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Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:45 pm

Hi everyone, I want to create a realistic scaled collection of movie line transformers. I was wondering if anyone may have some pictures or may be willing to take some of a realistic scaled collection in vehicle mode? Any help would be appreciated

News Credits: 7 · Sun Jul 01, 2012 1:34 pm

These guys have a topic doing comparission of vehicle modes:
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transform ... oject.html

and of course we have this pic:

EDIT:And this

News Credits: 7 · Sun Jul 01, 2012 6:24 pm

What's nice about Movieverse is that only Starscream mass-shifts to any extreme degree. Everyone who's in scale in one mode will still be in scale in the other.

I've got to update this, but:

Everyone here is around 1/60 scale; Deluxe Optimus Prime, Wreckage, and many Legends cars fit in it, too. It ranges from 1/low-50s to 1/high-60s in exact scale, which is admittedly a large gap, but it's as close as we're ever going to get. Besides, the only thing immediately "off" (besides the mass-shifting Starscream) are the tanks that should really be the same size.
No Ironhide or Ratchet fits here, unfortunately. Really need a Scout of those two.

1/90 Scale. Not much use for screen-accuracy, but a lot of the aircraft TFs are at this scale, including Skyhammer and Incinerator.

1/5 Scale is pretty much just limited to these two. And maybe FAB Frenzy (don't have him, so don't know exactly).

Definitely check out the Transformers Scale Project TulioDude linked to. A lot of effort went into that.

Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:05 pm

I'm once again so very glad I don't care about scale that much, particularly in vehicle mode! It's way too much of a headache. xD

Thanks for the link though, that was fun to look through! Those folks over at the 2005 boards did a great job!

News Credits: 9 · Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:12 am

Here's how my collection is grouped by scale:

These pictures are out of date but they're mostly grouped by vehicle size except for leader Starscream and leader Jetfire.

Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:31 am

Thanks alot for your help guys! I was wondering, lets say all the cars would be deluxes, all the trucks, pickups, etc.(maybe some helicopters/planes) voyager. And the tanks, jets, and sentinel prime

would be leader class. Would that look good?

Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:25 am

[quote="TulioDude"] and of course we have this pic:

If we go by this picture, then Optimus Prime is just a tad bigger than Ironhide and Ratchet. Therefore The correct scale would be:
Deluxe class: Jazz, Bumblebee, Barricade
Voyager class: Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Ratchet
Leader class: Starscream
==> All cars should be deluxe. Trucks/ pickups/ etc. should be voyagers. This leaves jets/ airplanes/ helicopters and tanks to be leader or voyager. (Depending on which vehicle, since you have pretty small planes.)

Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:30 am

Noideaforaname wrote:What's nice about Movieverse is that only Starscream mass-shifts to any extreme degree. Everyone who's in scale in one mode will still be in scale in the other.

I've got to update this, but:

Everyone here is around 1/60 scale; Deluxe Optimus Prime, Wreckage, and many Legends cars fit in it, too. It ranges from 1/low-50s to 1/high-60s in exact scale, which is admittedly a large gap, but it's as close as we're ever going to get. Besides, the only thing immediately "off" (besides the mass-shifting Starscream) are the tanks that should really be the same size.
No Ironhide or Ratchet fits here, unfortunately. Really need a Scout of those two.

1/90 Scale. Not much use for screen-accuracy, but a lot of the aircraft TFs are at this scale, including Skyhammer and Incinerator.

Definitely check out the Transformers Scale Project TulioDude linked to. A lot of effort went into that.

Those scale comparisons look good, but I don't really like cyberverse/ legends figures. I also looked through that forum, I saw you helped out there too

, it was pretty helpful!

Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:04 am

Minor update: Some youtube vids about other TF collectors putting some transformers in scale:

Cyberberverse Arcee with some movie figures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM6oYi4_28w

Leader class Optimus Prime,Voyager Ironhide and Human Alliance Jazz and Bumblebee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQgoKK-N ... re=related

DOTM voyager Optimus Prime(Vehicle comparison at the start and somewhere in the middle of the vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEVJYHpQ ... re=related

DOTM figures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWpGULvQ ... re=related

News Credits: 9 · Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:39 am

mortg wrote::D Thanks alot for your help guys! I was wondering, lets say all the cars would be deluxes, all the trucks, pickups, etc.(maybe some helicopters/planes) voyager. And the tanks, jets, and sentinel prime would be leader class. Would that look good?

Yes, apart from the jets, which would all be too small.

Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:49 am

Mykltron wrote:
mortg wrote::D Thanks alot for your help guys! I was wondering, lets say all the cars would be deluxes, all the trucks, pickups, etc.(maybe some helicopters/planes) voyager. And the tanks, jets, and sentinel prime would be leader class. Would that look good?

Yes, apart from the jets, which would all be too small.

Okay, nice collection you got there by the way.

News Credits: 9 · Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:53 am

Thank you. I've just redone the photos of my collection so the pics in my other post have changed.

Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:27 pm

Mykltron wrote:Thank you. I've just redone the photos of my collection so the pics in my other post have changed.

