Need Help! ok, either i suck bad at cutting, or these plaplates from tamiya are damn hard to cut and shape!!! these are the following tools i used-
1)Hobby knife-Broke it in half trying to cut through the plaplates...
2)Sicissors- Managed to cut the plaplates, but the plaplates are pretty much ruined...
3)Jig-saw- You wouldn't even want to know the results...

sigh....can anyone give some advice?

For those who are interested, What i did to the knee joint was acctually pretty simple. Here are the steps...

Step 1-As you can c here, I separated the white piece of armour that is blocking the movement of the upper thigh. I then proceeded to widen the hole(diameter-2mm) at the inner frame.I also made a simillar hole on the armour piece. A simillar diameter plaplate was then fited into the hole and the armour piece. After letting the cement cure overnight, I placed on the entire armour parts together to measure how much wider do i need to 'elevate' the little armour piece to enable the upper thigh armour to pass through. After that, i removed the extra plaplates. The following pic is the end result.


Step 2- After dealing with the bottom piece, Now i have to remove the plastic cable look-alike's on the knee joint as these pieces hinder the movement of the upper thigh. This is the part where it's a little hard to describe...basically, you have to study the knee joint by yourself to c which part you have to slice off to allow the upper thigh to move freely. After removing the unwanted pieces, drill holes at the previous position where the plastic cables were.One on top, and one on the bottom. Grab some malleable wire* i used the koto wires which were easy enuff to shape, but were also strong enough to withstand any movement.Diameter-0.8mm* and some uh...what do you call those things...the insulator for the wires? Basically the plastic thing that covers the internal wires in cables. Slide the koto wire into the 'insulator' and from there, measure the distance needed to place the wire onto the knee armour. The most important thing about shaping the wire is that this wire needs to be as close to the knee joint as possible so that the upper thigh armour can pass through the wire without any problems.


That is all! if you want further leg bending, you have to remove more armour parts which will alter the looks of the original model.

This post has been edited by WaytoDawn: Jan 6 2008, 01:35 PM