I ve been thinkin about this for a long time . finally i got the balls to do it . heres what i did .

 

1. i found two cheap click pens with shiny chromed metal ink tubes inside, the tubes were the same diameter of the clear plastic bic plastic tubes . you know the ones we used in school back in the day. the ink tube is the part your after . chuck out the rest of the pen as that it will be useless after .

 

2. measured them to height like the back of the 20th box displays.

 

3. then i cut the top of the tubes off at the part that has no ink in it . leavin the nice machined ends on the one side .

 

4. filed the fresh cut ends to remove burrs.

 

5. then i took a small drill bit (same size as the ink tubes)and by hand carefully twisted the bit in the small hole in the stack . to enlarge it ever so slightly not much was needed . I STRESS THE WORDS CAREFULLY it is just plastic .

 

6. then i pressed the tubes into the freshly hand drilled holes, it was a perfect fit

 

They look just like a takara masterpiece stack . with the same shiny chromed look as the rest of the stack . only now the tips are steel . Dont worry guys it looks really good i wouldnt have done it if it had not . like i said ive been thinkin about this for weeks and plannin it out . i dont have a digital camera but ill try to put some pics up as soon as i can .

cool.... pics?

Where are the pics dude...need pics, sounds like u did a way cool job. :thumb

like i said ill try to get them up as soon as i can

like i said ill try to get them up as soon as i can

my bad, didnt see you say you dont have a digi cam atm.

like i said ill try to get them up as soon as i can

my bad, didnt see you say you dont have a digi cam atm.

same here...

Awesome, can't wait to see the pics. This was the main thing keeping me from buying the american version... but if this looks right, then I might save me a few bucks!

Well I noticed that there were holes in the stacks...I figured that someone would figure out a way to make him bigger...up there...(lol sorry, there is this comercial on late night on USA network...if you saw it you would know the reference)

lol my convoy is big naturally, he didnt need that surgery to enlarge the stacks

 

but thats an idea, ill wait on the pics, i wont do it as i got one of each (may buy another convoy though)

I got the takara one so i dont have this small package problem but i would love to see pix of what you've done... maybe it would persuade me to get a US version to fiddle about with for fun...