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Sabrblade wrote:Or maybe I just have poor reception.

You're in analog - switch to digital and your reception will be better!

Sabrblade wrote:Though, that Heinrad is just in a generic Cybertronian body not taken from any existing toy. Dunno where Mindmaster heard of it being based on Prime Knock Out.

Sadly, I looked up images, and the similarities aren't that apparent. I just assumed that a senior member like Mindmaster would know what he was talking about if he chose to mention such a theory.

You know what? I'll find a way to mod my own Heinrad, if FunPub doesn't bother. I'm gonna get some paint to make a seeker squadron out of the $5 Prime Rumbles I found at 5 Below (for some reason, I really want a Prime Rumble in YELLOW!). Maybe a Heinrad mod is somewhere there in the future... The Wreckgar/Junkion body would be a cool base, IMO.

Sabrblade wrote:However, his speech does seem to be patterned a bit after The Doctor.

You've said that a few times: I'm not sure what that means!

Metrosuplex wrote:Sadly, I looked up images, and the similarities aren't that apparent. I just assumed that a senior member like Mindmaster would know what he was talking about if he chose to mention such a theory.

Looking around, someone on The Allspark joked about potentially being able to fake that Heinrad design with the Prime Knock Out toy, but I think that was also one of that site's customizers who said that.

Metrosuplex wrote:You know what? I'll find a way to mod my own Heinrad, if FunPub doesn't bother. I'm gonna get some paint to make a seeker squadron out of the $5 Prime Rumbles I found at 5 Below (for some reason, I really want a Prime Rumble in YELLOW!). Maybe a Heinrad mod is somewhere there in the future... The Wreckgar/Junkion body would be a cool base, IMO.

Ganbatte.

Metrosuplex wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:However, his speech does seem to be patterned a bit after The Doctor.

You've said that a few times: I'm not sure what that means!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(Doctor_Who)

Sabrblade wrote:Ganbatte.

Ganbaritai!!!

Sabrblade wrote:

Metrosuplex wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:However, his speech does seem to be patterned a bit after The Doctor.

You've said that a few times: I'm not sure what that means!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(Doctor_Who)

Doctor Who reference still seem rather obscure to me, but the program has hit my radar with its rabid cult following.

A Japanese phrase followed by a British reference? I'm starting to question your identity, Sabr!

Metrosuplex wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Ganbatte.

Ganbaritai!!!

Sabrblade wrote:

Metrosuplex wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:However, his speech does seem to be patterned a bit after The Doctor.

You've said that a few times: I'm not sure what that means!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(Doctor_Who)

Doctor Who reference still seem rather obscure to me, but the program has hit my radar with its rabid cult following.

A Japanese phrase followed by a British reference? I'm starting to question your identity, Sabr!

It's sabr, take one encyclopedia and blend thoroughly, you'll get all kinds of things. [/sarcasm]

Well, let's review:

Time traveller
Friends in various continuities
Travelling companion who's not quite all there...
Time Traveller who's not quite all there...
Likes to talk in big words and be roundabout in his meanings (I'd really love to tlel you it all works out in the end... but I can't)
Different body than any of us can recognize,
comments on new and unusual sensations that we take for granted...

Actually, pretty generic summary there. But now I really want a Heinrad figure that turns into a phone booth. The Docotr did have a motorbike though that he rode up the side of a building once, so there's always that.

EDIT: Also, just to get the creative juices going, here's Junkheap as Optimus Prime Heinrad Sorry, but Heinrad's comic colors just end up in all the places Prime's do. Blue legs, red chest, blue helmet, white face(mask)

For those wondering, I did the clock on a transparent filter to try to pull the details back through of Junkheap's chest. But I don't think that worked as well as I wanted it too. Still, its a reference photo, and if anyone does this, I only ask they make two and keep me in mind.

Also, since you brought them up earlier,m they just opened a Five Below near me. Those stores are AWESOME. I just wish there was something out I wanted more than one of. Like Vehicons, but they didn't have any of those.

Flashwave wrote:It's sabr, take one encyclopedia and blend thoroughly, you'll get all kinds of things. [/sarcasm]

No offense to Sabr, but I don't buy that. This is the internet, and for all we know, he has one hand typing these replies and the other typing up search queries on a second laptop. Versus the typical internet user, I mean, with one hand in his pants! Any typographical errors I commit can be blamed on that. My using one hand, I mean. For legitimate reasons.

Flashwave wrote:EDIT: Also, just to get the creative juices going, here's Junkheap as Optimus Prime Heinrad Sorry, but Heinrad's comic colors just end up in all the places Prime's do. Blue legs, red chest, blue helmet, white face(mask)

Looks great!!! i think you should do BROWN, not red, though. And some tanooki "stones" maybe? He should definitely keep the drinking jug, cause that's just hilarious (and I'm a sober fellow, too). And the last thing I want is his face (nose, etc.) - the face plate looks too Optimus...

