Restoration - KO Dino Brace (Abaranger)

After a long long break, I finally completed the KO Dino Brace that was purchased in January... The KO Dino Brace have no spring-loaded mechanisms - all require manual actions. Luckily the mold still retains the cavities and parts that are needed to make the jaw snapping action, so managed to restore the action back with a couple of springs...

2 sound circuits are recorded with the dino-roar and henshin sound before implanted into the body... Tough tough tough work... and realised my reliable soldering iron's tip has finally reached its end days... sigh... time for a replacement...


The dino-roar sound is activated by a soft switch as seen in the picture below. I couldn't fixed it on the lower half of the body where the main sound circuits are, so have to use a longer pair of wires to pull the switch and place it there...


The henshin sounds are activated by switch circled in yellow. There is another switch connected in parallel to the first one (at right of picture; connected at the other ends of the the 2 blue wires) that will also activate the henshin sound when the key-barrel is rotated. Sorry, forgotten to circle the 2nd switch...


Also added a power on-off switch for power-saving...


Here's a quick(???) look at the KO Dino Brace when bought... Looks good actually...except the wrong colours...


...and the repainted version... the yellow velcro strap is from a DX (Za)Bee Zector which had its circuit implanted into a fake KO Gatack Zector long time ago...


I did not restore the spring-out action for the Dino-Harp as I am too lazy, frankly... hahahaha... Most of the paint apps are retained too (instead of repainting to the original Dino Harp colour), as this looks more in-line with the Dino Brace colour scheme...


The main Dino Brace is a crazy weird one... It fuses together with the Dino Commander (key-part)!!! So it is a new morpher??!! The "Dino Brace-Commander"????!!!! Hahahahaha.... I totally love it, man, this is why KOs are great, hahahaha.... I tried putting a red LED with a green one to match the DX's colour for eyes' light but the green LED will be very dim, hence have to use both green LEDs... I think AbareBlue and AbareYellow won't mind...will they???


Here are pictures of the "Dino Brace-Commander" with the different dino-plates on it, as well as the lit up eyes (did not do any mods to the AbareBlack and AbareKiller's faceplates, too lazy)... All dino-plates have the pegs at same position, no difference which dino-plate is put on...


And here's the outcome: