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Tfmaster invited me here so I figured I'd lay up some pics of my second custom. The Smoked-screen beside him being the first. Anywho, I learned alot from this bash and may be making alterations when I do another one. Namely the chest panels being too large giving him a stubby look. To correct this, making the side slots of the cockpit shorter would allow for the chest pieces to be smaller in order to conceal them. Another change will be to create movable kneecaps. (As Skyfire had some pointy ol knobs) but couldn't here as they'd interfere with the arms in plane mode. The cargo bay is currently removable but I've divised a way to make it part of the overall design next time.















The cargo bay and cockpit both open. There's a full control panel I cut out of the Rhino rig from MASK fame. One of the seats was also used. I'll be getting a HUD viewscreen sticker and other monitors later.






All non Prime parts were hand made from steel. It's painted using Sikkens Autobase and clearcoat system. Same stuff that's used on todays cars making it resistant to UV rays or even most chemicals. Paint applied by airbrush and cleared using a conventional HVLP gravity feed gun. It weighs just under six pounds

Anywho, here's the transformation.



Stand it up using the usual Prime foot transformation




Remove the cargo bay. Extend legs. There's a cover around back that flips open the same as Prime had to conceal his head. It flips back here all the same to allow the arms to pass. Shift cockpit to one side and slide arm around to back. Twist cockpit the other way and repeat with other arm.



Cockpit down with both arms around back.



Arms swing to side. Chest panels flip in.



Chest panels slide in and lock onto cockpit concealing them little weapon pods. Arms down and fists out.

I forgot to mention that the backpack hangs out during all this making it unstable.



Now the backpack pivots up into place and the wings slide in. And that's all there is doods.

Kickass work! Its really better than the G1 Jetfire alot

hello there wizzkid , i put a post up regards to the sky fire , you did to show off your work

Incredible work there Wikkid. I love the fact that you actually made it with sheet metal.

did you need a lot of tools to work with the metal, what did you use?

alos show us more of that Smoked-screen he looks so abused lol

Welcome man! I'm glad to see you made it over here.

May I make a suggestion?

Now that you know basicly what and how you would go about things differently why not just sell this one one ebay, make a decent profit, then just invest in more materials and a MP Magnus.

This way the parts will already be white in key areas like the arms so the red doesn't look like it's bleeding through. (A problem you brought up over at TFans) And secondly since it's still fairly fresh and wanted on people's minds you might be able to make a decent enouph profit to buy a couple more prime molds. (More MP Bashes!!!)

Anyhoo, there is always room for improvement in this hobby as you already know and I personaly never really consider any of my Kitbashes "Done" just "Good Enouph".

Keep up the great work man. I really can't wait to see what you do next and it's cool to see you made it over here.

TFM

Oh my lord that is amazing!

piranacon wrote:did you need a lot of tools to work with the metal, what did you use?

Tools needed for bash:

Metal brake
Mig welder (With sheilding gas)
Auto tint face sheild. (My batteries went dead, I didn't realize it and got welding flash as well as a major sunburn, teh ouch)
straight block sander
bench grinder, side grinder
dremel (Don't we all)
Measuring tools (micrometer, ruler/measuring tape, square)
cut-off wheel
band saw
drill/drill press
alot of patience