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seanacid — Perler Cubee Optimus Prime
Published: 2012-03-31 21:13:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 1756; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 4
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I was proud of the Tigerzord, but it was giddy excitement the first time I put this in truck mode and knew that the design really did work after all. The square head with no extra parts was a necessary evil for it to fit inside the body.Transformation is of course achieved by separating the five pieces and putting them back together.
Completed March 2012
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You are going to cause me to retire from beading because of your awesome powers. This transforming concept is insanely cool
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Oh no! For what it's worth, I still haven't figured out the swivel-arm design that you have on the Minecraft guy.
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PixelSculptures: Secrets Revealed
I'm sure there are other ways, but the way I have been doing it is to start with a few single beads flattened down on each side. These make collars to go around snippets of large paperclips. Just thread the paperclip snippet through the appropriate holes on each touching face, and use the flattened single beads to hold it on. You are basically looking to get the bead hole small enough to fit tight on the paperclip, but not so flat it's not there.
It can be a little tricky getting everything together, but it's held well so far. The only issue I had was one customer's son was actually playing with one, and the arm wiggled off. They sent it back and I rebuilt the arm, supergluing the collars on this time. Otherwise, they usually hold pretty well just sliding them on.
I actually thought that you had a technique like this in one of your transformers. It looked like when you laid it down forward, the arms just rotated down with it. Guess you just had it as a bead to snap out and rotate?
I haven't been building so much stuff recently, been thinking about just getting into the instructional side, like I did here, with pics/vids on how to do different techniques. Probably even sharing my layouts for building what I've built so far. Selling stuff is nice, but I put too much pressure on myself to do it. I really just like the fun of figuring out how to do stuff, and then maybe sharing this knowledge off to others
Anyways... Hope this made sense!
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