Too Much Garlic
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Here's the Tested video again.
I think there are 3 different styles of T2 hands, so it depends on what you're trying to replicate. There are super simplified rubber hands/forearms that were used on many of the endoskeletons with really garbage looking piston/rod attachments (static with no motion), then there's a mid-tier I've seen that has better looking pistons and rod attachments and might be capable of finger articulation (might have only facilitated posing from scene to seen... unsure). Then there are the hero style hands with all the extra curves, grooves, and real cabling that make them possible to puppeteer. The Endo arm in the vault is a hero style (until it smashes into the ground and swaps to a rubber version for a bit). The arm we see when Arnold peels his skin off is a hero style arm, and it the full Endoskeleton at Lightstorm has hero style hands.Yeah, the movie ones had the thin palm piece.
The "piston" pieces are also on T2 hands. But I am not sure if T2 also started using the ones seen on the LFS kit - simplified versions with the grooves at the ends sanded down. I was planning on adding the grooves back in on the models I made from the LFS ones.
Yes, I saw, handled, and photographed it. It's a plastic casting.Cool. Yeah... we are trying to replicate the hero style.
Did you see the T1 lower arm castings at Bob Burns? Wonder what they made them for.
In that video I only heard him point out the cable shaft collars and the wrist universal joints as being found parts. His finger was near the palm pistons while speaking, but it looked like he was pointing to the collars.Here's the Tested video again.
The alignment of the upper/lower toe piston rods is a real problem. You're right about that!How did you angle things so that the top pistons are placed wider than the bottom pistons?
I think you're right about the Bob Burns hand, looks similar to the explosion scene:Yeah, a lot of things were simplified for the LFS kits - either the normal alteration done to distinguish from original castings, or to make things easier to mold and cast. Or, it was idiosyncracies seen on the endoskeleton used to mold and make casts from. Though. The LFS kit is not from just 1 source. It seems to be from several different sources, with some cast from screen used thrown in here and there. There's definitely some T2:3D store front endo parts in there, even parts manufactured specifically for that piece. There are a few pieces from the endo seen in T2 lying damaged and being shot, but I only identified the battery cover and feet (piston parts). Uncertain about the back torso piece. Chest looks T2:3D storefront.
Having the pistons on the feet done solid non-functional will make it easier to bend the bottom ones into their slots. You see they are fake on the Lightstorm endo, but I can't tell if they are functional or fake on the T1.
I was thinking... maybe the arms seen at Bob Burns came from a mold that made the blow-up endo at the end of T1?
I don't think the bottom clevis parts match the ones you circled. They don't seem to have the same length or bevels. I DO think that they may be the same parts as the ones closer to the toe ends:Looking at the T1 foot above. Are the fork heads the bottom pistons connect to the same, or similar style, as the ones at the top pistons connecting to the foot piece? They kinda look the same.
Sorry for the crude encirclings.
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I don't think it's on "backwards" I think the heel is from a different generation of Endoskeleton. As you mentioned some parts came from different places... who knows. I can roughly rotate it in photoshop to give you an idea of how it would look though:And another thing. I often wondered if the LFS heel part of the ankle was added upside down, so the angle was steeper?
If cutting it off, rotating it 180°, would it then sit right?
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