw features two easy to do mods and one not so easy to do. Her neck mod involves buying a set of the double ball joints from Big Bad Toy Store and removing her old one, drilling down into the neck piece so you can glue in the ball cup. The other ball post end snaps perfectly in her head socket. For her ball-jointed elbows I used TF Movie Depthchage's elbows, cutting the originals off at the red swivel peg and drilling into that to mount the gold ball cups. While Ripclaw's bio mentions the character is a 'She' there's still argument in the Transformers fandom. Here I went to put an end to that buy sculpting a brand new chest plate to show off her new assets. They don't get in the way of her Transformation and with the additional mods she can look in any direction and put her claws on her hips! Some panel lining, shading, and recoloring of her head and this shapely fembot dragon was ready for battle.

News Credits: 8 · by **Jin Saotome** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:33 pm

More pics..

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:00 pm

Did you not post this same mod (with less images) last week? :-?

We featured it in the roundup!

by **PowerEncarnate** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:51 pm

I think he did this post as more of a how to...I know I was wandering what all he did to it to get it looking the way it does...

by **deliciouspeter** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:10 pm

Good lord!

Also thanks for the mod details. Great work.

by **Doubledealer93** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:19 pm

so when ya gonna cast that chest piece and sell it? cus i would buy it.

News Credits: 3 · by **caked-up** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:13 pm

I will be uploading my pictures when I am done with some touch ups, but I am so grateful for the tutorial you did! I bought the double ball joint kit you used and did the head mod, but I skipped the elbows. I would love a bicep swivel, but not at the cost of one of my other toys that I love. I went two steps further and trimmed the dragon head ball joint to give her more motion up there and I used the bulk of that ball joint kit to articulate her tail! Each joint of her tail has ball joints on both sides (where applicable) so now she can really move. Thanks again for the awesome inspiration!