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Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:27 pm

i got the idea from a pic i saw the person who came up with the idea was mint condition customs. only i did not have to paint mine. i just added some wheels and a little cutting and drilling and bam! he is a triple changer. i also decided to give him better feet instead of those ugly chicken legs.

News Credits: 6188 · Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:49 pm

Damn.

Wait till robotmel sees this.

Damn.

Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:57 pm

That is beautiful. O_O Whose wheels did ya steal?

Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:27 pm

RAcast wrote:That is beautiful. O_O Whose wheels did ya steal?

DOTM skids. and i am working on making his feet not chicken feet.

Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:36 am

wow looks great. deffinate inprovement.

News Credits: 14 · Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:18 am

Doubledealer93 wrote:i got the idea from a pic i saw the person who came up with the idea was mint condition customs. only i did not have to paint mine. i just added some wheels and a little cutting and drilling and bam! he is a triple changer. i also decided to give him better feet instead of those ugly chicken legs.

Va'al wrote:Damn.

Wait till robotmel sees this.

Damn.

HOLY FLIPPIN' MOLEY!

That is an awesome take on everyones favourite triple changer!

Very well done sir :BOWDOWN:

I love the buggy mode too, looks great.

I hope this gets front paged in the monthly Custom Round Up.

News Credits: 226 · Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:27 am

robotmel wrote:I hope this gets front paged in the monthly Custom Round Up.

1 - All customs get "front paged"
2 - It's weekly
3 - You just jinxed it.

News Credits: 14 · Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:56 am

Burn wrote:
robotmel wrote:I hope this gets front paged in the monthly Custom Round Up.

1 - All customs get "front paged"
2 - It's weekly
3 - You just jinxed it.

Oops!!!

I would gladly carve up Movie Skids for this custom, its his derpy arm that gets me everytime! :lol:

News Credits: 9 · Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:30 am

That's absolutely amazing. And the feet really help as well.

Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:02 am

thank you all for the input! im glad you like him!

News Credits: 2 · Mon Nov 26, 2012 9:24 am

That is awesome. It beats Warbot in my opinion! What did you make the feet from?

Mon Nov 26, 2012 10:47 am

Banjo-Tron wrote:That is awesome. It beats Warbot in my opinion! What did you make the feet from?

a darth maul transformer.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:38 am

This is sweeeeeet! Good job!

News Credits: 3 · Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:35 pm

Well played, sir!

It's impressive what a difference six pieces of plastic make.

I would have gladly bought your version of Springer had I found it on a rack.

News Credits: 15 · Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:56 am

Doubledealer93 wrote:thank you all for the input! im glad you like him!

I do not like him. Rather, I love him.

Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:49 pm

Wow, that mod fixes everything! The proportions, the legs, it adds a third buggy mode (which looks very S7 styled)
I love it! It's everything you would want in this mold!

News Credits: 4 · Sun Dec 09, 2012 5:01 am

you did an amazing job, lad. amazing!

(and I already liked the one Hasbro made)

News Credits: 187 · Sun Dec 09, 2012 9:50 am

This is freaking genius! It looks so.... right. I just went and looked at mine (stock version) and comparing it to the pics, it's as if I got shorted half of his bits. Outstanding job making this look believable. Factory engineering in appearance is a challenging achievement, especially in a mod this substantial. Fantastic work! :APPLAUSE:

Sun Dec 09, 2012 4:40 pm

robotmel wrote:
Doubledealer93 wrote:i got the idea from a pic i saw the person who came up with the idea was mint condition customs. only i did not have to paint mine. i just added some wheels and a little cutting and drilling and bam! he is a triple changer. i also decided to give him better feet instead of those ugly chicken legs.

Va'al wrote:Damn.

Wait till robotmel sees this.

Damn.

HOLY FLIPPIN' MOLEY!

That is an awesome take on everyones favourite triple changer!

Very well done sir
I love the buggy mode too, looks great.
I hope this gets front paged in the monthly Custom Round Up.

Who's feet did you use and great job very clean looking

Sun Dec 09, 2012 7:55 pm

glad you all like it! thanks! and i used the feet from a darth maul transformer.

News Credits: 9 · Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:19 pm

really great work with this one!!
looks completely organic and natural, not forced or unnatural

Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:10 pm

I was so inspired by Doubledealer's Springer, I had to do one myself. I am really happy with the results and that it required no paint. I took a slightly different approach though. I thought I'd share what I did with some extra detail to make it easy for others if they want to copy it.

All the additional parts are from a TF movie 1 Wreckage (i had two of them).
Parts from Wreckage:
- 4 Wheels
- 2 feet
- two shoulder ball joints (for Springer's new ankles). fyi, these were hell to extract and it ended up breaking Wreckage :-(

.

The wheels turn wonderfully, are not wobbly, and seem to be very secure.
- To attach the wheels to the back I drilled tiny little holes in springer's original feet(lined up w/ the internal tube) and used regular screws that were pretty short (i think .5 in or less)
- To attach the wheels to the front, I put epoxy putty in the back of the missile launchers. Then I used the same screws to affix the wheels. Also, the missiles still work if you shorten the back of them!

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