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Post by squallgoku on Jan 13, 2007 2:22:48 GMT -5
I went toy shopping today to get some more Tix, and found a series of cheap die cast jets that are perfect for the Aerialbots. A little big maybe but look nice. Left to Right - Air Raid, Fire Flight, Sky Dive, Slingshot (When painted appropriately)  I plan to remove a Skyblast from his launcher carefully and replace it with my own jets, with a hole drilled through the soft metal to allow the firing pin.  And as for robot form, ill cut another jet in half and glue it to the back of say an omnicron, and replace the omnicrons gun arm with a hand holding a gun instead for accuracy of those figs  Sure there will be some quirks, particularly how the extra weight will affect the jets for being harder to knock down and for the robots to be easier to knock down. But these have always been my faves, so I want to make them for attacktix |
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Post by squallgoku on Jan 13, 2007 2:23:34 GMT -5
*Resizing pics*
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Post by squallgoku on Jan 14, 2007 2:52:45 GMT -5
Progress so far - Waiting on getting more Vehicle Skyblasts for coverting purposes, but did some repainting of the vehicles and am happy with how they turned out. Also converted a spare Rodimus into Silverbolt. Will paint him up after the greenstuff cures.     |
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Post by captainjo on Jan 14, 2007 7:11:53 GMT -5
cool like the rodimus conversion!
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Post by squallgoku on Jan 14, 2007 7:36:05 GMT -5
Still needs plenty of touch ups paintwise, he was always one of my faves so ill take the time to give highlights and stuff, this is just the base coat, but is customising complete save for the label.  |
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Post by captainjo on Jan 14, 2007 11:46:57 GMT -5
keep up the good work
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Post by playdohdude on Jan 25, 2007 11:03:28 GMT -5
Nice Silverbolt! Can'y wait to see what happens with the Aerialbots.
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Post by malform on Jan 25, 2007 11:13:57 GMT -5
I personally never liked the aerialbots, I always thought superion was kind of dumb looking.
Silverbolt wasnt an aerialbot. :\
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Post by squallgoku on Jan 25, 2007 18:45:49 GMT -5
malform - Uh, Silverbolt was the concorde and the leader of the Aerialbots, typically known for his fear of heights. I had the G1 toy of him, I wonder if I still have it. Still waiting for some parts before I can make any more progress, the hardest part will be the heads, as I want to do each aerialbot individually, and they have rather different looking heads. Although, I have some weird old transformer (I think is one, but lacks any decepticon or Autobot insig, microbots or something?) and it has the perfect head for Slingshot, complete with goggle eye face.
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Post by malform on Jan 25, 2007 19:43:46 GMT -5
malform - Uh, Silverbolt was the concorde and the leader of the Aerialbots, typically known for his fear of heights. I had the G1 toy of him, I wonder if I still have it. Ah crud, you made me go read a wiki about him.... He absolutely was an aerialbot... Funny that I remember him much better than I do the other aerialbots. :\ |
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Post by Ataru on Feb 2, 2007 18:57:32 GMT -5
Great job! This post really made me think about flying Transformers. Suppose the Transformers could actually launch the jet planes from their backs on a string like SW flying Boba Fett. This could be useful for double-attack Transformers, especially if Hasbro could make special rules for them that allow them to "fly" the planes even after the first shot has been fired.
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Post by squallgoku on Feb 3, 2007 3:03:37 GMT -5
Ive pried a Skyblast jet from the gun, it takes a little effort but comes off smoothly.
Next is to drill the fighter I have and make him fit, ill start with skydive as although I really dig Air Raid ive got a different plan for him.
I want to mount Air Raid Jet mode on the Skyblast Vehicle base but with the Spear from robot mode instead of the gun, this will take more effort, but will characterise that Transformer nicely.
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