RoboForce Blazer Action Figure

This is a from-scratch rebuild of the RoboForce figure Blazer. It's about ⅔ the original scale. There's no pneumatic arm action, but I did include the button in the back that uses a ballpoint pen spring and the arms can bend inward using black or grey pipe cleaners. 

Most parts are single-color prints that can be assembled. The main body with black and white eyes can be printed with a multi-color printer or just printed together and painted by hand later. Glue is needed for the shoulders, shoulder pegs, hands, weapons, and the spring for the back button. Everything else friction-fits together. 

Parts are oriented for printing and comments on each part indicate if a brim or support is needed. 

Back Button/Trigger:

Cut a ballpoint pen spring down to 10mm in length. Squeeze one end slightly so that it friction presses into the black button piece. Then use a bit of super glue in the top of the body to hold the other end of the spring. Be careful not to glue the button itself to the body!

Mouth:

The Mouth is separated in order to set a filament color change for the top few layers. This allows you to get the black base with white grill from the original toy. The layer number to change colors depends on the layer height so use your own judgement on best placement. There's a small hole on the back to use a piece of 1.75mm filament to align it properly with the slot in the main body.

Arms:

Each arm will be need four of the Arm Segment pieces, one Elbow, two Hands (Side 01 and Side 02), and two Shoulders (Front and Back). The two parts of the shoulder and hands can use small pieces of filament in the small holes to align them when gluing together later. It's easiest to add the pipe cleaner around the internal slots before gluing them together.

The Arm Segments have a slight angle, allowing the arms to bend inward. Thread a black or grey pipe cleaner through two Arm Segments, one Elbow, and two more Arm Segments. Loop the top (not separated side) around the Hand interior peg. Loop the separated ends of the pipe cleaner around the peg of the Shoulder end to hold it together, with a little slack to allow the arms to bend later. Then glue the shoulder pieces and hand pieces together. If you find you have too much slack, twist the hand or shoulder 1 or 2 times to tighten it up.

Head-Mounted Water Sprayer:

The top Water Squirter weapon is hollow and can be printed in TPU or other flexible filament to make it feel like the original toy. It does require supports for the front nozzle. Multi-material printers with TPU for the body and PLA for the supports work really well. If you don't want/need the flexible material then just print it in the same grey PLA as the bottom suction piece.

Chest Logo:

The Chest Logo.png can be printed onto either paper or a silver inkjet sticker sheet. You'll need to resize the Chest Logo to 16.9mm high by 22.6mm wide. I used the free Silhouette Studio software to resize and print it with exact measurements. Once printed, cut it out and glue it onto the body. Even if you use sticker paper, I've found adding gluestick to the edges helps it stick better over time. I also sprayed two layers of clear matte or gloss spray paint over the sticker to prevent smudging before applying it.

RoboForce Figures (so far):

• SOTA

• Hun-Dred

• Coptor

• Enemy

• Wrecker

• Vulgar

• Maxx 25

• Cruel

• Sentinel

• Blazer

Bases:

• Tank Base

• Rocket Base

• Magnet Base

• Spider Base