While the number of choices for a Masterpiece size/style Devastator seems to grow with each passing week, my previous experience with 3P combiners was less than stellar. Bot’s like TFC’s Hercules and Uranos didn’t have the look or quality of a masterpiece team, and Fansprojects Intimidator was a fiddly nightmare. I had come to the…
Category: Transformers
Adventures of Stan: Car Salesperson #005
Once again, Stan is away, but G.I.Joe is there to save the day… err, substitute in a marginally adequate fashion.
Revoltech Transformers – Wheeljack
Continuing the revoltech G1 love, Wheeljack proved to be exceptionally difficult to make in revo form, as his proportions in the cartoon shift substantially from what a real car would. His chest and feet become car parts that are completely different scale from his legs/shins. I ended up casting parts from two different sizes of…
Knocked-Up Sideswipe 1:18th Comparison
Last week, I posted a gallery of oversized Masterpiece Transformers, but they were all in bot-mode. Given that KU Sideswipe is 1:18th scale, perfect for all of your 4″ action figures, I wanted to post some pics of him in Countach form with some other 1:18 diecast cars. Below are pics with a cheap Bburago…
Adventures of Stan: Car Salesperson #004
While Stan is away, contemplating his failures as a salesperson and other questionable life decisions, the cars on the lot are not silent…
G.I. Joe – Mega Bloks: MP Joes
If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m mildly smitten with Mega Bloks figures customized as GIJoe characters. Their size, range of motion, details, gear, and overall fun-factor absolutely dwarfs that of LEGO and Kre-O minifigures. I’ve created my own Joes and Cobras you can find here and here. I’ve also had a go at some…
Revoltech Transformers – Springer
Deviating from my previous work on Season 1 characters in revoltech form, I decided that the official Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus figures needed some reinforcements. This was my very first attempt to sculpt or shape anything harder than mild curvature, and at such a small scale, it was challenging. Making that helmet from nothing…
Knocked-Up Transformers
In the world of Masterpiece Transformers, there are plenty of third party companies that would like to get a piece of Hasbro/Takara’s pie. Many third party companies make their own designs that look like established Transformers characters, but they are original sculpts, original transformation schemes, and ultimately provide fans with more characters and more choices…
Revoltech Transformers – Shockwave
Continuing our series of custom Revoltech Transformers characters, here we go with Shockwave, the quiet Decepticon strategist. You don’t know who’s side he’s on…. besides his own. Despite the order that I’ve presented them in, this figure was my very first custom toy of any kind (if you don’t count disassembling and rearranging GIJoe figures…
Incredible Change-Bots
In 2007, author/artist Jeffrey Brown created a pseduo-parody of the Transformers called The Incredible Change-Bots. His brand of humor and playful poking fun at all the tropes that filled the cartoons and comics of our youth make for a fascinating and entertaining read. Every G1 Transformers fan owes it to themselves to read this funny, charming…
Transformers Backgrounds
Displaying all of your hard earned plastic acquisitions is a rewarding part of being a toy collector. And few toys make a better display than Masterpiece Transformers (and their third-party brethren). Near-perfect representations of the characters we watched on TV and played with in the living room floor many moons ago, MP TFs are complex,…
Revoltech Transformers – Mirage
As I explained in an earlier post, I wanted to make additional characters in a line of highly articulated, non-Transforming figures that died well before it’s time. Autobot Mirage, everyone’s favorite blue F1 car, was my second figure. Collecting is half the Battle!