Toy, showing off the hand transformation

[the_s_guy]

The hand pieces aren't completely finalised, but it's just a matter of fine-tuning from here. Here's the somewhat complex hand transformation, for those who are interested.

Comments

[tainry]

Why the two nested "lids"?

[the_s_guy]

The first lid doubles as a set of tank treads - the red area will have tank-tread detail in it in the final version.

The second lid has two functions. Firstly, it covers up two underlying flip-outs (the robot hand and half of the dinosaur head from the last post) when the primary lid is open for tank mode (it'll also have tank detailing added, or at least a splash of red for visual interest).

Secondly, it forms the lower panel of the side of the dinosaur head itself. I had the panels coloured green in the last post to highlight them, but I didn't add that to the primary model, so it's not showing up green here. It's a little confusing, as the red bits are part of the primary model - I haven't finished putting all the permanent colour on.

Effectively, the internal lid should be red on the outside and green on the inside. Christmassy!

[tainry]

Aha! Very slick.
Heeee! :D

And also, dear Primus I wish it was you doing the transformation instructions for the toys................... XD

[the_s_guy]

Heh. I don't know about that - this was knocked up in MS-Paint in about half an hour. Not the greatest way to go about it. ;)

[the_s_guy]

Oh, and thirdly, now I think about it:

A side effect of the transformation subdesigns I've been using on this toy is that pretty much everything folds away into bland, neat cubes and cube stacks. However, there is a LOT of kibble hidden under the skin.

This means that the robot mode can be either Blando McBlanderson, or walk around with fourteen zillion bits of kibble and detail hanging out (wings, guns, jets, claws, antennae etc).

One of these options is in the design of the forearm here. The outside lid, instead of folding back into a neat, pristine block, can continue to fold around a full 270 degrees into tank mode, where the red panel is basically attached to the side of the forearm which lines up with the back of the wrist.

This means the robot mode can optionally sport bright crimson tank details there to make it look more interesting, while the interior lid still hides the hand-slot in the forearm (and the dino head) and makes it look smooth.