More LEGO joint ideas

Posted in Custom Workstation

Started this today as a challenge to find a compact way to create armored articulated shoulders using LEGO. This is V.1:



And this is the V.2 design I settled on because it lets the shoulder piece lay flat:



The shoulders have a full range of movement though obviously the joint looks clunky and mechanical. Luckily that's part of this character's design since she has mechanical arms.

The shoulder piece is simply Speed Demon's butterfly joint, I cracked the torso to pull it out then popped the peg into the arm, it's a perfect fit with no modding necessary.

I wanted to use a barbell piece instead for this figure, but it would have made her shoulders too wide. Male figures should be easier to work with since they have wider shoulders, giving you more room to work with so you can use a wider variety of parts.