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bump. Now that I've got a bit of time, I'm going to start working through my backlog of photoshoots. First, something that anyone has frequented CBox has probably heard me talk about: my Frame Musume project. Here's some pictures of me and the girls putting together a RAcaseal, a very Shinki-like kit from Kotobukiya; it happens to be modeled by Apsy, same as the MMS base bodies. Thanks to ZeroEdge for finding it; you can see his own use of it as a base body for customs over in his excellent thread.
The RAcaseal Redria kit actually lets you build two subtly different sizes; I built the smaller of the two, which stands somewhere between an MMS3rd Tall and MMS3rd Small. All of which are shorter than 'Rythæ and other MMS1sts.
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While RAcaseals don't have the unique hips Shinki do, they do have a combination ball joint and pivot, giving them a good amount of flexibility, as 'Rythæ demonstrates below.
They have a small flap on a hinge that makes up the outer hip that gives them a pretty good leg bend. Also, they have ball-jointed thighs. Not hips (though those are ball-jointed too), but ball-jointed thigh swivels.
Now, while this isn't how I'm planning to implement the Frame Musume base, I decided to have some fun after I found out that RAcaseals and Frame Arms share some peg sizes.
The size is almost perfect; if I could link the two at the limbs, the whole thing would still be relatively flexible, thanks to the double joints of the Frame Architect.
From the side.
Just need a flag to plant on top of the crate.
Since Konami has deprived us of bikers, I decided to go ahead and make my own. Here's some test shots with the raw materials:
When I was transforming the Wilber Nine back into robot mode, his hands (taken from a spare Architect) were positioned like such, and thus was Meowber Nine born in my mind. The final form is going to have cat ears and may be quadrupedal if I can figure out how.