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Very cool figures -- glad you put them back together again; now promise you won't be taking them apart! And those curtains almost work as a forest background.

GubernatorFan wrote:Very cool figures -- glad you put them back together again; now promise you won't be taking them apart! And those curtains almost work as a forest background.

LOL! No chance of touching them again, got way too much stuff to do on this thread alone with another hundred builds following those!! The curtains come with the house so not my taste but at least they have a vague Asian vibe to them with the sort of water colour look depicting almost Japanese jasmine, blossoms etc...

Those look great. And I agree, don’t tear them apart — they look good the way they are.

Mmm, bunch of stuff there I've not seen before, you've been a busy bee! I have too, but for the wrong reasons. Hit a menu item I shouldn't have after installing a new graphics card in my PC, it royally screwed it and I had to start from scratch. Luckily, I still had my hard drive and could wipe my SSD and re-clone my hard drive onto it. Then, I had a display port cable fail on me and found the mains lead for my monitor was dodgy. So glad it all happened last week, as tomorrow that hard drive is going in my niece's new PC I'm building for her.

All good fun, LOL!

CHEERS!

Stryker2011 wrote:Those look great. And I agree, don’t tear them apart — they look good the way they are.

Thanks!Never touching them again except for hooking the electrics back up!

Rogerbee wrote:
Mmm, bunch of stuff there I've not seen before, you've been a busy bee! I have too, but for the wrong reasons. Hit a menu item I shouldn't have after installing a new graphics card in my PC, it royally screwed it and I had to start from scratch. Luckily, I still had my hard drive and could wipe my SSD and re-clone my hard drive onto it. Then, I had a display port cable fail on me and found the mains lead for my monitor was dodgy. So glad it all happened last week, as tomorrow that hard drive is going in my niece's new PC I'm building for her.

All good fun, LOL!

CHEERS!

I'd wondered where you'd been hiding! LOL. Bad luck mate, been having PC issues myself, trying to install win10 64bit on win10 32bit is a bloody nightmare when your bios won't recognise any usb drives including my back up HDD! Tried installing new drivers for this PC from Dell themselves and it very nearly killed the PC, I only managed to save it with a recovery cdrom! Still won't recognise anything in bios including the main HDD now! Still starts up okay thank goodness, no idea how!LOL.

Done more work on Rescue, giving her modified Hasbro hands that are slightly smaller than the HT IM ones and way smaller than the skeletal like UM ones so they're the right size for a lady. Also decided to paint the entire lower jaw of the helmet red to match some Rescue reference pics and make the helmet look less masculine as the jaw is less prominent in a darker colour. I also hand sawed around 40 steel screws to fill in the holes on the Bionicle bits of the gantry's new arms I made. Bastard neighbour decided to use his circular saw on MDF on a Sunday afternoon while I was purposely trying to be quiet by using a hacksaw! I yelled all kinds of hell at him when he took a break. Every bloody day at 14:00 he starts the electric saw on MDF, he's retired, what the hell is he up to? They go to bed at 22:00 on the dot and get up at 06:00 on the dot everyday, noisy washing line goes up the same time everyday etc.. I'm living next to f***ing robots!!
I really want to throw a grenade over the wall some days! Especially when he gets his noisy ladder out to clean his walls and roof...bonkers.. rant over...















Still WIP











I had to cut way more than these!

What is your BIOS? Do you even have the right one installed? I'd look for whatever model of motherboard you have and make sure you have the right BIOS installed. Do you have an .iso for the version of Windows you're trying to install? If you get one then you can wipe the 32bit one and install the 64bit in its place. Or that should be what would happen. Does your current BIOS even support 64bit?

If I were you, I'd be seriously considering jacking the PC you have in and starting anew from the ground up, it's the only way to ensure that that you get will work. If you go for an AMD AM3+ board and processor CCL are doing these at knock down prices as they're being phased out in favour of the AMD Ryzen AM4 boards. The AM3+ ones are just as good only a lot cheaper. Seriously, give CCL a look see.

I upgraded the hard drive, CPU and graphics card in mine and it is right up there with the best now, and for half the money.

CHEERS!

You have been busy. I like the color elements on her helmet. That first cosplayer image armor looks great. I like the battle-damage she was able to pull off; are you going for that look, or the pristine, shiny look? Either one would be pretty cool.

Rogerbee wrote:What is your BIOS? Do you even have the right one installed? I'd look for whatever model of motherboard you have and make sure you have the right BIOS installed. Do you have an .iso for the version of Windows you're trying to install? If you get one then you can wipe the 32bit one and install the 64bit in its place. Or that should be what would happen. Does your current BIOS even support 64bit?