Flashwave wrote:Also, since you brought them up earlier,m they just opened a Five Below near me. Those stores are AWESOME. I just wish there was something out I wanted more than one of. Like Vehicons, but they didn't have any of those.

I totally wish they had some damn Vehicons. I swear I read a post about too many Vehicons and not enough Kup's and Rumble's. I'm all, " That's all my 5 Belows have!!!"

They're opening more in the Chicago suburbs, so in no time... gonna have some convenient hunting grounds.

Still, I'm thinking I will repaint some Kup's and Rumble's as random Autobot and Decepticon grunts. Kup, especially, seems like a good mold for a background character - except that awful monkey face. I considered the Takara Iron Hide version, but what for? Iron Hide monkey??? I wish Hasbro could stick to some more G1 faces - the kind of gothic, artistic majesty that makes TF look like Roman gods.

Metrosuplex wrote:

Flashwave wrote:It's sabr, take one encyclopedia and blend thoroughly, you'll get all kinds of things. [/sarcasm]

No offense to Sabr, but I don't buy that. This is the internet, and for all we know, he has one hand typing these replies and the other typing up search queries on a second laptop. Versus the typical internet user, I mean, with one hand in his pants! Any typographical errors I commit can be blamed on that. My using one hand, I mean. For legitimate reasons.

Flashwave wrote:EDIT: Also, just to get the creative juices going, here's Junkheap as Optimus Prime Heinrad Sorry, but Heinrad's comic colors just end up in all the places Prime's do. Blue legs, red chest, blue helmet, white face(mask)

Looks great!!! i think you should do BROWN, not red, though. And some tanooki "stones" maybe? He should definitely keep the drinking jug, cause that's just hilarious (and I'm a sober fellow, too). And the last thing I want is his face (nose, etc.) - the face plate looks too Optimus...

Flashwave wrote:Also, since you brought them up earlier,m they just opened a Five Below near me. Those stores are AWESOME. I just wish there was something out I wanted more than one of. Like Vehicons, but they didn't have any of those.

I totally wish they had some damn Vehicons. I swear I read a post about too many Vehicons and not enough Kup's and Rumble's. I'm all, " That's all my 5 Belows have!!!"

They're opening more in the Chicago suburbs, so in no time... gonna have some convenient hunting grounds.

Still, I'm thinking I will repaint some Kup's and Rumble's as random Autobot and Decepticon grunts. Kup, especially, seems like a good mold for a background character - except that awful monkey face. I considered the Takara Iron Hide version, but what for? Iron Hide monkey??? I wish Hasbro could stick to some more G1 faces - the kind of gothic, artistic majesty that makes TF look like Roman gods.

Tanooki stones?

A drinking jug would be cool, but knowing FunPub's limitations, not that concerned. I'll try it with Wreck-Gar's face (Wasn't there a third Junkion somewhere?) and more brownish colors, I went with Red because of FunPub's looking more red to me, but he doesn't eed to look like Optiumus Prime.

(Psst, Hey Pete! Hey Ben! I'm doing your work for yas! I accept payment in free toys! *snicker*)

Here's one for you, this is a project that I abandoned half-finished: PRID Kup as the yellow Turbomaster truck dood. Cannons are righ,t ad the vehicle proportions are not far off. I really liked the mold for Ironhide, but its A) too small, and B)Not domestic. I keep seeing him on ebay for 22 plus an absurd shipping, and I'd just as soon get a winged Vehicon or Nightmare Unicron. I NEED a good Ironhide though, and at this point, I'm "THIS" close to digging out my Descent into Evil Ironhide. (I lkike that he has that combat deck, but more importantly too me, he's not trying to stare down his own cleavage... and the vehicle panel seams are not absurd....)

(Yes, I went there..)

You're a little behind with Scorch. He was released in 2010 with Shattered Glass Ravage (see him waving?) :



And Tanooki Stones... eh, yeah... They're big and wedged between his legs. When one asks "want to play the drums" for the love of Primus don't say yes!

From the DeviantArt of peniler Will Mangrin (who worked on this comic) - http://beamer.deviantart.com/art/Transtech-Heinrad-Design-doodle-400093853

Here's a real quick sketch I did tweaking Heinrad into a transtech design. I had a lot of input from a previous design I was sent that Alex Milne had sketched up on the character, but I tweaked it quite a bit. He wasn't really based on any existing toy... just tried to make him sleek, tt-ish, and still retain a bit of his Heinrad-ness.

Huh. If he's "TransTech Heinrad", I guess he might not be the same guy as the Beast Wars Neo guy. Not sure how I feel about that.

Mangrin's also posted the line art for the first three pages of this comic:

Page 1 - http://beamer.deviantart.com/art/TFSS-Timeless-Page-1-400092300

Page 2 - http://beamer.deviantart.com/art/TFSS-Timeless-Page-2-400093124

Page 3 - http://beamer.deviantart.com/art/TFSS-Timeless-Page-3-400093530

This is up and revealed now so... Imma post it.
Page 1 of the Transformer Club preview comic featuring the subscription service figures they're releasing this year. Or rather... This page is mostly just TT Rhinox and TT Heinrad looking at stuff.
Had fun designing (mostly tweaking) Heinrad for this.
Inks are by the awesomely talented Jake Isenberg

Full the preview comic with colors and words, go here: transformersclub.com/TCC_FSS2.

