In more detail, either it can have hip joints, or it can have the intakes that fold down over the upper legs like tassets or whatever the thigh guards were called on samurai armor, the sides of the fuselage flipping around the cockpit are kind of sketchy, and connecting them to the nosecone to turn it into a head probably isn't as difficult as it looks on a glance if I kept at it but the other two things put me off a lot. The real killer is the hips, though, because they have to cam inward and back but the top, visible hip cube ends up only having side-to-side splits motion with a second forward and back joint needed, as on the VF-9 or VF-1000, though the cams are much shorter than the 3K's:
VF-9 Cutlass (note hips attached to the solid blue part):
![[Image: eWRCf7F.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/eWRCf7F.gif)
VF-3000 Crusader, with the hips on long sideways-folding levers:
![[Image: 3ESAHVp.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/3ESAHVp.gif)
With the arm storage being an intentional VF-9 reference I don't mind the slightly awkward jointing as such, but I couldn't find any other way to get the intakes out of the way for G and B mode, which was disheartening enough to put me off further effort on the nose. Not having built the intermediate front-to-back hip joint yet this was hidden while I was working on it, as I was incorrectly rotating the hip cubes during the working transformations.
![[Image: oLjEJFm.png]](https://i.imgur.com/oLjEJFm.png)
The cockpit itself just flips down on a double joint over the arm crossbar once it's turned sideways, into the classic vertical chest location with just enough space between it and the tabs the shoulders are attached to for the side pieces to slip into. Closing the last gap in the side of the fuselage between those and the intakes and possibly a bit of the inside of them might require making those tabs thinner, but was another part I hadn't looked at closely yet along with the gap between the shoulders on the bottom of the fusilage.
VF-9 Cutlass (note hips attached to the solid blue part):
VF-3000 Crusader, with the hips on long sideways-folding levers:
With the arm storage being an intentional VF-9 reference I don't mind the slightly awkward jointing as such, but I couldn't find any other way to get the intakes out of the way for G and B mode, which was disheartening enough to put me off further effort on the nose. Not having built the intermediate front-to-back hip joint yet this was hidden while I was working on it, as I was incorrectly rotating the hip cubes during the working transformations.
The cockpit itself just flips down on a double joint over the arm crossbar once it's turned sideways, into the classic vertical chest location with just enough space between it and the tabs the shoulders are attached to for the side pieces to slip into. Closing the last gap in the side of the fuselage between those and the intakes and possibly a bit of the inside of them might require making those tabs thinner, but was another part I hadn't looked at closely yet along with the gap between the shoulders on the bottom of the fusilage.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus