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Energon Soundwave (with Buzzsaw)

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Energon Soundwave (with Buzzsaw)

Postby TM Rawhide » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:44 am

Wasn?t sure where to post this, but Dev suggested here, so here it is...

Realizing that basics from various lines could be used to augment my Robotmasters line, I initially took an Signal Flare and a Offshoot (from the Energon line) and mixed parts to get a more uniform look: I put the blue arms from Offshoot with the light-blue colored Signal Flare and put Signal Flare?s arms on the almost similar colored Offshoot. This already looked nicer and better balanced.

I then realized that with a little paint the blue one would make a nice Soundwave. I did play with the thought of making the colors more like the MW or the Universe version, but that would?ve meant more paint than I was willing to do: after all, it was only going to be a minor alteration.

During painting more and more ideas crept into this. I had just painted the first two layers of blue on the chest, when I decided to flatten his chest and fill up the spark/energon star hole in his chest to make it more like G1 Soundwave. Did this and then realized that if this was going to be Soundwave, then he needed to come with at least one partner. And since the G1 Soundwave toy came with Buzzsaw, I went with that. Of course, a transforming condor at this size is really way beyond my abilities. My initial idea was to make Buzzsaw like a missile, but that would not have a proper representation of this figure IMO. In the end, Buzzsaw became some kind of hybrid between a missile, the G1 condor, and something like a remote controlled drone jet.

And then of course I had to figure out a way to attach this Buzzsaw. This I did by attaching some sort of shield on Soundwave?s lower arm so he can carry Buzzsaw around a bit like a falconer. (This had the added bonus of covering up the arm in altmode)


Soundwave with Buzzsaw.

Left: Buzzsaw carried on the left arm.
Right: Buzzsaw on the shoulder as he often was in the G1 cartoon
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Soundwave without Buzzsaw (the platform that can hold Buzzsaw now acts as a small shield with a double barreled gun)
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Buzzsaw
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Soundwave altmode
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Soundwave alt with buzzsaw (the so-called Hypermode)
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When reassembling Soundwave, I unfortunately made a little mistake: during coating I had forgotten to put colorstop in the holes for the pins just above the feet, which resulted in some coat ending up there. When I tried to get the pins back the holes were too small and in the end a little plastic melt occurred. I quickly removed the pins and drilled out the holes for a better fit, but I?m afraid there?s a little damage.


(PS: Although this started out to become RM Soundwave, he really is too small for that. I?ll use RM Giga Bomb for that and this one will be more like a spychanger Soundwave.)
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Postby grimlockprime108 » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:50 am

buzzsaw is ....so .......cute!seriously that is nice little piece you made there.
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Postby Hobbyist Prime » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:28 pm

I love the little launcher/clip for buzzsaw! Great work!
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Postby Ramrider » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:59 am

Great idea making the clip for Buzzsaw, and brilliant job on the bird himself!
Also muchos kudos for deciding to make Buzzsaw rather than the over-hyped chicken... :wink:
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Postby Darth Zax » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:37 am

really cool custom! turned out to be more than i expected :D
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Postby TM Rawhide » Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:04 pm

Thanks for the compliments.

That clip idea really worked out well. I was desperately trying to figure out a way to have Buzzsaw attach, making up solution after unrealisable solution, that I'm very happy I came up with this and it works. Buzzsaw is secured pretty solid, but still loose enough so there's no risk of paint damage when I remove him.

Ramrider wrote:Also muchos kudos for deciding to make Buzzsaw rather than the over-hyped chicken... :wink:


I take it you don't like Laserbeak :lol:

Buzzsaw was the obvious choice for me: I never even considered going with Laserbeak. The original toy came with Buzzsaw and I've never owned Laserbeak (or any of the other cassettes). Besides, Buzzsaw was part gold which, when he's on Soundwave's left arm, nicely mirrors the gold on the right arm.


Darth Zax wrote:really cool custom! turned out to be more than i expected :D


So, no more Kennywave comments? :wink:
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Postby Darth Zax » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:51 pm

Rawhide wrote:So, no more Kennywave comments? :wink:


no, he's still kennywave, it was never an insult, just a reference to the then-movie-rumor :wink:
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Postby Skullgrin140 » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:03 pm

Not bad, Signal Flare is actually quite good as Soundwave :D
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Postby Ramrider » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:41 am

Rawhide wrote:
Ramrider wrote:Also muchos kudos for deciding to make Buzzsaw rather than the over-hyped chicken... :wink:


I take it you don't like Laserbeak :lol:


I don't hate Laserbeak. It just bugs me that to so many (namely the largely toon-only fans), Laserbeak's pretty much Soundwave's only bird-bot, and there he's pretty well Megatron's favourite. Anywhere but the 'toon, he's virtually useless unless his opponents are already beaten for him. Buzzsaw can at least kick some arse, and he has a certain amount of brains to him, and yet to many, he's just a back-bencher.
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