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MP Ironhide Mods

Postby Mykltron » Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:06 pm

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

Weapon: tea cup."
We all hate Ironside’s hip flaps. They aren’t cartoon accurate and they restrict his outward hip movement. They also leave an ugly gap under his arm which bothered me a great deal. I’ve seen a fix that turned him into a parts former *turns head and spits* and another that involved making folding arms for them so they could swing around to the back. These will be available as an upgrade set but I don’t want to spend extra money on him, I don’t think my skills are good enough to make those folding arms well enough, and I don’t like the way it gives such a contrast between bulky body and tiny pelvis so I set about finding a simpler fix. It’s not perfect, maybe it’s not as good as the folding arm fix but I think it’s an improvement as it frees up the thighs and smoothes the transition from torso to trunk.

I wasn’t keen on his ‘diaper’ either, but then, who is? I’ve seen a fix that involves cutting off the front section, removing the top and then putting most of the front section back, but I didn’t like the way it exposed the hip joints so I just trimmed some off the ‘skirt flaps’ to make them more cartoon accurate. Sadly it’s not enough of a change to make it look less nappyish.

I wasn’t happy about his poseability in general so I gave him the KFC upgrade hands and improved the knees and neck. If the designer had simply left out some plastic I wouldn’t have needed to do these last steps.

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This is how he looks from the front if you rotate the wheel up without removing the surplus plastic.
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More pictures here, including some showing how I improved his articulation.
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