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So a few months ago I got a KO Terrorsaur at Biglots. I wondered what I could do with it (since the colors were awful), and after doing some doodles in class and in Photoshop, I finally figured it would become the base for my Namesake's Beast Wars design (since she was also a pterodactyl in the HMW game for a short while).

Robot Mode:

^ one of her helmet antennae looks crooked... that's because I broke it off while reassembling her. >>; Hobby glue's holding it in place, but I couldn't get it to fit back the way it was before it fell off.

^ Now this angle, I like, since she actually looks femenine from the side...


Altmode:

I took those stupid teeth off and painted it to look more like a solid beak, and also tried to paint on some decent eyes since the KO had like, nothing...

An albino pterodactyl with yellow spots! Oh noes!

Like I said in the HMW Character pics thread, the KO's mold is pretty bad. I had to x-acto ungodly amounts of flash from limbs, posts, even the beast head. The hinged post that the pterodactyl's head sits on was molded all wrong, and when I transform her into robot mode it won't fit into that groove properly. As a result Windy can't stand without leaning on something. Gonna have to hit it with the dremel sometime soon to fix her balance problems. XD

Also, I learned that the entire head and crest assembly I puttied in wouldn't allow her head to clear when I was changing her back into robot mode after I'd taken the beast mode pics, so I had to break the whole thing off. :/ I just went back with paint to paint on her trademark gold crest and "v" antennae, since there's little to no wiggle room when it comes to the Transformation. I could glue it back on and try to sand it down a bit more, but I'm not sure that would work... Oh well.

Other than that I think I'm getting a little better at this. My biggest kitbash/repaint to date (since I started out with the LOC's). Comments/ crits/ whatever else is welcome.

Looks good, Windy, no matter what you think .

Nifty

Skullgrin140 wrote:Nifty

Fanks.

Gotta go back to Biglots sometime soon to see if I can get anymore KO's... I think a few of my non-BW characters could use BW designs...

Windracer wrote:

Skullgrin140 wrote:Nifty

Fanks.

Gotta go back to Biglots sometime soon to see if I can get anymore KO's... I think a few of my non-BW characters could use BW designs...

I only have one thing to suggest. Make BW Bludgeon!

Skullgrin140 wrote:I only have one thing to suggest. Make BW Bludgeon!

I'm quite unfamiliar with that character, to be honest. My TF Knowledge spans from Armada and onward, with just a SMIDGEN of BW and even less G1. ^o^;

My goal was to do some of my own original characters in BW-style molds. I have a general idea for two of them, but the others are all big question marks.

Windracer wrote:

Skullgrin140 wrote:I only have one thing to suggest. Make BW Bludgeon!

I'm quite unfamiliar with that character, to be honest. My TF Knowledge spans from Armada and onward, with just a SMIDGEN of BW and even less G1. ^o^;

My goal was to do some of my own original characters in BW-style molds. I have a general idea for two of them, but the others are all big question marks.

Feralbrawn deserves a kitbash

Windracer wrote:

Skullgrin140 wrote:I only have one thing to suggest. Make BW Bludgeon!

I'm quite unfamiliar with that character, to be honest. My TF Knowledge spans from Armada and onward, with just a SMIDGEN of BW and even less G1. ^o^;

My goal was to do some of my own original characters in BW-style molds. I have a general idea for two of them, but the others are all big question marks.

Bludgeon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bludgeon_% ... formers%29

That's pretty damn cool. I'm all in favour of female bashes, god knows Transformers needs more femmebots. What's the quality of the KO like?

Yes! Power to the fembots!

Azura wrote:What's the quality of the KO like?

To be brutally honest... it's awful. XD Joints don't sit right, easily broken, mold was completely off (and thus I had to do a lot of dremel-ing to make parts fit together and transform properly...), even the face was asymmetrical, which is why I've resisted giving a close up of the face... The molding of the optics is literally crooked. Ah well. Given how cheap they are it's not too surprising, though...

Anyhow; just a few more stoopid pix, since I fixed the post the pterodactyl head sat on, resolved her balance issues (for the most part), and her crest now clears the chestplate when transforming. It looks small and a lot flatter, but... hey, since when did TFs ever represent their cartoon/comic alter egos accurately? excluding Masterpiece TF's, dangit. XD


Bahaha, I had to put A. Wheeljack (ok, technically Rampage...) into one of these. Even though they're from totally different continuities at this point, it's the novelty that counts.

I do have the intention to make an Armada/Gon/Tron version of her someday, too, though... Preferably with the use of a Revoltech as the base fig (either one of the Evas or that chick from Black Lagoon)... but I digress.


The three stooges!

Just a comparison between all three of my kitbash/repaints, I guess. Carry on. XD

hahaha yeah...the mold does suck XD

but for now, i guess, it suits me for a replacement Terrorsaur XD

Looks pretty good. I've seen those KOs, and they are kinda cheap, but good bashing fodder.

That's looks great.
What kind of paint did you use? A lot of kitbashes I've seen the paint just doesn't seem to sit well on the figure, but that paintjob seems to lay on the plastic just as well as a any regular figure.

Thats bloody great, which i could do repaints and stuff, but I'm ham fisted, I'm the guy that when making a model, glues the model to various body parts