Transformers Animated Crew Console

To really complete the look for our earlier Animated Crew Seat (https://www.patreon.com/posts/101117774) - we're doing up the crew consoles to go with! As seen on the Bridge of Omega Supreme :)

We're starting off with the central part of the crew console first, featuring the flight yoke to control the ship and a bunch of screens for status displays and whatnot. Lets not forget buttons either, those do important things!

The key design element incorporated here is an adjustable flight yoke so that bots of most shapes and sizes will be able to use it. For prime, it will need to be fully extended backwards and tilted up to be held in his hands.

For reference, Prime's seated atop the crew seat with the taller stem too.

Testing the fit for more bots - here's Cybertron Mode Optimus Prime taking over the helm, accurate to the first episode! Even Bulkhead can somewhat take controls gingerly, ... as long as it doesn't get smashed by accident!

Coming over to the new version of Bumblebee however, he had this annoying tabs on the underside of this fists which obscure part of the hand hole. Undeterred though, we have a version of the handle just for him with a quarter of the handles cut out to accommodate.

And for his shorter stature, we've swapped over to the shorter stem of the crew seat for him, with the flight yoke in a lowered position.

=== Assembly ===

The included diagrams show a look at the parts of this kit, and how they go together.

One thing to note - for the FlightYoke_Stem_pin, you will need to pass the FlightYoke_Stem through the Console_Main piece fiirst, before inserting it.

Something like this. Its also recommended to install all the parts of the FlightYoke body and handle prior to this, to make it easier for those assemblies.

Once the FlightYoke_Stem has been installed, the Console_Back piece can be attached on with the help of the provided 5x15mm pegs (shown here in red)

And as seen before, you can angle the flight yoke up or downwards. And to help accommodate different bots' hand width, the handles can also be rotated to either a wider or narrower position.

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Hope all the Animated fans out there would enjoy having this piece for your collections and displays! We will be continuing with the wrap-around sides for this kit shortly also - so stay tuned!

Happy 3d printing! =)

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