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Thanks, that's what I used to seal the joint in. I filled the hollow hip section with Tamiya putty behind the joint, so it can't back out. I'll play around with it, I think I need more putty to finish this thing Thanks for the support fella's. Some of these mods are easy to do, like moving the shield, and head bar removal. If anyone tries them, let us know how it works, post pics too.

Another pose shot, looks funny without the cod piece. The feet need more poseability to keep up with the hips now...

Unattatched you can see the metal rod better. Sorry about the blur.

I was going to wait until I had the other one done (I had to order new parts because I broke one of the ball sockets). But, I can post the one I have done. I'm going to try and change this setup to get rid of the long post, so all of the parts between the hips will likely change before I'm done. This is before cleanup mind you...

Yes, I will have to think of a way to do this. It would be nice if they made mini routers, with mini tables too The crotch guard... I am thinking about making it detatchable, but I may not have to yet. I would like to be able to see the gunpod from the front view in any case with no big lump between the intakes. This also means removing and recreating a different mount for the legs. I think this project is going to take a few months.

Doh, I assumed on that one, thanks for the correction.

Goodbye landing gear. I will fill the holes (on the legs too), and scribe in some of those cool looking stealth type landing gear doors, but probably won't have working landing gear (I'll think about it still). I am going to do some more sanding up front here, and then add some filler under the nose from the cockpit forward, and try to get it to look more like the Hasegawa kit. I have a question though, what's a good filler to use for major mods like this?

The landing gear sucks, sucks, sucks. I hate it, I would never use it because it's so ugly, sooooooo....

That's my favorite paint scheme. Nice work!

Perfect fit now. (except the head laser points up now unless you put it underneath the shield)

Voila!

I dremeled out the bar section and some of the sides, and...

I wondered why this was...

The head in fighter and gerwalk sticks up too high...

Tonight I sanded down the giant wint mount points, and some of the wing edges. The top mount points have been eliminated, and the bottoms have been shortened about 1/3. I will fill the top sections when all of the major mods are complete. In order for the screw to be able to sit flush you have to sand down the little arm that comes off of the leg into the wing. I also had to cut about 1/3rd of the spring off. Amazingly, the wing ratchet is tighter now!

Good idea for next time I guess, the yellow sub joints have been backordered for months... I'm already stuck with the wav/koto combo as I've just epoxied one side together

For the crotch ball joints I used the following... KBYD-718G Kotobukiya Poly Unit Start Set #1 (Gray) and WAVOP-201 Wave L-Joint 1 (HLJ has the wrong picture for this item) The Wave joint by itself snapped together well, but was completely loose inside the socket. The Kotobukiya joint did not snap together well, but it was pretty tight. I got the idea to put the ball from the Kotobukiya set inside the socket from the Wave set, and it snapped together well (will not come out ever), and was way tighter than just the Kotobukiya parts by themselves. Problem was that I had to use pliers to snap them together, and I ended up breaking the second socket. So I have to order new ones. Next problem was that since the new combo was so tight, the shaft of the Kotobukiya ball broke off after moving it a few times. There's no way it would stand up to toy type playing, so I then drilled a hole in the ball and cut off a section of the drill bit, and used that as the new shaft. Hopefully this pic helps explain what I did.

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Mod #2 tonight, closing up the gap between the shield and the head in fighter mode. I just drilled a hold closer to the head. I used white out on the tab to mark where the new hole should be, then chopped off the smaller tab on the shield.

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Jaf Con 9 1/72 Ghost (regular non fastpack version)