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This is my first time customizing a toy that is NOT an Alternator.

I present to you, my first non-Alternator custom. Movie Hotshot. I had the intention to turn this extra '08 Movie Bumblebee into a movie accurate version, however, after seeing 101 customs (that were all awesome) I figured it was pointless to throw another out there.

So, here's alternate mode:















And here's bot mode. I painted the robot parts with a color called Fire Pepper Red. The paint is very strong and resiliant, as I have transformed this guy at least 50 times by now.

I thought the color fit Hotshot. No blackwash ...but I did highlight some areas with Testor's gloss red. I detailed some other areas with a combination of black, silver, and gold.

The helmet was created with a lego space man visor, and is held in place by two eyeglass repair kit screws. It is able to move up and down.















I'm anxious to hear what everyone thinks...during the movie I kept picturing Bumblebee as a cross of G1 Bumblebee and Armada Hotshot...and thats where I got the idea.

So...for those of you that don't like Hotshot...you can think of this as Allspark Bumblebee...hahaha

Taking a look at the pics, I realize now that you can see the license plate numbers through the red paint. The flash must have brought that out, cause you can't see it in person. Weird.

not bad! I like it!

I'd decided to leave the hood stripes on my Bee repaint, but I might rethink that. I really like what you've done with the hood scoop. The visor is a nice touch too.

Cool to see the homages coming. Any more planned?

I like him. I plan to do something completely different when I get one, but I love the idea. It works great.

Bravo!

so much better than armada hotshot. I love the visor. and I love how dark the red turned out.

Now are you going to make armada megs out of brawl? I saw the leader version of him they're coming out with even has the barrel that raps around the side of his waist.

I can buy him a whole lot easier as Hotshot then I can as Bumblebee. I almost wished they had called him Hot Shot in the movie, it fits so well.

That's actually really cool. I love that red, too.

And now he's on e-Bay!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250153230591

so how many people have cried herasy for this yet? and wow, are you going to be making any more AEC figures into movie toys?

yep he definatley works as hotshot, nice job

keeblezak wrote:so how many people have cried herasy for this yet? and wow, are you going to be making any more AEC figures into movie toys?

Probably! Although I probably won't use such a rare toy next time!

Stay tuned, cause I'm gonna post a Nemesis Prime next! (he's kind of a universal character now...but he got his start in Armada)

Looking very good. I see you've switched from alts to the movie figs to make your Armada hommages.

And just as with the alts, this is very VERY good. I love the red. Visor looks a bit off as I would imagine visors would look very different in the movie (didn't BB actually have some sort of visor in the movie), but other then that, I absolutely love this one.

Beautifull bash.

$76 dollars - nice profit! Congratulations!