Haul from Taobao finally came... and I learnt an important lesson : Never buy through ezBuy agent after October... they thought they can handle with all the promotions they throw out since the 10.10, but they are proven very wrong, either too short in manpower than anticipated, or their current SOP is not designed to handle such big flow, and the good old quality standard never came back even till now... sigh... Anyway, count myself lucky that I got most of the items ordered... Here goes (for Transformers and such items, visit my other blog My KO Transformers and Such ):
First up is the DX Zyuoh Buster... A bit of surprise to find it so small... of course the biggest nitpick will be the small butter-knife-like blade, hahahaha... May do some modifications if got time... Cost about SGD32.05, round up to the nearest 5 cents, hahahaha...
Next is a loose Goton Yo Shuriken... Costs SGD12.65... This is the version that has mainly only sound effects and only 1 line when button at bottom is pressed longer...
Next, the DX Giri Giri ChamBara Gashat for my little nephew... Cost about SGD31.55 ...
And could not resist these 2 (types of) gashats: DX Drago Knight Hunter Z (Cost about SGD64.75) and Let's Go Ichigou (Cost about SGD28) gashat(s)!!!... yeap, 1 of the DX Drago Knight Hunter Z is for my little nephew...
So today make up my mind to spray paint the DX Drago Knight Hunter Z to gold.. actually it looks more like copper... hmmm... conned by the spray paint label...
Anyway, looks so much better than the original plastic colour!!! hahahaha...
Shift Cars modification Part 2!!! Modify the remaining ones into their "enhanced" form... actually is just to differentiate between my little nephew's and mine... hahahahaha....
And here's a short clip to show the displays made by the driver...
I have a gashapon T2 Joker Gaia Memory. I have a candy toy Maximum Drive Slot that shouts "Joker Maximum Drive". Ugghh. Gashapon T2 Joker Gaia Memory : Joker Maximum Drive sounds.
When I got this Deluxe Gosei Morpher, I was searching high and low for a power on-off switch, which many minutes later then I realised there isn't one... which is quite unacceptable for me, as this means, like many of the Japanese Gaia Memories, gashapon (capsule toy) and shokugan (candy toy) lock seeds etc, battery life for the toy can be draining and accidental activation will be common and "unavoidable" (1 ex-minister in my country popularized this word)... and some-more this is supposed to be a deluxe (DX) toy...
... so I added a small slide switch to act as the power on-off switch (battery's +ve terminal to switch before going to the circuit)...
It is a bit ugly when look from close up, but really it is not that bad... and more importantly, it works... hahahahaha....
Finally completed my KO DX Daidaimaru and KO DX Musou Saber blade mods and sound restorations... long long overdue...
Added 4 LEDs for Daidaimaru to light up the translucent display piece. Sound chip is retained from the original KO toy. Also added a power on-off switch to save battery life. Here's the core of the new bigger blade for the Daidaimaru, hot-glued to 1 side of the Daidaimaru... though I did not make it as big as I initially wanted because the handle was too small to begin with...
2 thinner pieces of ABS was then cut to cover the 2 sides of the core blade...
... and hot-glued to seal the edge...
As mentioned earlier, the sound circuit is the one that comes with this KO toy, and surprisingly, it is able to power up 4 red LEDs quite nicely... I muffled the speakers to be of the similar volume as the Musou Saber's (self-recorded) sounds...
And after adding a power on-off switch, the KO Daidaimaru is restored...
Next is the Musou Saber, which has a super short blade even for the authentic version... Made a longer blade (core) and also a top cover... looks much better...
... especially when compared to the original blade length... 2 thinner pieces are also added tot he core for the blade surface pattern...
A new 4.5V button cell battery compartment is added to replace the 3V one that was on the original KO toy, as my sound recording circuits use 4.5V...
... and added sounds for the normal gun shooting, sword slashing (sounds recorded from the authentic DX Musou Saber toy), "lock on and count up till Infinite Number" and final attack sound (sounds recorded from DX DJ Gun). But these circuits do not have light when playback, and also I was lazy to make a transistor-amp circuit for the light, there is basically no light for this toy, except for the "lock-on and count up to Infinite Number" sound, which uses an earlier sound recording circuit that has light when playback... Doesn't matter to me as the Daidaimaru already has 4 LEDs... hahahaha...
Final comparison picture....
A quick demo clip for the restoration of my DX KOs of the Kamen Rider Gaim toys. All are bootleg / KO versions. Forget to mention I restored the "lock on" sound feature for Sengoku Driver; partial failure because the activating switch is unstable, the "lock on" sound may sometimes be accidentally activated when the blade cuts the lock seed cover, especially if the lock seed is not properly tight fixed into the lock seed hole... and due to the type of sound recording circuit used, the "lock on" sound will also be activated when the activating switch is released (authentic driver has a "lock off" sound), but this I don't mind...