Yeah, nice pics, I love the repainted voyager megatron and shockwave.

Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:43 pm

From this picture it really puts into perspective how LARGE Ironhide really is. :shock:

Honestly.....that custom pick-up has been beefed up to almost the size of a semi truck. Incredible.

It should be Trailbreaker though..... 8-}

News Credits: 9 · Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:04 pm

mortg wrote:
Mykltron wrote:Thank you. I've just redone the photos of my collection so the pics in my other post have changed.

Yeah, nice pics, I love the repainted voyager megatron and shockwave.

Thanks. Have you seen the other pics of them?

Voyager RotF Megatron

Voyager DotM Shockwave

Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:47 pm

monstergrotusque wrote:

From this picture it really puts into perspective how LARGE Ironhide really is.

Honestly.....that custom pick-up has been beefed up to almost the size of a semi truck. Incredible.

It should be Trailbreaker though.....

And then they killed him.

And most ingloriously at that!

News Credits: 7 · Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:15 pm

TulioDude wrote:

Reacrete this image with toys would be sweet.

Noideaforaname wrote:No Ironhide or Ratchet fits here, unfortunately. Really need a Scout of those two.

DOTM Cyberverse Ironhide is scout sized isn't he?

monstergrotusque wrote:From this picture it really puts into perspective how LARGE Ironhide really is.

Honestly.....that custom pick-up has been beefed up to almost the size of a semi truck. Incredible.

If you think he looks big from that picture check this out:

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:50 pm

This picture is a bit busy, but thought it was cool. I don't think it is a good image of Scrapper though as he never appeared that big in the film when Prime sliced through him in DOTM or in ROTF in the desert scene he looked about the same as SS.

Click on the link to get a bigger and better detailed picture.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachmen ... ale3mb.jpg

News Credits: 7 · Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:58 pm

TulioDude wrote:DOTM Cyberverse Ironhide is scout sized isn't he?

Nope. Cyberverse Commanders really aren't anywhere near Scout-sized. CVC Ironhide is actually fairly close in scale with Cyberverse Optimus and Ratchet, though.

Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:30 am

Mykltron wrote:
mortg wrote:
Mykltron wrote:Thank you. I've just redone the photos of my collection so the pics in my other post have changed.

Yeah, nice pics, I love the repainted voyager megatron and shockwave.

Thanks. Have you seen the other pics of them?

Voyager RotF Megatron

Voyager DotM Shockwave

Wow, the details put in to them is astonishing! How long have you been doing repaints/ customs? Also, I visited your website, absolutely love your work!

Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:34 am

TulioDude wrote:
TulioDude wrote:

Reacrete this image with toys would be sweet.

Noideaforaname wrote:No Ironhide or Ratchet fits here, unfortunately. Really need a Scout of those two.

DOTM Cyberverse Ironhide is scout sized isn't he?

monstergrotusque wrote:From this picture it really puts into perspective how LARGE Ironhide really is.

Honestly.....that custom pick-up has been beefed up to almost the size of a semi truck. Incredible.

If you think he looks big from that picture check this out:

Yeah, he's just a tad smaller than Optimus in vehicle mode, but in robot mode Optimus is much bigger :-?

Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:38 am

dirk2243 wrote:This picture is a bit busy, but thought it was cool. I don't think it is a good image of Scrapper though as he never appeared that big in the film when Prime sliced through him in DOTM or in ROTF in the desert scene he looked about the same as SS.

Click on the link to get a bigger and better detailed picture.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachmen ... ale3mb.jpg

Great find! To recreate realistic sizes, we'd have to use legends/cyberverse for the cars and trucks, deluxe for the tanks, and so on. Now, I must admit I'm not really fan of cyberverse/legends mostly because of their inaccuracy.

News Credits: 9 · Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:59 am

mortg wrote:
Mykltron wrote:
mortg wrote:
Mykltron wrote:Thank you. I've just redone the photos of my collection so the pics in my other post have changed.

Yeah, nice pics, I love the repainted voyager megatron and shockwave.

Thanks. Have you seen the other pics of them?

Voyager RotF Megatron

Voyager DotM Shockwave

Wow, the details put in to them is astonishing! How long have you been doing repaints/ customs? Also, I visited your website, absolutely love your work!

Thanks! My first repaint was Classics Starscream and my first modification was Classics Cliffjumper (hip mod for more range of motion) so that will give you a clue when I started.

mortg wrote:Yeah, he's just a tad smaller than Optimus in vehicle mode, but in robot mode Optimus is much bigger

Ironhide is shorter but very stocky, OP is taller and very thin. Having said that, they probably screwed up scale as well.

News Credits: 9 · Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:02 am

Here's a link to a bigger version of that scale picture.

Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:52 am

mortg wrote:Yeah, he's just a tad smaller than Optimus in vehicle mode, but in robot mode Optimus is much bigger

Ironhide is shorter but very stocky, OP is taller and very thin. Having said that, they probably screwed up scale as well.[/quote]
Yeah, I think they screwed it up, even if Optimus is tall and thin, he's still too tall in my opinion.