The Energon Pub

by **ServO** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:45 pm

Heya team,
Well, it has been a busy Christmas/New Years, and I've been putzing with a few little projects.
Recently a good friend of mine was cleaning out his basement and he found a Transformer he was not familiar with, so he gave it to me. It was a Beast Machines Jetstorm. I did not have any experience with Beast Machines, and I had always thought the toys were kind of goofy looking, but I added the fig to my collection. There was something very familiar about the figure to me, and I decided that it's bird like design (especially the head) favored Laserbeak a bit. I tracked another Jetstorm down on Ebay for like $4 and then re-painted him into some Laserbeak colors...I modded the "jetpacks" with jet nozzles, vertical stabalizers and laser cannons as a nod to the G1 fig. we all love. Nothing drastic here, but he looks nice parked next to Jetstorm.
Thanks for looking!

by **Heckfire** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:36 am

Huh...now THAT is an interesting redeco. If you'll pardon my ignorance, where did you get the jet nozzles?

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:11 am

Heckfire wrote:Huh...now THAT is an interesting redeco. If you'll pardon my ignorance, where did you get the jet nozzles?

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say they're off a seeker, and could it be the guns are from a G1 Lazerbeak himself?

I do like that little modification you did there though. Looks VERY clean and I missed it until the last pic.

Robot mode?

by **ServO** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 2:09 am

Yes the jet nozzles are from a junk G1 seeker body, the barrels of the lasers themselves are just parts of some missiles I had lying around, and the vertical fins are leftover parts from some model kit...Robot bode will come after I get him some new hands that I have in mind from a figure I spotted at Toys-R-Us.