Broadside is one of my favorite triple changers ever since I set my eyes on his G1 toy photo decades ago.
I had a chance to acquire Chinese KO version of him many years ago (bundled together with a few KO combiner limbs) but sadly missed out on it. So I never owned / played with this toy to understand his notoriety as a brick-former in the TF fandom.
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Anyway... 9 years ago I attempted LEGO Broadside version 1 (below) .
VERSION 1
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As you can see... the ship mode looks fat and the plane mode has saggy wings. duh!
VERSION 2
Few months ago I started this v2 project after I saw a photo of Macross Valkyrie in my FB feed . That's an eureka moment where I kinda got the transformation to jet mode figured out.
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From there , I took a few breaks in between to retreat, rethink and redo it to get the right shaping in both his alt modes.
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Inspired by USS Nimitz, the back of the ship mode must be symmetrical to provide more mass to form robot legs, unlike an actual ship show above .
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Compared to v1, the ship mode v2 here is missing armaments on the deck. This is a nod to G1 Broadside's bio about "his vulnerability in ship mode and the need to rely on his passengers to protect him."
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RMS Titanic is a Transformer too
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One of the transformation step: fold the ship deck to form the jet mode's rear.
JET MODE
Jet mode was inspired by F-14 Tomcat.
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Since the ship mode is long, this causes the halved deck to form pretty long wings for the jet.
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ROBOT MODE!
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In the actual G1 toy of Broadside, he's equipped with an Axe and also a gun. Here, I've decided to integrate them both as a single weapon (Axe turning to gun)... and it's named Hull-Raiser.
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When not on active duty, he tend to his farm and crops.
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With fellow triple changers that I built recently, Rodimus Prime and Snapdragon
For more photos of Broadside v2 and clearer visuals on how he transform between modes , click on my blog link below:
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