Continued working on shoulders and upper arms.
Stitched elastic strap with Velcro onto arm piece and riveted on outer plastic shroud.
Attached right shoulder shroud by nylon strap.
Again I had to notch hood to fit shoulder movement.
Found some handy aluminium washers designed for rivets at hardware store, decent price too.
The second shoulder shroud assembled much easier with rivet washers.
Took a 90° angle plastic piece, cut notches on one side, warmed it with heat gun, curved into place, placed one center rivet, let cool.
Then continued around remainder notches, warmed the last tabs again, finished last rivets and let cool.
Final result turned out perfect.
The Autobot logo on side will look cool, white or red color?
So I completed both sides of shoulder and upper arms and did a test wearing it, my mobility so far is good, and should be good with chest fenders and hood attached.
Made some decent progress this weekend.
Worked on shoulder and upper arm assembly.
This green storage bin plastic material is flexible and soft to work with, so I had to use washers on rivets in order to prevent them from compressing all the way through plastic.
Also using the red plastic as reinforcement worked as well.
Had to notch the hood corner off to allow for shoulder piece and movement.
Used as much of the bin lid pieces as possible, and used the preformed angles to my advantage and creativity.
The original arm piece that came with the chest protector will come in useful for the upper arm assembly.
I can rivet green plastic pieces directly to and and use elastic Velcro straps to wrap around arm. The black arm piece will also rivet directly to main shoulder by vinyl strap.
I need to sew on the the elastic Velcro straps first before I rivet everything together.
Fully assembled missile launcher.
Added fins to missile and primer coated.
The green is a little darker than expected, might consider trying other brands/colors of green spray paint for remainder body pieces.
Rubber coated the other two tires and primer coated parts for back assembly.
Started working on trim pieces for under chest assembly, the storage bin grey plastic material is much more flexible material than the black plastic used on Prowl.
Not sure if I want to rivet these on before or after final coat of exterior paint, depends if I want the rivet heads to show or not against the green.
Clifton Forge Con of the Mountain photos
