Wow......
Just.....wow.....
(Shockwave was the name for the other gun transforming thing though)
"I'm not scared of anyone or anything Angie. Isn't that the way life should be?"
Jack Hawksmoor, The Authority.
I say this in all seriousness.
You are incredible with legos. You should send some of the pictures of things you've made (probably get some higher quality pics though) to lego corporate. Odds are they'd want to pay you money to continue doing this, so they could sell sets with things this awesome in em.
Liberty
My 50s:
Hero: Armor Assassin (scrapper), Cross Dresser (scrapper), Surly Seaman (blaster), Defensive End (Tank), Rad Rhino (Cont)
Villain: Beast Infection (Corr), Sweet Zombie Jesus (MM), Milk Weasel (Stalker), Orgullo (MM), Agent Eris (Crab)
The LEGO RV Heavy met a most unfortunate end as my mom thought it would be fun to move my lego creation shelf without taking the creations OFF OF THE SHELF. Resulting in the horrible destruction of many a model. Luckily, like the phoenix from the ashes, I was able to build something new. Something cool. Something Transformery.
(taken with cellphone on the kitchen table, some blurry pics. And some other lego stuff of mine in the background... and henkei hound, he's a cool actual transformer so w/e )
I will call him SHOCKWAVE. Because he's an Ion cannon truck, and because when I was done it Reminded me of Decepticon Shockwave but more red. . . Anyways, shall we take a look ?
First off, obviously, the truck mode. This mode is pretty neat. Lights on the front and rear (though they're red so you don't see them too well), nice details all around. Two driver wheels in the front and a set of larger rugged carriage wheels at the rear, behind a white cover plates, where the VERY BIG cannon is. This cannon is very big and fairly detailed. The body is rather massive and sturdy. It rolls around quite smoothly.
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Front
Side
Back
Okay, that does that. Looking at this model is only half the experience, the fun part comes when you TRANSFORM it. I find the transformation on him turned out very solid and every thing fit almost perfectly, and is a fun kind of complexity to it. I'll describe each picture so you know what's going on, cause some motion blur may make it hard to discern.
Transformation:
Step1: Take the side panels of the truck and fold them forward. Then take the large pieces on the side-rear of the truck and bring them out a bit (don't torque them all the way out, it screws up the heavy duty wheels underneath) Take the feet on the pieces and turn them into direction where they are lined up properly to the rest of the leg, not all twisted like they were before.
Step2:Here you can fold those legs all the way down, using the rear section's wheel base as a support. Tip up the section in the back that will become the head.
Step3: well it's propped up, you'll be able to comfortably split the middle section of the truck apart. These are the arms. Now lower the body back down in a relaxed position and you can see the joints that are under where the arms where. These joints will be used in the torso transformation.
Step4: the lower half of the torso and the upper half of the torso can now fold together into a proper solid shape. Fold down and transform the arms. Each arm has an 'L' join on it, and you can fold the forearms from the contorted position they were in truck mode to become actual forearms. In the case of the cannon, there is also a pivot that places it inline with the rest of the arm instead of its off center position (that position allowed it to become the center of the truck, and be the actual cannon there).
Step5: Now we can take the rear panel of the truck and fold it into the torso. There's a brick inside that slide locks it into a slot in the torso and makes the torso very sold. At this point the robot is pretty well robotic. Just tweak some joint positions in the arms and legs to stand him up properly for the next step.
Step6: The final step on this adventure is taking care of what was the front of the truck. The truck's cab actually splits in two. the middle half rises and the outward half/wheels lower down. The middle section will slot into the back of the robot and become a sturdy and aesthetic backpack of sorts.
And there goes the transformation, here are some pics of our little LEGO brick mass of destruction! Shockwave is a large and sturdy robot with a brutish looking body. Posing him can be difficult though, as he is fairly hulking and that cannon is really, VERY BIG. But it's certainly doable. Definitely fit together every way I hoped, and it looks very impressive and imposing. I'm quite proud of it. Articulation works fully in the arms, legs, and the right hand has fingers. No waist twisting or real head movement, however.
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Robot pic1
Robot pic2
Rear
Head
Watch where you point that thing O_o
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