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While I'd heard of kitbashing and other custom transformers stuff, I never really looked into it until the merger. Since then, I've seen some great stuff, but this is something else entirely.

I've seen a lot of custom charaters and terrain for some war games I play and I have to say, even unfinished as he is, this project takes the cake (and the pie, too).

In city mode, he looks better than professional war game terrain made for photoshoots by large companies. People that specialize in simply making terrain and are paid to do don't match this level of exellence.

Once you add to that the fact that the entire thing transforms into a gianormous robot and you've reached a level I've never seen. Once this project is compleat, if I where you, I'd start assembling a portfolio and looking for a job in the modeling industry. I'm serious, you could easily go pro. (On the other tentacle, perhaps you really love your current job.)

This has got to be the greatest peice of fan art, for any franchise, in any media, ever! The only thing I've seen that even comes close was a set of full size, wearable, armor based on a character in Warmachine. (It was Colman Striker's Warcaster Armor, for those that know the game).

I really hope to see this compleated and will be watching this thread for updates. Hopefully you can get this accepted at whichever Botcon falls after the compleation. I always thought that really large transformers that wheren't to scale where silly. (Although I understand the pratical marketing reasons for them). It's nice to see someone step up and do one of these characters proper justice. If the con organizers don't see fit to allow it in, they really do have no clue.

Finally, just a few suggestions. Perhaps you've already considered this, but I think the question of eye color could be solved by having both. If you made the eyes light up using side lit plexi, you could alternate red and blue LEDs and then have a switch to change the color. (You could even light up both for purple. No basis for that, but the slight changes to the wiring required would add yet another feature. If you used a three position switch with the order blue -> purple -> red, then you could slide the switch all the way and his eyes would do a cool transition.)

Have you considered motorizing the visor, like you plan to do with the bridges? Obviously, one could go overboard with putting motors all over the place and doom the project, but I think the visor might be worthy of such attention. It would also give him an automated feature in bot mode, as well as the one already planed for alt mode.

Finally, a bit of advice for any inhabitants of autobot city. Clearly Metroplex is shifting a lot of mass into subspace when he transforms. Please do not leave any enegon lying around. We'd all hate to have an accident.

Best of luck and keep up the good work.

He looks happy.

Reminds me of the faint smile of Classics Bumblebee.

[quote="Karatorian"]While I'd heard of kitbashing and other custom transformers stuff, I never really looked into it until the merger. Since then, I've seen some great stuff, but this is something else entirely.

I've seen a lot of custom charaters and terrain for some war games I play and I have to say, even unfinished as he is, this project takes the cake (and the pie, too).

In city mode, he looks better than professional war game terrain made for photoshoots by large companies. People that specialize in simply making terrain and are paid to do don't match this level of exellence.

Once you add to that the fact that the entire thing transforms into a gianormous robot and you've reached a level I've never seen. Once this project is compleat, if I where you, I'd start assembling a portfolio and looking for a job in the modeling industry. I'm serious, you could easily go pro. (On the other tentacle, perhaps you really love your current job.)

This has got to be the greatest peice of fan art, for any franchise, in any media, ever! The only thing I've seen that even comes close was a set of full size, wearable, armor based on a character in Warmachine. (It was Colman Striker's Warcaster Armor, for those that know the game).

I really hope to see this compleated and will be watching this thread for updates. Hopefully you can get this accepted at whichever Botcon falls after the compleation. I always thought that really large transformers that wheren't to scale where silly. (Although I understand the pratical marketing reasons for them). It's nice to see someone step up and do one of these characters proper justice. If the con organizers don't see fit to allow it in, they really do have no clue.

Finally, just a few suggestions. Perhaps you've already considered this, but I think the question of eye color could be solved by having both. If you made the eyes light up using side lit plexi, you could alternate red and blue LEDs and then have a switch to change the color. (You could even light up both for purple. No basis for that, but the slight changes to the wiring required would add yet another feature. If you used a three position switch with the order blue -> purple -> red, then you could slide the switch all the way and his eyes would do a cool transition.)

Have you considered motorizing the visor, like you plan to do with the bridges? Obviously, one could go overboard with putting motors all over the place and doom the project, but I think the visor might be worthy of such attention. It would also give him an automated feature in bot mode, as well as the one already planed for alt mode.

Finally, a bit of advice for any inhabitants of autobot city. Clearly Metroplex is shifting a lot of mass into subspace when he transforms. Please do not leave any enegon lying around. We'd all hate to have an accident.

Best of luck and keep up the good work.