Step 6: Where to Carve on Forearm
Emo readers take note, I’m talking about Bumblebee’s forearm.
Man, that joke almost makes me want the repaint…
Archive for November, 2008
Awesome Stingers and You, part 5
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Awesome Stingers and You, part 4
Friday, November 14th, 2008Step 4: Where to cut on the new stinger piece
Remove the two stinger halves from your extra Bumblebee. Next, you need to cut the plastic so each singer looks like the following pictures.
Awesome Stingers and You, part 3
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Step 3: Where to cut on the main stinger piece
You may have noticed by now that the stinger wasn’t molded to fit the way we want it to. Sorry kids, just turning it around and putting the pin back in isn’t going to cut it, so instead we’ll cut on Bumblebee…
Dealing with a Pin Hinge
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008A Pin hinge can be tricky at first. If you’ve never kit bashed before, the most you’ve probably fiddled with were screws, and information on how to tackle removal of the pin can be hard to find. The method I use is the most common, though there are those that swear by a fine tipped soldering iron.
I never thought I’d say this, but I think using a hammer is the safer way.
Awesome Stingers and You, part 2
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Step 1: Cut a Hole in the Box
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Step 1: Obtain an Extra Bumblebee
This step should be self-explanatory, but that’s not stopped me before…
Awesome Stingers and You, Part 1
Monday, November 10th, 2008Animated Bumblebee is an underrated figure, hobbled with the cheap appearance of yellow plastic, different tones of yellow, and a crappy stinger gimmick. In spite of this, I really wanted to like the little guy.
But something had to be done about his stinger. He needed something better looking, and two of them!
Action Pose – Grimlock Badass
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Another example of why minimates are awesome…
Can’t scrub, Clown’ll soap me…
Monday, November 3rd, 2008So, I’m sitting on the toilet and-
What, you don’t think it bodes too well when a story starts out like that?