I voted for launching. Plain and simple.

 

 

He' while you're at it you should make his head turnable, close those holes around his neck, and if needed rip out the electronics to mabe make his head retractable in vehicle mode + get rid of that turret-helmet-thing and maybe the missiles ... or not, might be a matter of taste ;)

 

dammit that was my idea(s)! :lol jk but still

Crap. Now I need to buy a Voyager Bulkhead. They got me, they finally got me.

I'd say launch it. It sounds more fun to have! :tfgrin

this looks like a great mod any progress on it? I would like to incorporate it into my own LC Bulkhead.

this looks like a great mod any progress on it? I would like to incorporate it into my own LC Bulkhead.

 

I'm getting ready to start on it again. I just moved and am still settling in. Thanks for the interest, though. Once it's done I'll post a guide as well.

 

~Matt Booker

this looks like a great mod any progress on it? I would like to incorporate it into my own LC Bulkhead.

 

I'm getting ready to start on it again. I just moved and am still settling in. Thanks for the interest, though. Once it's done I'll post a guide as well.

 

~Matt Booker

hey I know how it is when it comes to moving. I am doing that in about a week....

this looks like a great mod any progress on it? I would like to incorporate it into my own LC Bulkhead.

 

I'm getting ready to start on it again. I just moved and am still settling in. Thanks for the interest, though. Once it's done I'll post a guide as well.

 

~Matt Booker

hey I know how it is when it comes to moving. I am doing that in about a week....

 

Yes, moving is kind of a rush to get everything situatied, but it went well and my collection survived the trip. Today I just got access to the internet again. Woo. Gonna post a Blitzwing guide in a few days, and then a Swoop guide, and hopefully by then I'll have more progress on the Bulkhead mod. :)

 

Thanks for the interest, though!

 

~Matt Booker

Hey Matt, you ever finish modding BH's buzzsaw hand? I just picked him up the other night and would much prefer he has two hands/clamps instead of just one. I did flip the saw, so that helps some, but still, two hands FTW!

Hey Matt, you ever finish modding BH's buzzsaw hand? I just picked him up the other night and would much prefer he has two hands/clamps instead of just one. I did flip the saw, so that helps some, but still, two hands FTW!

 

He's still on my 'to do' list. I was going to start working on Swoop's guide, but bought Classics Ironhide today and had to fix him. And since nobody that I've found (either here or on tfw2005) actually fixed all the issues with his head moving up all the way, I had to come up with a way.

 

So, the general idea is there. Just haven't done it yet.

 

~Matt Booker

He's still on my 'to do' list. I was going to start working on Swoop's guide, but bought Classics Ironhide today and had to fix him. And since nobody that I've found (either here or on tfw2005) actually fixed all the issues with his head moving up all the way, I had to come up with a way.

 

So, the general idea is there. Just haven't done it yet.

 

~Matt Booker

 

Thanks for the heads up on Bulkhead, looking forward to seeing it(and Swoop's too!). I got Ironhide last week and went to work on him...damn man, he's a mess.

 

Something I posted over in another thread, might help you some, no pics tho.

 

Well, I decided to have a long drawn out talk with Ironhide about his drooping head. Suffice it to say, there is a fix, but damn it's an ugly one.

 

I started off trimming away the entire bumper section underneath and in line with the license plate in hopes that would seat his chest/abdomen onto the central spine area. Well, that got it part of the way there. I noticed on the upper section at the top square(silver area) that it was about roughly an 1/8 inch to long in front and that was not letting the rest of the unmodified/folded up bumper assembly move far enough inwards.

 

You can remove the entire upper section of IH(it's red, the lower assembly is the silver molder area) by pulling up on him, and the knob will come out of the socket without much of a problem. This made it easier to trim that piece back some and once I had that done I put him back together, and the problem still persisted!

 

I reviewed the instruction to make sure I had not mistransformed him, and by the mfgr's instruction, all was correct. This led me back to a detailed investigation of the build of Ironhide and how he transformed. One thing I was noticing was that once you tucked the back tires behind him and in the roof/front windshield box, I could not get his head to move any further than before. If I left the back tires and their panels folded out behind his elbows, then it would fit and all was well. This led me to check out the roof/windshield box to see what was keeping the back tires from fitting properly, still nothing noticeable from several angles. I wound up removing the 5 tiny screws and getting the roof box off and then folding down the flat roof spine and moved the tires back into place, BAM!, we have proper head alignment!

 

But now poor IH is without a roof and front windshield. I noticed that the roof spine/support and the back panels the tires were pinned to was not fitting flush(if it is positioned like it should be with the roof box attached), the panels were setting like this: "\ _ /" instead of like this "|_|". That could very well be the entire problem. I'm pondering if I want to continue this experiment or not and if doing so would compromise structural integrity of the piece.

 

Luckily he does not look to butchered up until you see his back bumper in alt mode.

 

Hope that helps you help the rest of us.