The 3rd party acquisitions thread!

[Mythirax]

Pandinus AKA the Wallet Destroyer.

Colour me that shade of green with envy. Looks awesome!

It's by Maketoys.

Thanks! And wow does it look amazing! And the price hot damn, so, so beautiful though.

[Akky82]

Holding out for the Black Zarak retool

(but seriously, prepare your wallets...)

[Lord_Zed]

I still haven't worked out all his undocumented features like his removable claw gloves, they don't seem to show that stuff in the instructions, but it's fun discovering them.

Holding out for the Black Zarak retool

(but seriously, prepare your wallets...)

I think one is enough for me s he is hard on the wallet even at Premium Collectibles awesome price he's probably my most expensive toy, only the VF4 comes close.

Black Zarak would be awesome, though I just wanted some sort of G1 Scorponok related toy, always liked him better than Fort Max.

[UltraMarginal]

I guess this classify as a 3p purchase?

haven't posted much lately as been busy working on a side project which was finally wrapping up and my piece arrived, a custom shapeways warbotron chest plate for the WB-03 Computron combiner.

The result turned out pretty nice and originally started this simply due to myself wanting a custom piece for the combiner, but in the end we threw it up on shapeways so if anyone else wanted they can get one as well.

Comes in basic base colors

But when you add a little paint

It looks great, and very smooth for a 3D print. which material did you use? is it the strong flexible in red with a polish?

[aching878]

It looks great, and very smooth for a 3D print. which material did you use? is it the strong flexible in red with a polish?

yep, the one in pics is the Red Strong & Flexible Polished version

[aching878]

Finally got these lot together, looks spot on to the studio ox design, for the most part it is really solid for such a large build.

However there are minor design choices/issues, the waist tilt being one as by including that function the top half of the torso will always have a slight tilt to the front or back given it is a ratchet design.

This one is likely one of those bad luck scenario but the ratchet spring in the right elbow was too strong, as a result on a recent bending of the arm the inner plastic holding the ratchet in place bend and nearly snapped...

End up fixing by replacing with a weaker spring so it still holds & ratchet well and doesn't stress out the plastic too much.

Despite some hiccups overall this is still a great combiner, just need to be aware of the gotchas...

[leej84]

That's beautiful ^

[haydenite]

Finally got these lot together, looks spot on to the studio ox design, for the most part it is really solid for such a large build.

However there are minor design choices/issues, the waist tilt being one as by including that function the top half of the torso will always have a slight tilt to the front or back given it is a ratchet design.

This one is likely one of those bad luck scenario but the ratchet spring in the right elbow was too strong, as a result on a recent bending of the arm the inner plastic holding the ratchet in place bend and nearly snapped...

End up fixing by replacing with a weaker spring so it still holds & ratchet well and doesn't stress out the plastic too much.

Despite some hiccups overall this is still a great combiner, just need to be aware of the gotchas...

TWs Devy is so beautiful, makes all others look like the distant past !!!