TF UK Comic Cover Recreations

[kgorman79]

Recently I've been trying to improve my Photoshop (and by Photoshop i mean GIMP!) and camera skills, and I've started a little project redoing the Marvel Comic covers with modern figures.

I've been posting them in various TF places on the net and i figured that they'd be appreciated here too.

I'll be posting them regularly here, but here's a few to get the thread moving.

[The Doctor]

These are absolutely splendid. I even did a double take on #78, thinking for a second that it was the original cover!

-Ralph

[kgorman79]

Jul 29, 2016 15:26:51 GMT The Doctor said:

These are absolutely splendid. I even did a double take on #78, thinking for a second that it was the original cover!

-Ralph

Cheers! Glad you're enjoying them Many more to come, i've done 38 so i reckon with the figures i have i can do about another 260!
It's pretty good fun making these. The best thing is getting those figures down off the shelf and using them for something other than as a shelf ornament. It's brought way more appreciation for some figures that i bought and immediately put on display.

[Andy Turnbull]

Lovely stuff!

Andy

[primenova]

Great cover redo's (just noticed that the MP Ratchet doesn't have really good arm joints like that new Megatron toy we've just seen images of the TR one). Hope to see the others.

[Pinwig]

Very good excuse for buying Pandinus. Top work!

[Rich]

Lovely work.

[kgorman79]

Thanks for all the complements, glad you're enjoying them

Here's a few more!

[The Doctor]

Clever way to do Robot Buster!

-Ralph

[kgorman79]

Aug 1, 2016 7:08:44 GMT The Doctor said:

Clever way to do Robot Buster!

-Ralph

Cheers! It was one of my favourite stories/covers as a kid and i'd been wracking my brains about how to do it. But then Diabattles arrived in all his exosuited glory as the perfect stand in

[kgorman79]

A couple more i've done recently

[The Doctor]

Hooray!

You realise of course that if you try to recreate all 332 issues plus specials and annuals that you will go insane?

-Ralph

[kgorman79]

Aug 3, 2016 12:25:21 GMT The Doctor said:

Hooray!

You realise of course that if you try to recreate all 332 issues plus specials and annuals that you will go insane?

-Ralph

Yep! And I've made peace with that, if anythings going to send me insane it might as well be TF's 

Already have 41 of them done so only another 291 to go.... and that's ignoring specials,annuals,collected comics, crossovers,posters. Might as well just do the lot!

And then there's the US stuff....

[primenova]

Can't wait to see #300

[blueshift]

Aug 3, 2016 18:14:05 GMT primenova said:

Can't wait to see #300

I wonder which would be the hardest to do?

[kgorman79]

The hardest?

I'd say 205:



There's just so many bots on the cover and it'll take a lot of editing to get just right.
It's also one of my favourite covers, so i want to take my time with it.

[Grand Moff Muffin]

These are great.

Aug 3, 2016 18:33:52 GMT blueshift said:

I wonder which would be the hardest to do?

The ones with humans, aliens and spaceships on them, I'd guess, though you could find photos on the Internet to approximate some of the humans, I suppose.

Martin

[primenova]

I'd expect #205 to be easy because you just need a box & lay the toys down while #300 is a distance group shot then needing wires to hold all the flyers.

[kgorman79]

It's actually not that bad doing the flying figures.
The way i'm doing the covers is taking a photo of each bot separately and using layers in GIMP to assemble the final image.
I've had to do it that way as with figures being varying heights, i have to scale them to match up the heights.

Case in point would be this one:



Blaster is significantly smaller than Staxus (being a Deluxe) so scaling is the only way that works.

or in this one, i had to photo Ravage separately and then edit out the support

[primenova]

I like the movement of Ravage on that cover, nice effect

[Jaymz]

These are great Kev! Looking forward to #100, 209 and 250!

And I hope you model yourself for #233 and get a group of mates together to do the Visionaries on #213.

[kgorman79]

Aug 5, 2016 12:41:14 GMT Jaymz said:

These are great Kev! Looking forward to #100, 209 and 250!

And I hope you model yourself for #233 and get a group of mates together to do the Visionaries on #213.

Thanks James, much appreciated

Great idea for the human photos, i may have to give that a go!

[kgorman79]

Aug 4, 2016 11:31:06 GMT primenova said:

I like the movement of Ravage on that cover, nice effect

Cheers, i'm quite happy how that turned out. After trying a few things, I ended up duplicating the Ravage layer and doing a few motion blurrs on it then shifting it slightly to the left. Looks pretty nice.

Here's another i finished off this afternoon. Pretty happy with it.

[Andy Turnbull]

Splendid stuff!

Andy

[kgorman79]

Aug 5, 2016 23:40:45 GMT Andy Turnbull said:

Splendid stuff!

Andy

Cheers Andy!

And here's another few covers








The Bumblebee one was one of the first ones that i did when i started so it's on the "might redo it as some stage" list. 

[The Doctor]

Hooray! #115 is especially clever.

-Ralph

[Fortmax2020]

Keep these coming! Really enjoying them.

[legios]

These are very impressive pieces of work indeed. The #43 cover one looks fantastic. You've done it justice, as you have all of them.

Karl

[kgorman79]

Aug 9, 2016 14:43:06 GMT The Doctor said:

Hooray! #115 is especially clever.

-Ralph

Aug 10, 2016 7:46:19 GMT Fortmax2020 said:

Keep these coming! Really enjoying them.

Aug 10, 2016 7:56:05 GMT legios said:

These are very impressive pieces of work indeed. The #43 cover one looks fantastic. You've done it justice, as you have all of them.

Karl

Thanks all!

And for today, a couple of Galvatrons!

[kgorman79]

Another couple of covers for your viewing pleasure. I'd been looking forward to the TR wave 2 deluxes arriving so i could dive into the Headmaster Covers as they're some of my favourites.