If I were you, I'd be seriously considering jacking the PC you have in and starting anew from the ground up, it's the only way to ensure that that you get will work. If you go for an AMD AM3+ board and processor CCL are doing these at knock down prices as they're being phased out in favour of the AMD Ryzen AM4 boards. The AM3+ ones are just as good only a lot cheaper. Seriously, give CCL a look see.

I upgraded the hard drive, CPU and graphics card in mine and it is right up there with the best now, and for half the money.

CHEERS!

All parts are OEM except GC, HDD (bigger) and processor (replaced a broken one but it's 64 bit). I'm trying to install the 64bit windows but need bios to be able to read the flashdrive. I can't build anything as I'm skint lol!.

Stryker2011 wrote:You have been busy. I like the color elements on her helmet. That first cosplayer image armor looks great. I like the battle-damage she was able to pull off; are you going for that look, or the pristine, shiny look? Either one would be pretty cool.

Cheers Mark! I'll be sticking to a new suit look.

Hope you figure out the computer drama to your satisfaction. Seems like you still found time to make more progress on this impressive project. I second what Mark said, and also very impressed by the real-hair helmeted head sculpt.

shovelchop81 wrote:

All parts are OEM  except GC, HDD (bigger) and processor (replaced a broken one but it's 64 bit). I'm trying to install the 64bit windows but need bios to be able to read the flashdrive. I can't build anything as I'm skint lol!.

The processor may be 64bit, but, are you sure the motherboard and BIOS are? You can't always fit a Ferrari engine into a Beetle. I hope you find something workable till you can afford something else.

CHEERS!

GubernatorFan wrote:Hope you figure out the computer drama to your satisfaction. Seems like you still found time to make more progress on this impressive project. I second what Mark said, and also very impressed by the real-hair helmeted head sculpt.

I can't take the credit for the PP helmeted head as it came that way, it's either the HT version or the clone, I have both but think the clone looked slightly better but can't remember which one this is! LOL.

Rogerbee wrote:

shovelchop81 wrote:

All parts are OEM  except GC, HDD (bigger) and processor (replaced a broken one but it's 64 bit). I'm trying to install the 64bit windows but need bios to be able to read the flashdrive. I can't build anything as I'm skint lol!.

The processor may be 64bit, but, are you sure the motherboard and BIOS are? You can't always fit a Ferrari engine into a Beetle. I hope you find something workable till you can afford something else.

CHEERS!

Not sure now about the processor, thought I'd replaced it with a stock one though so the rest should support it.

There will always be something. When I tried to swap my hard drives over, I forgot that I'd configured the old HDD as RAID, SSD's can't be that. However Windows would only boot if the HDD was RAID. Took me ages to find a simple command line that would fix that.

The answers are there, it just takes forever to find the right one

CHEERS!

Rogerbee wrote:
There will always be something. When I tried to swap my hard drives over, I forgot that I'd configured the old HDD as RAID, SSD's can't be that. However Windows would only boot if the HDD was RAID. Took me ages to find a simple command line that would fix that.

The answers are there, it just takes forever to find the right one

CHEERS!

I'm just leaving the pc 'as is' for the moment.

Finished Rescue, might do the odd touch up like on her boots.
Painted all the gantry arms black, they still need to be airbrushed a graphite metallic. Done half the tedious EL-Wire work using regular super glue very carefully as the gel stuff I bought is garbage! It probably needs an accelerator or something. The bloody wire shorted out on me when I went to test it after all that work (and loss of finger tips) which is not ideal... I seem to have found the trouble spot but there's not quick permanent fix with this stuff so I'll just try gluing in place there to keep the internal micro wires connected, one must have broken.















Don't buy this for a quick setting glue!

Whoah! Very cool. Pepper turned out great, and the light on the gantry are looking awesome.

Some glues can be hit or miss, that’s for sure. I gave up on Loctite just recently. Switched over to Gorilla Glue, and so far so good.

Looking good, another winner in the making!

CHEERS!

She looks gorgeous, and the gantry is coming along beautifully!

Stryker2011 wrote:Whoah! Very cool. Pepper turned out great, and the light on the gantry are looking awesome.

Some glues can be hit or miss, that’s for sure. I gave up on Loctite just recently. Switched over to Gorilla Glue, and so far so good.

Thank you Mark! Now I know why the Loctite was on sale, nearly bought the Gorilla Glue, should have but I'm used to Loctite being a top brand for mechanical applications for guns and bikes etc..

Rogerbee wrote:Looking good, another winner in the making!

CHEERS!

Thanks Roger!

