Cybertron Mode Drift DFT-01 Assemblage Project!!!
Project start date: 5/6/2010
WAHAH.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17...s/LJ/sp4_1.jpg
This is a follow-along project I've done of the process of putting together this Cybertron mode Drift kit (DFT-01) that I got from SGCollect :)
(note this is actually originally from my lj)
Yep! I planned to get started on it some weeks ago but other ideas came up and took precedence. This past weekend I actually worked on this!!! ASSEMBLAGE!!!
Some time ago, I laid out all the pieces on top of the instructions that came with the kit:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_01.jpg
It was the beginning.... DUN DUN DUN
And on Saturday I started work on this:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_02.jpg
After fiddling around for a while and deciding that instead of a peg-joint head (only 360 degree swivel left/right but no up/down motion) I decided to go with a ball joint for Drift's neck. I'm all out of regular ball joints and only have a (plentiful) supply DOUBLE ball joints which essentially is a ball joint on either side of a peg. No big deal, I just worked with it, dremelling away to make holes large enough for the mini double ball joint (i chose the smallest size)... and so following on with the instructions which essentially say that the grey piece has to have the neck that joins the head that sits in this swivel spot... we now have:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_03.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_04.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_05.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_06.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_07.jpg
Et Voila!!! Works perfectly!!!
Now lookey here:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_08.jpg
how pieces like these were done was they piece (not the tube-like part) has been cast in resin already, and along with the kit I got some styrene rods and drill bits - my job is to drill out holes in the resin pieces, then peg in the styrene tube/rods as per the instructions!
These were actually for the legs... here are the pieces used in a leg..
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_09.jpg
To hold the different parts together and still allow for joint movement, the styrene rods come into play again. Here, I'm trying to fit the rod in so that the white part we prepared earlier joins the top of the thigh... See:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_10.jpg
Then we have to do the same for the knee joint so that we can have him bending at the knee:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_11.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_12.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_13.jpg
From here, I was racing against the clock as I wanted to get this done as much as I could before having to pick my bro up from school... so I kept working and here's the legs:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_14.jpg
(I then went to get my bro from school and drop my colleague/mate and girlfriend home. I also then had a further recess of dinner)
When I got home it was time to be working on the arms, and connecting them to the shoulder armour (part of the vehicle mode) and the torso!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_19.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_18.jpg
Then I worked on constructing the crotch and merging that with the legs:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_17.jpg
AND THEN:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_16.jpg
but of course, to make it cooler -
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_15.jpg
Ahhh Drift - he's so in awe to be in his presense that he's besides himself (OMG TERRIBLE LAWL)
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Continuation: 7/6/2010
And here we are - more work done on the Cybertron Mode Drift...
What started off as the parts of a junker (read: I broke part of it, bought a replacement for a mate's custom, then haven't done anything for the toy - so now he's making goon on his worth :b) <a href=http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Jolt/jolt.htm[/img]Jolt</a[/img] from the first movie- became the basis of the hip/crotch mod I was planning on doing... the plan essentially is to give him proper ball-jointed hips so that he has the kind of articulation that I actually want him to... So here's to it! 8D I've unfortunately lost the thigh swivel in all this - but here's to the ball jointed hips giving him enough of the articulation that I want him to have :)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/SP7_01.jpg
See? here's what it looked like off Jolt...(I'd already disassembled some and done some cutting as you can see :b)
Then, I drilled and cut and sanded my way through the crotch piece of the figure and fit the parts from Jolt into the hole I made:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/SP7_02.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/SP7_03.jpg
See? it works, right? :D
the sockets that work WITH the ball joints I decided would be cut out of Jolt and used in conjunction with some of the detail parts from the existing Drift mould...
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/SP7_04.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/SP7_05.jpg
And finally, I epoxy the sockets to the legs... like I said, I have effectively lost the thigh swivel, but not all is lost - I could always separate this and try again or something... either way it appears to be working out for the better - having the ball-jointed hips is so important...
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/SP7_06.jpg
So now we wait for the curing to happen (overnight at least - I'll check it in the morn) and then we put it back together to see how my mods have added poseability, and... hindered transformation -_-; I have a sneaking suspicion the hips might be just a tad wide now - ah well - think of all the high kicks he'll be able to do... -_-;;;;;
*note and in case it needed be said or shown, even without the ball joints for hips, he's not that inflexible in case anyone was wondering...
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17.../LJ/sp6_22.jpg