This is up and revealed now so... Imma post it.
Page 2 of the Transformer Club preview comic featuring the subscription service figures they're releasing this year.
This page featured Rhinox and Heinrad peeking in on Fisitron under fire from Barricade and Frenzy.
Fisitron is a fun character to draw (in any generation).

Inks are by the awesomely talented :iconinker-guy: Jake Isenberg

Full the preview comic with colors and words, go here: transformersclub.com/TCC_FSS2.…

This is up and revealed now so... Imma post it.
Page 3 of the Transformer Club preview comic featuring the subscription service figures they're releasing this year.
This page introduced TFSS Chromedome... Though, the version I put in there on the screen was swapped out for what artist Hayato Sakamoto actually drew him

Inks are by the awesomely talented :iconinker-guy: Jake Isenberg

Full the preview comic with colors and words, go here: transformersclub.com/TCC_FSS2.…

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:You're a little behind with Scorch. He was released in 2010 with Shattered Glass Ravage (see him waving?) :

Not actually forgotten, I just like the Kup/Ironhide mold for him better than Hound, I wanted a good excuse to own the Kup mold, because I don't think it holds a candle to the Generations Kup (Yeah, I'm one of THOSE collectors) and Scorch looked like a good candidate, with the stubby cannons and all. Also, I don't have The Botcon set Hound is just too Hound for me unless we can get a Detritus out of him.

Sabrblade wrote:From the DeviantArt of peniler Will Mangrin (who worked on this comic) - http://beamer.deviantart.com/art/Transtech-Heinrad-Design-doodle-400093853

Here's a real quick sketch I did tweaking Heinrad into a transtech design. I had a lot of input from a previous design I was sent that Alex Milne had sketched up on the character, but I tweaked it quite a bit. He wasn't really based on any existing toy... just tried to make him sleek, tt-ish, and still retain a bit of his Heinrad-ness.

Huh. If he's "TransTech Heinrad", I guess he might not be the same guy as the Beast Wars Neo guy. Not sure how I feel about that.

Mangrin's also posted the line art for the first three pages of this comic:

Page 1 - http://beamer.deviantart.com/art/TFSS-Timeless-Page-1-400092300

Page 2 - http://beamer.deviantart.com/art/TFSS-Timeless-Page-2-400093124

Page 3 - http://beamer.deviantart.com/art/TFSS-Timeless-Page-3-400093530

This is up and revealed now so... Imma post it.
Page 1 of the Transformer Club preview comic featuring the subscription service figures they're releasing this year. Or rather... This page is mostly just TT Rhinox and TT Heinrad looking at stuff.
Had fun designing (mostly tweaking) Heinrad for this.
Inks are by the awesomely talented Jake Isenberg

Full the preview comic with colors and words, go here: transformersclub.com/TCC_FSS2.

This is up and revealed now so... Imma post it.
Page 2 of the Transformer Club preview comic featuring the subscription service figures they're releasing this year.
This page featured Rhinox and Heinrad peeking in on Fisitron under fire from Barricade and Frenzy.
Fisitron is a fun character to draw (in any generation).

Inks are by the awesomely talented :iconinker-guy: Jake Isenberg

Full the preview comic with colors and words, go here: transformersclub.com/TCC_FSS2.…

This is up and revealed now so... Imma post it.
Page 3 of the Transformer Club preview comic featuring the subscription service figures they're releasing this year.
This page introduced TFSS Chromedome... Though, the version I put in there on the screen was swapped out for what artist Hayato Sakamoto actually drew him

Inks are by the awesomely talented :iconinker-guy: Jake Isenberg

Full the preview comic with colors and words, go here: transformersclub.com/TCC_FSS2.…

Yes, that is definately an IDW Chromedome head, even if it is on a Prime body...

Also, count the number of Magnuses. Note the distinctive lack of one Mammoth, and the oddly static shaped patter of white off tot he side that is kinda sorta mammoth kibbly shaped. An oops? Or did someone actually draw in a second Mammoth? And who's the back center guy? Teh shopulder wings look wrong for RID guy.

Flashwave wrote:Yes, that is definately an IDW Chromedome head, even if it is on a Prime body...

'Course. It's supposed to be (a version of) IDW Chromedome.

Flashwave wrote:Also, count the number of Magnuses. Note the distinctive lack of one Mammoth, and the oddly static shaped patter of white off tot he side that is kinda sorta mammoth kibbly shaped.

The secomd G1 Magnus us also missing.

Flashwave wrote:An oops? Or did someone actually draw in a second Mammoth?

They might have just drew the second G1 Magnus and the second Mammoth in the final draft to fill out the empty spaces.

Flashwave wrote:And who's the back center guy? Teh shopulder wings look wrong for RID guy.

It's the RiD guy.