Post by adrienveidt on Oct 24, 2010 18:49:20 GMT -5
After getting the pretty keen Lost Planet Hardballer from Marcus on Friday, I could see some issues that were probably the things that made it something he was cool with giving up (for so damned cheap a price, too!). Some of the design choices by the game creators were kinda dumb, and some of the execution issues by Kotobokiya were kinda dumb as well.
The biggest thing that boggles my mind is the gun being molded to the right hand, but the left hand being completely separate from the shield. Combined with the shoulder weapons being removable, molding the gun to the hand is just really cheap. I'll have to find a pair of hands to swap in there, thankfully HLJ has my back once I figure out what scale would be best for this thing.
But, that's still to be accomplished. The first major issue I took care of was the weird-ass feet. I'm sure the toe and heel can slide out to give the 'Baller a greater stability, but if the fucker's such a clumsy walker why would you give them the ability to even retract and just give it some big-ass feet from the get-go? I just cut the rods out and glued the toe and heel directly to the foot for a stumpy look. Still stands fine.
The second major issue was the entire hips area. I tossed the 'girdle guards' as just being dumb and ugly and limiting movement. Then I cut the sockets out of the upper thighs and moved them outwards to bring the legs inwards for a more humanoid silhouette and allowing the arms to hang straight down:
Here's a pic of the thigh top of the right leg, with the inner surface pointing up and the front of the leg pointing to the right to show the surgery I gave it. I trimmed the length of the front and side cylinders so they wouldn't bump up against the pelvis as much to provide a wider range of forward and sideways movement.
As mentioned previously I want to swap in new hands. I'll likely give the gun a new handle from some big-ass Chap Mei SWAT gun. I'm also wanting to give the wings the ability to swing outwards as well as the swing-up ability they already have. I'll make the entire backpack removable, too. I swapped the shoulder weapons as they now have to sit upside-down from the way they were designed, which moves them away from the shoulders a couple more millimeters and thus increases their range of movement as well. I think I'm gonna put some sensors on the very top of the head so the pilot can look forward while flying, and I'll try to rig up a pilot's head and opening canopy like I did for my Riot-SNAKE.
Where I need you guys' help is in giving me ideas how to paint and 'assign' it? Do I paint it blue and just make another COBRA SNAKE out of it? A white and gold SHIELD Mandroid? A red Crimson Dynamo? HYDRA's green and yellow response to the SHIELD Mandroid? A black and red Neo NaziTron?
The biggest thing that boggles my mind is the gun being molded to the right hand, but the left hand being completely separate from the shield. Combined with the shoulder weapons being removable, molding the gun to the hand is just really cheap. I'll have to find a pair of hands to swap in there, thankfully HLJ has my back once I figure out what scale would be best for this thing.
But, that's still to be accomplished. The first major issue I took care of was the weird-ass feet. I'm sure the toe and heel can slide out to give the 'Baller a greater stability, but if the fucker's such a clumsy walker why would you give them the ability to even retract and just give it some big-ass feet from the get-go? I just cut the rods out and glued the toe and heel directly to the foot for a stumpy look. Still stands fine.
The second major issue was the entire hips area. I tossed the 'girdle guards' as just being dumb and ugly and limiting movement. Then I cut the sockets out of the upper thighs and moved them outwards to bring the legs inwards for a more humanoid silhouette and allowing the arms to hang straight down:
Here's a pic of the thigh top of the right leg, with the inner surface pointing up and the front of the leg pointing to the right to show the surgery I gave it. I trimmed the length of the front and side cylinders so they wouldn't bump up against the pelvis as much to provide a wider range of forward and sideways movement.
As mentioned previously I want to swap in new hands. I'll likely give the gun a new handle from some big-ass Chap Mei SWAT gun. I'm also wanting to give the wings the ability to swing outwards as well as the swing-up ability they already have. I'll make the entire backpack removable, too. I swapped the shoulder weapons as they now have to sit upside-down from the way they were designed, which moves them away from the shoulders a couple more millimeters and thus increases their range of movement as well. I think I'm gonna put some sensors on the very top of the head so the pilot can look forward while flying, and I'll try to rig up a pilot's head and opening canopy like I did for my Riot-SNAKE.
Where I need you guys' help is in giving me ideas how to paint and 'assign' it? Do I paint it blue and just make another COBRA SNAKE out of it? A white and gold SHIELD Mandroid? A red Crimson Dynamo? HYDRA's green and yellow response to the SHIELD Mandroid? A black and red Neo NaziTron?