The AutoBat
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:21 amHi guys, just wanna share another custom of mine 
It's basically a repainted Generations Sanstorm with Batmobile parts (with some additional Gundam joints and random TF parts) slapped on him. The idea had struck me ever since I got Springer, but Seibertron's gallery of SS convinced me that the huge wheels fits better with the mod, as does the additional backkibble to rest his Batcape on. A Drift figure was sacrificed for his door-wing joints for AutoBat's feet addon, as well as the chest armor.
Shield-roof-cape piece is now attached to Sandstorm's weapon handle via a gundam joint, so he's technically a semi-partsformer.
The AutoBat is painted entirely with Gundam Markers plus metallic Sharpies for the Bronze/Silver/Gold details. It was quite a hassle to do because of the way some parts interlocks in some crazy ways and I'm just not that confident to start taking pins out without damaging the figure, so I had to use paintbrushes to get into some nooks and crannies.
BatEars comes from the thin plactic pieces ontop of Sandstorm's gun. Most of the hard work of this mod is the tiresome process of cutting/filing the chest to allow the ears to pass through during transformation.
Tumbler Mode
The entire project was made just so I could fit all of the Batmobile pieces onto Sandstorm
.
It's just too bad I couldn't fit in the awesome rubber wheels.
It also means The AutoBat had a half-assed Jet mode
The Batmobile parts comes from Moebius' 1:25 plastic model kit.
More pictures from multiple angles here!
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/guarayakha/library/AutoBat
Currently I'm thinking of using the leftover Batmobile wheels for maybe 2 Batpod TFs which also combines into a larger bot similar Victory's Multiforce, but that sounds like too much work and I can't think of any TFs that could fit well with the thin-frame aesthetics
Thanks for stopping by and cheers!
It's basically a repainted Generations Sanstorm with Batmobile parts (with some additional Gundam joints and random TF parts) slapped on him. The idea had struck me ever since I got Springer, but Seibertron's gallery of SS convinced me that the huge wheels fits better with the mod, as does the additional backkibble to rest his Batcape on. A Drift figure was sacrificed for his door-wing joints for AutoBat's feet addon, as well as the chest armor.
Shield-roof-cape piece is now attached to Sandstorm's weapon handle via a gundam joint, so he's technically a semi-partsformer.
The AutoBat is painted entirely with Gundam Markers plus metallic Sharpies for the Bronze/Silver/Gold details. It was quite a hassle to do because of the way some parts interlocks in some crazy ways and I'm just not that confident to start taking pins out without damaging the figure, so I had to use paintbrushes to get into some nooks and crannies.
BatEars comes from the thin plactic pieces ontop of Sandstorm's gun. Most of the hard work of this mod is the tiresome process of cutting/filing the chest to allow the ears to pass through during transformation.
Tumbler Mode
The entire project was made just so I could fit all of the Batmobile pieces onto Sandstorm
.It's just too bad I couldn't fit in the awesome rubber wheels.
It also means The AutoBat had a half-assed Jet mode
The Batmobile parts comes from Moebius' 1:25 plastic model kit.
More pictures from multiple angles here!
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/guarayakha/library/AutoBat
Currently I'm thinking of using the leftover Batmobile wheels for maybe 2 Batpod TFs which also combines into a larger bot similar Victory's Multiforce, but that sounds like too much work and I can't think of any TFs that could fit well with the thin-frame aesthetics
Thanks for stopping by and cheers!
