Siege Welcoming Committee
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:59 pmHey all, I figured I should start posting my many, many customs from late 2019! After buying a Redwing in October, I was hooked on the siege seekers and purchased more... and more... and more of them.
I decided to do three full repaints to make my welcoming committee, inspired primarily by the BotCon "rainmaker" set. Since the red/white wing stripes were missing from the retail siegekers I REALLY want to push them here.
Sunstorm was fully repainted from a Thundercracker, which was a really bad decision in hindsight given the number of coats required to blot out that blue and black... oh well, it was a learning experience! I based his colors primarily on the Takara Masterpiece toy. Unfortunately, that makes him more of "the yellow one" than "the orange one" but I don't mind it much.
Hotlink was repainted from a Starscream. One could argue this was also a bad decision given the recently revealed WFC Hotlink. I, however, plan to keep this Hotlink and use the official release as Cyberverse's all-purple Nova Storm. This thread will probably be updated once that set comes out and Hotlink can get a proper flamethrower. For now though, he has pyrokinetic powers from the red-orange "power core" Shockwave embedded in his shoulder. The overall look was a mix of his cartoon appearance and Cybertron Skywarp.
Bitstream was made from another Starscream, with his BotCon toy and Energon Starscream as the inspirations. If he was cartoon accurate, he would be another bright blue seeker! We have plenty of those already, thank you Hasbro. The green "power core" in his shoulder is supposed to let him become invisible but its energy is leaking into the rest of his systems.
Finally, a fun little shot of Bitstream and Hotlink acting as Shockwave's lab assistants. In my little headcanon for these guys, Sunstorm is an extremely radioactive and violent outlier Shockwave has kept in stasis since before the war. Shockwave tried funneling some of Sunstorm's potent spark energy into the "power cores" in Bitstream's and Hotlink's shoulders to give them outlier powers, but this process wouldn't be perfected until he empowered the rainmakers. In this shot, Bitstream and Hotlink have messed up Shockwave's latest attempt to make a clone body for himself.
UPDATE March 16, 2020: Vehicle and "Green Goblin" mode photos:
I decided to do three full repaints to make my welcoming committee, inspired primarily by the BotCon "rainmaker" set. Since the red/white wing stripes were missing from the retail siegekers I REALLY want to push them here.
Sunstorm was fully repainted from a Thundercracker, which was a really bad decision in hindsight given the number of coats required to blot out that blue and black... oh well, it was a learning experience! I based his colors primarily on the Takara Masterpiece toy. Unfortunately, that makes him more of "the yellow one" than "the orange one" but I don't mind it much.
Hotlink was repainted from a Starscream. One could argue this was also a bad decision given the recently revealed WFC Hotlink. I, however, plan to keep this Hotlink and use the official release as Cyberverse's all-purple Nova Storm. This thread will probably be updated once that set comes out and Hotlink can get a proper flamethrower. For now though, he has pyrokinetic powers from the red-orange "power core" Shockwave embedded in his shoulder. The overall look was a mix of his cartoon appearance and Cybertron Skywarp.
Bitstream was made from another Starscream, with his BotCon toy and Energon Starscream as the inspirations. If he was cartoon accurate, he would be another bright blue seeker! We have plenty of those already, thank you Hasbro. The green "power core" in his shoulder is supposed to let him become invisible but its energy is leaking into the rest of his systems.
Finally, a fun little shot of Bitstream and Hotlink acting as Shockwave's lab assistants. In my little headcanon for these guys, Sunstorm is an extremely radioactive and violent outlier Shockwave has kept in stasis since before the war. Shockwave tried funneling some of Sunstorm's potent spark energy into the "power cores" in Bitstream's and Hotlink's shoulders to give them outlier powers, but this process wouldn't be perfected until he empowered the rainmakers. In this shot, Bitstream and Hotlink have messed up Shockwave's latest attempt to make a clone body for himself.
UPDATE March 16, 2020: Vehicle and "Green Goblin" mode photos:
