Legs and hips
Half a hood of a VW Beetle wasn't the simplest thing to build, but on a general level it didn't end up half bad. The curiously shaped curves raised the challenge a bit. Nicely the instructions didn't suggest the fender/wing needed to be bent into the final shape from the start, but it got tweaked in three stages whenever another thing was installed first. These feet were much more impressive to view from the front than the ankle side.
The most special thing about these knee modules was that they were attached to the rest of the legs with only three studs per side. At least the thigh module could've, in my uneducated opinion, fit four studs. Nonetheless they got tight enough with just three.
The full legs consisted of four submodules. On the right side the connection between the shin and the foot ended up wobblier than I wanted, even though I felt I had squeezed the modules together well, before the tightening of the connectors. Maybe I had been a bit too cautious in my fear of breaking things.
The process of the left leg went just like the first one, and according to custom, a bit faster. That didn't have any visible difference to the looks of the results, which was positive especially for the first assembled parts.
When both legs were done, the first one was clearly less sturdy-feeling and a bit more flimsy. I trusted that when they were both attached to the baseplate and the torsto, the problem would cease to be one.
Craftily Bumblebee's legs were first attached to the baseplate and only then to the hip module. Personally, I would've appreciated more fumbling space when connecting the legs to the hip, but maybe this approach prevented some breakage.
There was a funny effect with the legs: Bumblebee seemed like he was hovering, even though the attachment studs were tightly on the baseplate. As we all knew, Transformers could fly, so a bit of a hover wasn't out of character. Again this post contains a few sessionfuls of building and such.
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