Crossfire Combaticons

[kup]

NIce one kup, there was a thread about this I read a few days ago here... posted a link to tfw2000 about someone who did the same thing you just did. Sweet!!

I missed that but anyhow, I am glad I heard of the possibility of doing this as it's pretty cool!

There are a couple of flaws - one being that the Energon port would end up being a detachable 'combiner' part rather than being properly built into the figure and the other that some minor mods need to be done so that the energon port attaches more securely to the tank and perhaps strengthen the joint on the front tank peg (if needed) for added stability.

However to achieve combination as seen in the photos, you do not need to mod anything. It's just disassembly of the Energon figure to remove the port and that is super easy.

A tiny nuisance would be that for some straight leg poses you need to move the turret a little bit but this is more in the realm of nitpicking.

[liegeprime]

Yeah the guy in tfw did this but I dont know how he secured the energon port, supposedly its now attached to the PCC figure , but he was quite vague in his discription ( for me it was) and not much pics to show what he did ( like a step by step kinda shots)....yeah the annoying blue tabs must go heheheh

[Lord_Zed]

I never thought it would be so easy.

I'll have to try this out on the weekend.

[kaiden]

omg i went to big w today and bought this, played with it a bit this afternoon and thought to myself - this would be a good brawl.

great pics kup!

[kup]

Note that I mentioned "Hasbro Swindle" as the source of the Energon port - That is not completely correct, I grabbed that from a custom I made a couple of years ago from an Energon combiner tank I changed into Swindle. However take note that the Energon ports on the tank and Helicopter molds are suitable as they are the same.

Some time in the near future, I will make a proper tutorial on how to do this including some extra mods for increased stability and removing those damn PCC ports. As the thread title mentions, this is just the proof of concept and it passes

[Hursticon]

Wow!
That is ridiculous how 'fitting' that PCC really is and how well it works!
Well done to both yourself Kup and Lord_Zed for noticing/coming up with the idea, I look forward to see where you go with this.

[kup]

Wow!
That is ridiculous how 'fitting' that PCC really is and how well it works!
Well done to both yourself Kup and Lord_Zed for noticing/coming up with the idea, I look forward to see where you go with this.

Thanks! but apparently we didn't come up with the idea first. Some guy at a TFW beat us to it!

However he used a different method for combination. The guy basically kitbashed his own Energon combiner port from scratch while I am just using one from a spare figure. His method has given me a bit of an idea when it comes to refining the combination process a bit better.

[snaketales]

I painted my Heavytread's visor red and swapped his Autobot label for a reprolabels' Decepticon sticker this weekend in the lead-up to having a go at this myself.
This looks much easier than the tfw link I posted a few weeks back.

[SharkyMcShark]

I instantly love this.

[1AZRAEL1]

Looks mad, I will have to do that once I get a Crossfire Kit.