Hot Toys ED-209 - Rebuild

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Here is the new canopy fitted:




The rim which runs around the canopy on the head will be painted black also. Hot toys didn't paint that black for some reason.

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The piece of plastic tube fits over the hip joint and makes sure the legs are set in a perfectly symmetrical position and stay there:



This white styrene piece i've made will be molded and 4 casts will be glued together and replace the old rubber hip joint:



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Here is a finished hip joint, made from resin to replace the original rubber ones. This part has been the most time consuming part to make believe it or not:



No more rubber!!! Did i say i hate rubber?:


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Here is the gun pod and ammo boxes. I have bolts sticking out of the pod and magnets built into the amo boxes to hold them on:

The detail with the three slots above the bolt head on the pod in the above photo had to be added on this side, as this side was where the rocket launcher was on the pod i molded. I made a partial casting of the pod and cut this section out and glued it on this side.

Ammo boxes fitted:


The hole at the back takes a plastic tube through it which is how its going to be mounted to the arm. You can see how thick the cast pod is by looking at the hole:


Here are the new guns for the left pod. They will have a few wires fitted to them after i've painted them:


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Here is the new gun for the left pod. As you can see, i've used two original parts. I still need to add a few bits to this to attach the wires to:


Some more photos of the new left pod, ammo boxes and guns. Everything here has been reproduced/scratch built:




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Here are the main leg sections in Tamiya Fine Surface Primer. Its the best primer ever, super smooth finish:



Note the magnet inside to hold the silver things on to the side of the legs:


Here is one of the silver things (i don't know what to call them) with a magnet inside:


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I glued the plastic squares onto the leg so the silver things fit in the correct position with an even gap around them:


I added the grey plastic tube to the fitting for the upper leg section and added some thick plastic sheet with a hole in it inside of the upper leg. It just gives some extra support to the legs and spreads the load out rather than it all being at the front face of the upper leg:


The leg tops just push into place and are a nice tight fit:


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Here is the canopy with magnets fitted:


Here you can see the bolts that the magnets in the canopy stick to:




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Some parts painted in tamiya silver. Note the tube that the new pod fits on to:



The new pod push fits in place:



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Here you can see the resin arm joint i made to replace the rubber (the black part):


The deeper more detailed mouth:


The new resin neck painted black:



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