GubernatorFan wrote:She looks gorgeous, and the gantry is coming along beautifully!

Cheers GF! I'm in 'slow mode' right now but also have been working on non 1/6 stuff too.

shovelchop81 wrote:

Stryker2011 wrote:Whoah! Very cool. Pepper turned out great, and the light on the gantry are looking awesome.

Some glues can be hit or miss, that’s for sure. I gave up on Loctite just recently. Switched over to Gorilla Glue, and so far so good.

Thank you Mark! Now I know why the Loctite was on sale, nearly bought the Gorilla Glue, should have but I'm used to Loctite being a top brand for mechanical applications for guns and bikes etc..

It could have been an old batch, too, though. I just found for plastics, Gorilla Glue seems to work a bit better. And you can get that precision tip that screws on and off easily (doesn't end up glueing itself to the cap -- I wonder if there's enough space between the cap and the tip to keep it from doing that like other SGs tend to).

Stryker2011 wrote:

shovelchop81 wrote:

Stryker2011 wrote:Whoah! Very cool. Pepper turned out great, and the light on the gantry are looking awesome.

Some glues can be hit or miss, that’s for sure. I gave up on Loctite just recently. Switched over to Gorilla Glue, and so far so good.

Thank you Mark! Now I know why the Loctite was on sale, nearly bought the Gorilla Glue, should have but I'm used to Loctite being a top brand for mechanical applications for guns and bikes etc..

It could have been an old batch, too, though. I just found for plastics, Gorilla Glue seems to work a bit better. And you can get that precision tip that screws on and off easily (doesn't end up glueing itself to the cap -- I wonder if there's enough space between the cap and the tip to keep it from doing that like other SGs tend to).

Sounds good but I go through so much SG I buy large bottles of the stuff for cheap!LOL. Gorilla Glue would have to be for special uses only.

And I thought 5m of wire would be far too long...bugger... I should be able to buy a meter on it's own to finish the lighting.

You know, it looks pretty much complete to me (I'm no expert on these things), but I think I see where you would be adding more. Very cool either way.

That looks really good, as good, if not better, than HT could do it for way more money.

CHEERS!

Man that looks really cool. That light effect really makes that piece.

GubernatorFan wrote:You know, it looks pretty much complete to me (I'm no expert on these things), but I think I see where you would be adding more. Very cool either way.

Rogerbee wrote:
That looks really good, as good, if not better, than HT could do it for way more money.

CHEERS!

Stryker2011 wrote:Man that looks really cool. That light effect really makes that piece.

Thank you guys! I ordered 50cm more, it'll mean making a splitter and I hope the mains power converter won't blow the shorter piece but fingers crossed should work even if I have to resort to batteries. I'll be cutting sections out of the floor as retracting panels with smaller arms coming out like in the movie; I'll also be painting the floor and steps black as per the movie too.

Wow, you make me shiver in my boots with my own project. It will look so amateurish! I'm in awe!

Peaches wrote:Wow, you make me shiver in my boots with my own project.  It will look so amateurish!  I'm in awe!

Don’t get discouraged, Peaches. Everyone has to start somewhere. ShovelChop has been at this for quite some time, and he’s a maestro at thinking outside the box. I’m sure your project will turn out cool.

Peaches wrote:Wow, you make me shiver in my boots with my own project.  It will look so amateurish!  I'm in awe!

Don't doubt your abilities, everyone's their own worst critic! Yes experience and techniques go a long way to improving custom work but that can all be learnt over time, there's no rush, enjoy learning something new everyday, I still do! I also get frustrated at times, it's only natural, just take a break and do something else for a bit and come back with fresh eyes. 'Keep The Faith' as Bon Jovi say LOL.

Stryker2011 wrote:

Peaches wrote:Wow, you make me shiver in my boots with my own project.  It will look so amateurish!  I'm in awe!

Don’t get discouraged, Peaches. Everyone has to start somewhere. ShovelChop has been at this for quite some time, and he’s a maestro at thinking outside the box. I’m sure your project will turn out cool.

Exactly, share your work with pride and pick up any tips while you're at it if you feel you need them. Cheers Mark! Then I use the box to make something...

The lighting you've added really does take it to another level, I'm loving it!

skywalkersaga wrote:The lighting you've added really does take it to another level, I'm loving it!

Thank you SWS!

Got the last bit of EL-Wire to install then make a splitter. I finally got around to painting the mechanical arms but now have to work out how to attach them best, probably magnets like the original ones. I built my first Master Grade Gundam figure (the other was Perfect Grade), it's amazing how small they turn out when compared to their boxes which come jam packed with runners of parts, just a lot of engineering in one little figure.