same138 wrote:Looks interesting, if (h)armless! Did you take any WIP pics to show any of your processes involved? I'd like to see before/afters of the drilling etc. just out of interest, I'd never consider buying a kit like this cos I know I'd never get it built, but I'd try and screw it up anyway!
Nice one, so far.
The PVC pipes (that I misidentified as dowels) for the joint pins for the most part didn't fit the way they were supposed to which led to the shoulder breaks. It took 20 minutes of pushing and twisting and backing it out to try again for just one of the chest pins to fit. So when the large peg in the upper arm that connects it to the body broke in the hole because it was to tight to fit, I had to improvise and the middle sized drillbit it came with and repin it with ... a Q-tip. And it fit perfectly. So that became my standard peg method and as silly as it sounds, %80 of the assembling happened in the last hour of a very long day with this thing. There were also knobs on the forearms where the elbow peg goes through but they didn't allow the arms to fold in for the transformation. They're clearly shown as fitting in the directions but they had to go. I have to hit the craft store today to get something to make the arms stay on. The pegs that are supposed to hold it in place fall right outlike there's nothing even there. I can't even get one arm to stay in for one picture but when I fix it I'll let you know how!
As you can see the one on the left is drilled through and fixed with a bit of Q-tip. Improvising is the name of the game!
. I wonder if I'll ever assemble them... I bought the materials, but I still didn't have the time (and courage) to start them.
