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hi Im a bit of a novice to both social networking and customising so im sorry if I unintentualy break any networking eticete rules. I have been doing customs for about two or three years to expand my collection of transformer villains I simply couldnt wait for them to release a toy for airachnid so I went to work straight after the episode predetary went on youtube so if the helicoptur mode appears like an afterthought its cos it kind of is so as a result is far from perfect. I would have loved to incorperated the spiderlike leggs into the helicopter mode perhaps as some of the blades but sadly the legs I had chosen for it at the time wouldnt work in this way. despite this I am really pleased with the transformation I eventualy reached as it gains a kind of duocon like quality alongside its drill mode and the drill bit expands to give it something to help it balance it (two leg) robot mode. I would really appreciate any opinions of feedback on this. I would also love to know how people think the eventual offiial toy is gonna work cos it quite a different design

Would love to see some more pics of the alt mode!

But otherwise, you captured the bot mode perfectly! That is awesome!

these are cool but what are you gonna do with em when toys of them are out? knockout if official and i would bet any amount of money that hasbro will make a arachnid and breakdown.

im not sure what I plan to do when they release the official ones I had the same problem with my really cool straxus custom I did when they released that darkmount toy. when I heard the rumours of airachnid having a new alt mode of a helicopter I thought mine would be unique as changing its alt mode would also change its robot design and mine would be a pre earth protoformish spider version but in the cartoon she keeps her strange spider design so I couldnt resist trying to give mine a transformation to match. I do customs to further my collection of transformer vilains and because I find it fun and rewarding even tho I knew I would be a bit pissed when the proper one comes out I guess im just very impatient

HOT DIGGITY DAMN THOSE ARE AWESOME.

(caps for emphasis, not screaming, though these deserve to be screamed about.)

The head sculpt on Knockout and Airachnid are awesome! If you didn't tell me Airachnid was a custom, I'd have thought it was a fig you bought off a guy who smuggled it out of a factory.

As for Knockout, using ROTF Sideswipe's body was a good choice for him.

Post more Airachnid pictures!

ok I have taken some more photos today I tried to get some more photos of its alt mode as I was asked earlier. As I said earlier the helicopter is far from perfect to improve this Im thinkin of atempting to try and add a ball and soket joint into the wrist area so I could fold the hands under to be less visible in helicopter mode this could be really difficult due to it slender shape and I havnt fully thought it through yet

Screw the helicopter mode, I love that robot mode!

Sorry for the delay.. front paged, well deserved.