Yeah, my momma didn't raise no fool. I ain't buying no $300 Botcon set for the rest of the Seekers when I can make my own. Dirge and Thundercracker don't present any problems - straight repaints of Starscream and Ramjet will work fine. The tricky one is Thrust.
I've hacked the wings off an Armada Thrust and used his engines to make the VTOLs as a preliminary attempt. I sprayed on a coat of red and used sticky-tack to attach the wings for the moment to get an idea, and it looks like this:
Jet
Jet 2
Robot
The question I present to you all: does it look alright without square wings? Thrust is stupid and is the only toy ever to use square wings, and I can't find a pair of G1 Thrust wings on ebay at the moment. I think it'll look fine, but you never know... I thought MP Starscream looked nifty in green, but people are ornery about some things.
The other problem will be replacing the mounts for the weapons on the undersides of the wings, but I'll worry about that after I decide which wings to work with. I may use bigger VTOLs if I can a better substitute.