Good evening fellow Seibertronians! For a while now I have hinted at me doing a customization of that beat up AoE High Octane deluxe Bumblebee for a while now. I at first said I'd do a zombie customization, and then said a Cliffjumper customization. However, I have finally decided what to customize him into. A sort of original character I suppose. I present to you, the work in progress for my new custom: Decepticon Beetle. I hope you enjoy, and look forward to updates on him!
I did some white paint stripes on him and then used a brush to splotch on a bit of black paint to make the stripes look a bit worn. I am pretty happy with the end result.
For the windows, I painted them with the same black paint as the rest of him, but then painted over it with a black Sharpie to give it a tinted window shine look. Not perfect, but works a bit.
The back taillights and license plate are unpainted. Still deciding what to do with that.
The undercarriage, unlike how Bee originally was, with all the black, disguises the robot parts pretty well I think!
TRANSFORM.
Now he looks like a Darth. :B
Head with hood panels flipped up.
...and head with hood panels flipped down to reveal his patched eye. I actually carved out the patched eye so that I'd have some room to put some hot glue in there to add the patch. With the other eye, I removed the blue paint he previously had, painted the eye white, and then marked over it with some pink Sharpie. HE HAS PINKEYE!
There are still a couple yellow spots I need to touch up.
I am looking forward to touching some things up, and then eventually making him a custom weapon! I need to sometime find that missile that he came with so that I can cut it and glue a spearhead to it or something to look like a giant harpoon!
I am pretty happy with this so far as my first full-on custom!
I'll post updates soon, and maybe even shoot a video of it when it's done!
That is one I have my eye on as well! I didn't have that toy before, but the Cybertron line in general is a nostalgia-fest for me. 
