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Post by shadowynne on Jul 17, 2012 14:39:48 GMT
yeah, crap i managed to total a depth charge and sonar not that long ago, just doing some simple part swapping....
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Post by Bogatan on Jul 17, 2012 15:24:27 GMT
All the black on SG Galvatron was annoying me so I decided to swap it for evacs blues. I forgot that the mould was originally from Cybertron and the designers at the time had a fetish for glue and pins making it near impossible to dismantle with out destroying. I utterly destroyed Evac, but thankfully Galvatron had much less glue on it and I was able to safely swap out a few of the parts.
My long dormant Impactor has so far sacrificed about a dozen other figures. Then theres the pile of PMOPs.
All of these are from last year at least, this year I dont think I've done any real damage to anything.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 17, 2012 18:47:42 GMT
What's PMOPs? (almost too afraid to ask)
Way way way back. I destroyed a Dragon Beast Wars Megatron 'cos I didn't like all the, what I now know to be called, kibble all over him. This was many years before I found The Hub. I ruined the figure. Learned a powerful lesson, I did.
Good idea for a thread, by the way!
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Post by glaug on Jul 18, 2012 0:04:00 GMT
You can add a second RTS JAzz to that list, btw... The part which got warped on the first one? Broke while trying to remove it from a spare!
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Post by dyrl on Jul 28, 2012 9:50:03 GMT
Ok - I thought this thread was going to be dedicated to moaning about how much money you guys had to give away to CUTA and what you could have bought for it....
oops...
Pete
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Post by shadowynne on Aug 17, 2012 22:08:11 GMT
uh... just utterly destroyed an alternity megatron... bollocks...
---sighs---
more spares for the spares box...
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Post by glaug on Aug 17, 2012 23:51:47 GMT
Ouuuch... which one, and how? I keep wanting to customise mine, but I honestly just dislike them and would rather sell them on.
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Post by shadowynne on Aug 19, 2012 16:34:45 GMT
silver one. parts swapping... godammit... it has made a few decisions easier though. you dont like them? really? i think they are pretty nice. you wouldnt happen to have a silver one for sale would ya?
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Post by glaug on Aug 19, 2012 23:36:43 GMT
Only black, I'm afraid! And I just don't like how they stand up to either Classics or Binaltech toys... They combine bits of both, but don't have enough of what I loved of either.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 24, 2013 15:21:33 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 24, 2013 16:26:47 GMT
Very nice! That really looks the part.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 26, 2013 15:57:58 GMT
That is very nice indeed.
Andy
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Post by kayevcee on Mar 21, 2013 13:45:54 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2013 15:29:11 GMT
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Post by legios on Sept 25, 2013 18:54:03 GMT
That is a rather nice piece of work indeed. That colour works well on it and it looks like a terrific job on the actual painting.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 17, 2014 15:03:54 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 17, 2014 18:05:30 GMT
Splendid!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Feb 17, 2014 19:52:33 GMT
It is rather marvelous isn't it?
Karl
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 14:12:06 GMT
I've found a nice little couple of kit bash projects to keep me occupied while I trawl the parts for more Pretenders. I'm going to use the Ironman Crossover race car for a FoC Sideswipe and the Thor A-10 Crossover for Powerglide. www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/search.aspx?search=Transformers%20CrossoversI'm also hoping to pick up the War Machine mould of the Iron Man figure and swap out any of the yellow parts for the corresponding parts on War Machine. The head should be a straight swap for the FoC Sideswipe with a little modding if required. Not sure where to start with Powerglide but can't see myself having any real dramas. I'd rather re-purpose a head than start composing one of my own. Thoughts? |
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Post by Shockprowl on May 6, 2014 17:19:06 GMT
Thoughts?
YOU'RE A CUSTOMISING MACHINE!!!!
Great ideas chumb.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 18:03:48 GMT
Cheers Shock. I know I can always count on your support.  I'm thinking Ironhide for the Humvee Capt America too... Does anyone have any of these in-hand? I've always been happy with the Star Wars Crossovers and I really liked the Hulk mold but I've heard they can be a bit hit'n'miss. |
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Post by Bogatan on May 6, 2014 19:35:05 GMT
Would Universe Powerglides head work? Its big but Powerglide has a big head.
Captain America and hulk are the best of the bunch for my money, Wolverine is also good. After that I'm unimpressed with the ones I've handled.
I've had plans to do Ironfist from Cap (or Wolverine) for age both modes are pretty much perfect and the shield can be turned into the base of his Lightformer gun.
edit: just discovered that Hulks upper arms swing out. I always though he looked very narrow as I had it, but the swung out arms look a bit silly to me now.
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Post by legios on May 6, 2014 19:46:29 GMT
I was going to suggest the Powerglide head, but I see I have been beaten to it. Still, best of luck with these projects, I look forward to seeing how things pan out.
Karl
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 19:58:17 GMT
Ha! I was half way through customising him into Guzzle when I came across that shoulder joint. I was taking him apart for spraying and I just thought, "Hmm... that looks like a joint. I wonder if I... As if!" It didn't do anything for the figure so I never bothered to paint under it. I'll concede, it does give him better Hulk proportions but it just looks too silly as anything else.
I looked at Universe Powerglide and like you said, my worry was the size of the head being too large. I looked at the Cyberverse figure too but like many a Bayformer, where they get the body right, they screw up the head. at the moment, the G1 minibot head is in the lead. the fact it was quite big for a minibot means it might be a doable scale... Otherwise it's off trawling faceplated figures in my collection.
Cheers for the heads up on Wolverine. I've come across him today and think he might be the solution to the Rucks I hate some much. His colours are almost bang-on and I've already got the head from Oil Pan.
Ironfist as a hummer... That sounds like a very good idea (although I still don't have a single Ironhide to my name!).
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 24, 2014 19:15:41 GMT
Fab Arcee from Hot Rod
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 6, 2014 21:33:58 GMT
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Post by Toph on Sept 6, 2014 23:57:52 GMT
Jeebus. I didn't realize how dayglo the original was until then.
I still don't know why they didn't color him properly.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 7, 2014 11:09:20 GMT
And makes you shake your head that they didn't go ahead with that colour scheme. Andy |
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Post by blueshift on Sept 7, 2014 12:11:42 GMT
It is absolutely barking. All I can assume is that they expect you to buy the mad colour scheme first for the mold and then the correct one later, but then again, I said that for Impactor....
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 7, 2014 14:43:56 GMT
I already intended to repaint it, now I'm sure I will give it a go.
I do wonder if there is maybe the intention to do a new mould Jhixaus down the line as Armada Starscream while brilliant is tiny and thats why they went with the RID homage colours this time.
It's already been done with FOC to Generations Roadbuster and Whirl.
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