Hmmm, ok. I’m on a tablet and that doesn’t seem to work, neither on mobile or desktop view mode. But thatnks for the tip, I’ll try it on my PC later!
4 Likes
Hey there! I’m the one who tried to replicate the fader bull around 4 years ago… It’s been a while since I’ve gotten back to updating my personal rahi collection but I’m just about to get back to it again and have been looking for instructions n stuff.
Kinda interested to know which stuff you think I completely botched with this guy? I do admit that there are a bit of creative liberties on some parts since there’s literally only one pic (from the book) but am genuinely confused as to which clear parts I missed?
2 Likes
I’d like to know too, since it looks pretty much identical to the one image, at least to me. I can’t see any area that’s obviously incorrectly constructed.
2 Likes
Same, I can’t pinpoint the problem clearly, but in all honesty, I really wanna be proven wrong cause that just means more accurate instructions for the rest of us 
3 Likes
I’ll admit that “clearly” may have been a bit of an overstatement, but this area of the build is what I was referring to:
It’s admittedly difficult to see and it took me a long time to figure out what I was looking at to, but there’s a Rahkshi thigh piece visible in the back of the torso that isn’t in the existing instructions. Including this piece would presumably have significant effects on the rest of the torso build.
The other difference I noticed is what seems to be a white Technic piece with a tan axle connected to it that plugs into the crotch of the black Mata torso:
This has been replaced with a different Technic piece in a dark gray in the existing instructions.
Here’s a screenshot of my own current attempt to replicate the model, showing the Rahkshi thigh and white Technic part:
Obviously this is very incomplete, with a bunch of collisions and floating part that I’m guessing at the location of, but it should give an idea of where this Rahkshi thigh should go.
Also, take note of the pink socket piece; that part was positioned by aligning my model with the image angle as best I could, and then manually adjusting the pink part’s angle and location until it matched the image. The resulting position puts the socket almost exactly in-system with the rest of the build, so I’m somewhat confident that there should be a rigidly-fixed ball joint in that location for the tail.
2 Likes
Ooh, nice catch on that white axle connector! Yeah that does change a lot of things… Although I’m still confused as to how that part on the back is the rahkshi thigh piece. Could you perhaps draw an outline?
Also I do have the boi still fully assembled in storage so if you want me to test your corrections IRL, lmk!
3 Likes
The original image is pretty low quality, but the key things I noticed are the “vents” (red) and the “groove” (green) with an axle sticking out of it (yellow).
(It honestly took me a while to see it as well; it was actually the first piece I thought of when I looked closer at the official image, but I dismissed it originally because, even though I was looking for it specifically, I still couldn’t make it out. When I made out the “vents”, I thought it was a Mata foot until I saw the “groove” and axle, and figured out that my first guess had been right.)
That would be awesome, but I don’t really have anything to test; I’ve figured out basically nothing about the back half except that the Rahkshi thigh goes there *somehow*.
5 Likes
Holy ■■■■… I see it now! Yeah kudos to you for seeing that pattern. Looking forward to your finalized version more now!
2 Likes