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Post by spudafett on Oct 6, 2010 23:28:54 GMT -5
The army drone... or "ground assault" drone as hasbro called it... is probably the most decent of the drone figures in my oppinion. But there's one problem. The cannon's backpack is constructed in a way where the gun can only swivel up or down, there is no side to side motion and the vertical range is very limited. I set out to fix this. Using one of my push-pins with a ball head I trimed the gun's mounting bracket as well as the mount on the backpack end. I drilled a hole into the gun's bracket and used that as a psudo-ball socket for the pin head to seat into. and voila: better range of movement:     not much of a custom, but I thought it was worth sharing.... thought you guys might like to make this fix to yours as well. (btw... I realy hate these damn yellow push-pins, anyone find any black ones around?!) |
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Post by blaster_e11 on Oct 7, 2010 1:38:43 GMT -5
cool update and huge improvement imho
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Post by Hawkeye on Oct 7, 2010 4:58:51 GMT -5
That works
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Post by spudafett on Oct 7, 2010 18:08:33 GMT -5
i just noticed that in the movie the drones do not have the large bore machine gun on the left arm, instead they have two small barrels that come out above the top of the wrist at the back of the hand. I guess hasbro decided to exagerate that feature? I honestly think the toy version is pretty sweet so I won't be trimming that off and fixing it, although I did give thought to it. If you want to be realy technical and movie acurate all the guns on this one are way too big, including the flak cannon.
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Post by SGCaper on Oct 7, 2010 18:14:20 GMT -5
Looks cool. I dig the updates. Anymore in the works?
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Post by Asphalt on Oct 7, 2010 18:59:37 GMT -5
I think I have a package of the black push pins around somewhere I will look.
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Post by daremo on Oct 7, 2010 21:38:23 GMT -5
Nice fix! You can find different colored and sized push pins at Michaels or other craft stores, maybe even Target and Walmart.
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Post by spudafett on Oct 8, 2010 11:01:45 GMT -5
Nice fix! You can find different colored and sized push pins at Michaels or other craft stores, maybe even Target and Walmart. wal-mart only has these yellow ones... at least that's all I could find. they have the perfect sized ball, but are this hideous yellow color! |
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Post by daremo on Oct 8, 2010 12:05:41 GMT -5
Did you check the school/office supply and craft departments? Sometimes one department has them and not the other. I picked mine up at Michaels. Silver ones were perfect for door knobs.
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Post by spudafett on Oct 9, 2010 8:48:55 GMT -5
Did you check the school/office supply and craft departments? Sometimes one department has them and not the other. I picked mine up at Michaels. Silver ones were perfect for door knobs. I'll check there next time... hadn't thought to. Great idea. btw... I am working on another drone, it's a culmination of all the different drones and their main weapons blended together into one drone (minus the air drone)... |
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Post by scopeuk on Nov 8, 2010 15:12:59 GMT -5
very cool update
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Post by Xhairs on Nov 9, 2010 12:47:44 GMT -5
great fix bro.
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