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Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

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Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby Jin Saotome » Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:24 pm

Hey everyone, my ball joints arrived and I've finished the tutorial! This explains how to add a basic ball jointed neck to most Transformers. It's one of the more simple modifications in my opinion and can be done by just about anyone.

Jin's Ball Joint Neck Tutorial

Hope this helps, enjoy!

PS, I'll post more here when the forums are wider, it hurts my eyes trying to read things in such a small column and all the pictures get cut off here, argh!
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby First Gen » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:06 pm

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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby Energon » Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:47 am

Thanks a bunch, you make it look so easy!
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby Asepticon » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:48 am

Jin, you dog. I know your all about staying humble and not getting a big head and that's cool, but you deserve serious props for all of your helpful tutorials. You should be proud. You give kitbashers a good name and many of us, me included, are better thanks to you. Thank you. Are you going to Botcon this year. I wanna by you a beer or Shirley Temple or whatever you drink. There's a kitbasher contest there and I have no doubt you'd win. Please respond.
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby Nujevad » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:14 am

That was a great guide for people who've never kitbashed a neck before.
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby Tom_Servo » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:22 am

Nicely done! Is shipping reasonable from HLJ?
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby rpetras » Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:11 pm

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Tom_Servo wrote:Nicely done! Is shipping reasonable from HLJ?


Oh yea, I had the same question!
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby Jin Saotome » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:10 pm

Asepticon wrote:Jin, you dog. I know your all about staying humble and not getting a big head and that's cool, but you deserve serious props for all of your helpful tutorials. You should be proud. You give kitbashers a good name and many of us, me included, are better thanks to you. Thank you. Are you going to Botcon this year. I wanna by you a beer or Shirley Temple or whatever you drink. There's a kitbasher contest there and I have no doubt you'd win. Please respond.

I live in California, so if someone I was to pull in an extra 3k to pay for plane tickets for myself and my wife, hotel fees, and rental car, then I'd go. Botcon moves all over the place tho, doesn't it? If it's ever in California or close by I'd make the drive.

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Tom_Servo wrote:Nicely done! Is shipping reasonable from HLJ?


Oh yea, I had the same question!

Depends on the size of the stuff. Mine was only about $6 because all I had was 3 packs of ball joints and they fit in one of their envelopes. If you order full sized model kits it gets to be around $15. Gotta consider tho, it's coming from Japan and it's quality stuff.
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby Repair Bay » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:27 pm

Jin, that was freaking awesome!
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby the purifyer » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:04 pm

This is a really helpful tutorial.
I'm definitely going to be getting some of these from hlj very soon.
Thanks a bunch Jin! :D
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby Tom_Servo » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:30 am

Thanks Jin! Six bucks is very reasonable for coming from japan!
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Re: Jin's "How to make a ball joint neck" Guide!

Postby underwear ninja » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:13 pm

Very nice tutorial. It goes to show that even a slight change can greatly improve a figure (if only we could give Armada Megatron or Tidalwave knees...)

Also, do you think any stores stateside would sell ball joints? I've got some really wierd case of bad luck when it comes to importing things.
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