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Hi guys, so here goes. I don't have an Ironhide for my Animated collection so I decided to make one. At first, I thought of just repainting my Sentinel Prime mold into IH's colors but, I'm not too sure the result would please me. So, i went searching online and came across the red pickup truck concept design from the Allspark Almanac 2. I decided to make it! it's not perfect or anything and there are some minor areas that i'd like to revisit sometime but, for now this result makes me happy!

So, here is IH. Basically the back of Sentinel Prime mold with a list of modifications:
-Sculpted Head
-seperated front part of truck from the back part of the toy, then added lego (hero factory?) ball joints to both parts to allow the IH transformation.
-removed the plows
-removed rear wheels and attached it to the legs
-swapped the hands
-added ball jointed "fake" window panels on his shoulder. these fold under the truck in alt mode.
-added stryrene/sculpted the truck to look like IH's alt mode.
-custom cannons
-minor mods and details added to look close to the design.
-painted in IH colors

That's it in a nutshell. Here he is Earth Mode Animated Ironhide. Enjoy and thanks for looking!









here he is with my custom ANIMATED SKYFIRE










MOVIE 1 LINEUP


THE REFERENCE PIC


and some WIP shots

Blurrz wrote:Color me impressed. Featuring this on the front page after I let others in the lineup get posted too...

Wow thanks very much! i've never thought of this being in the front page. thank you, this really inspires me to do some more custom works!

Dude. Awesome work.

That skyfire would be nice to see some more of too, have you put up a gallery of him yet?

RhA wrote:Dude. Awesome work.

That skyfire would be nice to see some more of too, have you put up a gallery of him yet?

Thanks, actually Skyfire is in here too. I posted it in the Extensive mods scratchbuilds forum months ago. it's titled G1 style jetfire til i decided to call him Skyfire after someone suggested it. here's the link viewtopic.php?f=144&t=69436

Thats awesome.

Looks really great, nice job.

Thanks guys!

The Trolls can get mad at me all they want, but THIS IS another reasin ANIMATED Should have been continued! After Prime ends, I hope they pick it back up, because there are just WAY to many questions left un answered.

Anyway, what I like the most about this custom is, givin the proper amount of time, that's pretty close to what hasbro probably would've givin us, huh? That's how good you are!

Good work on Both Ironhide And Skyfire. Keep it up!

seeing this makes me miss animated amazing work man, keep it up

that ironhide is cute.i like his facial expression.nice work yo.

Damn nice! I wish they'd make more animated figures. That line ended too soon.

I wish there was an Animated Season 4...

Awesome! Who was the bas figure? I know I've seen it before, but I cant think of who it is.

*edit: Nevermind. I didn't look at all of the pics. Good use of the SP mold!

This is awesome! I love your Skyfire, too!

My opinion still stands.

Well, I know what to get next if I happen across this in stores, even if it's just a kitbash.

Wow, absolutely fantastic. I couldn't even figure out what the original mold was until I re-read the intro post >_>

I love how you managed to give him a nice, bulky look but still keeping him in size with all the other Autobots. Bravo, sir.

Wow, THANKS GUYS! these are some really great and inspiring comments!And thanks for the front page feature!

nice work man, who knew the sentinel mold could actually be awesome

I like the toy. Can you show me how to build it?