[MOD] Submersible Bipedal Armored Fighting Shark

[koalayummies]

Aka: garmadon, Garmadon, GARMADON! 70656

Modification goals:

• Make it a little cleaner
• Make it a little meaner

Reworked the jaw, much of the hull, very minor changes to the feet, eliminated the various different color bricks and color of bricks showing through the various gaps. 

Tightened up the gill spacing and closed various gaps. Added pelvic fins and a minuscule second dorsal fin. 

Tried a number of different builds for the hull including using the similar but lower profile/thinner sand blue piece from the Piranha Attack set but wound up liking it more using the fatter looking back/original large pieces.

Armaments: cheek-mounted missiles (especially effective against those using "butt torpedoes"), quad machine guns make it like shooting fish in a... well you know, and rocket-propelled rusty harpoons. 

And of course keeping the very fun leg and mouth functions completely in-tact.

[Murdoch17]

Looks nice! I was thinking about doing a version of the shark in black for a certain Sinister fellow's submarine (without the legs, of course) ... you may have just got me even more interested in that with your fantastic MOD!

[Orange Leader]

A well done modification of an already great set! I do miss the yellow hulls of the propellors, but that's just a matter of taste.

[koalayummies]

6 hours ago, Orange Leader said:

A well done modification of an already great set! I do miss the yellow hulls of the propellors, but that's just a matter of taste.

Yeah I understand. I just figured that since Garmadon is essentially a terrorist, has little regard his employees safety (frequently shooting them great distances out of a volcano) and doesn't appear to care about efficiency (a failed invasion every day for quite some time) that ducted propellers would be lost on a guy like that. 

[Lucarex]

Aaahh what a fantastic mod of an already great (if pricey) set, and has pushed me over the edge...

[koalayummies]

Thanks Lucarex! Here are some more details of the mod as requested. Hope they help and let me know if you want any more details or info.

Without the legs or 'weapons':

Fins removed showing the plate build and connections:

Tail fin 'snot'-plate setup:

Dorsal fin mounting is very similar to the original set. Tighter gill spacing with different technic pieces. The technic leg-mounting and jaw-mechanics is the same stud-spacing as the original:

The lower jaw piece was moved to the rear hull and the rest of the jaw slightly rebuilt with some snot plates however remains about the same thickness:

Underside:

Top-down:

[Murdoch17]

Do you have an ldd file for your MODs @koalayummies? I was planning on modding it to black instead of sand blue...

[koalayummies]

18 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

Do you have an ldd file for your MODs @koalayummies? I was planning on modding it to black instead of sand blue...

I don't currently but I have a list of things I've been meaning to turn into LDD files. If I get around to it I will certainly PM you with the file. In the meantime though feel free to copy as much as you can from the photos. In fact I see now that the original set hasn't even been entered into the official sets in LDD thread so I may do that and then mod the file and send it off to you.