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[clay]

The Terrorcons were my only gestalt set that actually survived my childhood, only to be traded in for Magic cards about ten years ago... ah, well...

Yeah, I know they didn't even get full profiles in the old marvel issues and have almost nothing noteworthy about them, BUT I HAD THEM WHEN I WAS SEVEN, so there.

Comparison shots taken with bootleg/knock off Terrorcons. I may be a bit nostalgic, but I am cheap when it comes to vintage stuff.

First up, Blot:


Scion

robot (standing)

robot (action)

w/original

More later...

[evilratbat]

nice work So far and original

[clay]

truck shot
Robot mode
Mean feat!
w/original
w/Blot
Embossed!

Will touch up the paint on the pegs on the left leg before I borrow the other camera for higher-resolution pictures. More to come .

[iconscons]

Wow. I was pretty skeptical about alternator terror cons but these two are really nice. (It's just too bad that blot is so close to skids in appearance).

I absolutely love the feet on hungrr. It's such a great little detail.

[clay]

Sinnertwin:

w/original
at attention
w/sword and shield
w/sword and shield (from side)
storarge for the other gun
vehicle right
vehicle left
Terrorcons 60%

[TM divebomb]

I bloody love these, they look shit hot!

[Nemesis Sturmvogel]

Nice work

[Skullgrin140]

Freakin Sweet work there! Just wondering? Are you gonna make these combine? Because that would be so cool

[clay]

Rippersnapper

Jeep w/cropped top
Robot
Robot w/original (thanks Osku!)

The visor is yellow on the toy, but red in the cartoon. I opted for red, obviously. RS has some other yellow highlights, but I dropped those since I didn't think they'd look too good.

One more left!

[Pun-3X]

These are all great jobs. You really bring out the characters.

[clay]

#5, Cutthroat

I hate the green paint I used. It coats very unevenly, and was a pain to work with. The sand color paint is great, though.

Corvette
robot w/original
I made the hood detachable so it could stow on the back
and also be used as a shield!
It can still be seperated into two pieces and put on the legs, though

Aside from the hood, I also cut the feaux chest into the shape of a beak and made the center flip farther out and painted eyes on it to make it resemble the original's chest more closely.

Group shot

[Ramrider]

Brilliant - now combine 'em!

JK.

Gorgeous - I actually LOVE that green! I'm an enormous fan of metallic green paintjobs... although I suspect that you meant that you hated working with it. Believe me, though, it was worth it. And remoulding the chest into a beak is just genius. I think out of all these figs, this is the one who stands out as his character most. It's just a pity the Corvette mould didn't come with wings...

[clay]

It's just a pity the Corvette mould didn't come with wings...

It does, in its way...

The green paint - yeah, I meant I don't like the texture of the paint itself, not the color. The color(s) is/are exactly what I wanted, but the paint wasn't easy to work with. It coated very unevenly - even with five and six coats. I gave up trying to make the green uniform after that and just went on with the other colors.

Of course, there are official toys that don't match their colors well either (Swerve and Overdrive spring to mind), so I suppose I shouldn't dwell on it too much

Anyway, I updated my thread at the Archive with all the high-resolution pictures this morning. If you're curious as to what they really look like... link's in my sig.

[Retread]

That is a good looking group of Alts. The heads on the stang and vette are great homages to the original toys as well.

But who's the other Ram in your group shot, is that your motormaster? If so, that's a nice update to his colour scheme.

[clay]

Thanks

But who's the other Ram in your group shot, is that your motormaster? If so, that's a nice update to his colour scheme.

That's actually Binaltech Black Convoy. I wrote a pretty thorough review of it for the Archive. It's a great piece, but way too expensive for me to buy anything like that more than once.

[Broadblasts short shorts]

how did you deattach the hood?? you've given me an idea!!

[clay]

how did you deattach the hood?? you've given me an idea!!

It's pretty simple, really. You just need to take the lower legs apart so you can hammer out the pins that the hood is mounted out. The hands can hold the hood/shield by the little flanges the hood mounts on. That's about it.

It has the benefit of being reversible, too. It just won't work with Binaltechs since the metal is too heavy for the robot to support off-balance.

[Fighbird]

Beautiful stuff.

I especially like Sinnertwin and Hun-Grrr.

What paints did you use? I've been looking for that greenish blue on Sinnertwin for a project of my own now for quite some time.

[clay]

Finally got around to making galleries for this bunch. Enjoy!

Blot
Cutthroat
Hungrr
Rippersnapper
Sinnertwin

[Nemesis Sturmvogel]

Cool!

I like how they look