The head and torso
Building Bumblebee started from the hat-holder department. As a kid I had somehow liked Goldbug's look more than Bumblebee's, but as these were matters of taste, there wasn't much to argue here. Again I had some difficulties preparing the curved surfaces without a handy item to roll against.
His shoulders were very straightforward and his head fell onto the shoulders like it was set up that way. At this point the instructions hadn't told me to do anything in too complicated a way - yet.
Next I installed those half-arcs to the upper torso. Getting those in the proper shape was a bit complicated, because they were not to be circular in form, but something a bit less predictable. I managed, as the image below showed. The shoulder modules were to follow, they also settled in neatly after the arcs were done.
Bumblebee's torso was still missing his backpack and the chest, or the VW Beetle's passenger compartment. The side window frames were craftily protruding parts. Again the curved parts didn't end up perfect, which I noticed best afterwards, but I couldn't mangle them anymore after the installation because I'd just broken them.
Getting the chest into the rest of the torso made me a bit nervous, because of the tightness of space available. My concern was proven unnecessary, it settled in just wonderfully and the back part sealed the subassembly like a puzzle piece. Nice progress here, only two-three sessions with all the random interruptions.
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