Pub Talk: Pose for the Camera

This is a little series I started a couple months back done in the vain of Toy Story. Please tell me what you think

And now, The thrilling conclusion of our story.

Seeker argument where Starscream called Jetfire old and decrepid forgetting that it's possible to be a badass grandpa and to not piss them off.



Grandpa Jetfire tells Bumblebee and Lockdown some crazy tall tale about how all three have the same 'vocal processing unit'.

Nice! Thanks for the feature. I missed the shark one when it was originally posted, very cool.

Hey those are great pics! I used to be a lurker up until I met most of the crew at Botcon 2009, ten years ago.

"This ends HERE, Megatron!"

@Nexusrayne

Nexusrayne wrote:This is a little series I started a couple months back done in the vain of Toy

Cute.

"Ah, by attaching my gun to my arm like so, I can have both hands free! What a totally original idea nobody else ever had before. I am a genius"

Nexusrayne wrote:This is a little series I started a couple months back done in the vain of Toy Story. Please tell me what you think

Is this an upscaled TR Megatron or a downscaled MP Prime?

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Nexusrayne wrote:This is a little series I started a couple months back done in the vain of Toy Story. Please tell me what you think

Is this an upscaled TR Megatron or a downscaled MP Prime?

Probably a down-scaled Prime. MP-10V would be your key word if your curious.

carytheone wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Nexusrayne wrote:This is a little series I started a couple months back done in the vain of Toy Story. Please tell me what you think

Is this an upscaled TR Megatron or a downscaled MP Prime?

Probably a down-scaled Prime. MP-10V would be your key word if your curious.

Uh thanks!

Should I be having this much fun with toys?


"It's over, Prime!"

Yes. Very yes.

carytheone wrote:Should I be having this much fun with toys?


"It's over, Prime!"

YES!

Fun > glass doors.

(Pic is a thumbnail BTW.)

Nice carytheone, gotta love those flight stand ports they been putting on the butts of Transformers figures for a few years now.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:...gotta love those flight stand ports they been putting on the butts of Transformers figures for a few years now...

I do , but Siege Prime's butt "3mm" port is too small. The one under the cab is true 3mm. I couldn't wedge one into Megs at that angle, but his appears to the be correct size.

I guess we know who's been getting screwed all these years

aw that's not good. :/


Ok one last pic from me tonight.

Unlike SS05 who has a huge black joint piece connecting his chest windows from their inner sides, SS32 has them connected on the outer sides and so technically can open them.



Ok goodnight.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:aw that's not good. :/


Ok one last pic from me tonight.

Unlike SS05 who has a huge black joint piece connecting his chest windows from their inner sides, SS32 has them connected on the outer sides and so technically can open them.



Ok goodnight.

Where's that Matrix from?

Battle Blades Optimus Prime (Well, technically the Takara "Revenge Optimus Prime" high-detail redeco from the AoE era but same mold).

Hello!

Long time browser of Seibertron, first time poster in the forums.

After seeing this thread on the news page, I knew I had to come on in.

So hello all! Look forward to posting here! (And if anyone knows of a better way to upload/host images, please let me know )

Thanks!

No, is not that Bee's vocal circuits are crushed , in this season the flu and the implicit problems are too common, not even Autobots are safe

I miss the maples...

Aw.
But yay for Cybertron Metroplex.

Ok guys our next step in the cybertronian help seminar is the trust exercise!

IronhideTFX wrote:After seeing this thread on the news page, I knew I had to come on in.

We got a conversion!

I'll leave it to one of the resident experts to help you out with the image hosting.

IronhideTFX wrote:Hello!

Long time browser of Seibertron, first time poster in the forums.

After seeing this thread on the news page, I knew I had to come on in.

So hello all! Look forward to posting here! (And if anyone knows of a better way to upload/host images, please let me know )

Thanks!

I recommend DeviantArt

Ah thanks for the tip!

I do have a few up on Flickr:

jeebus, i ain't even into g1 but those pics are amazing. i feel embarrassed to post any more of mine now. :O

Carnivius_Prime wrote:jeebus, i ain't even into g1 but those pics are amazing. i feel embarrassed to post any more of mine now. :O

Same here

@IronhideTFX Awesome pics, dude

Oh well I'mma post a few pics anyways even though they suck in comparison.

Fun flying kick pose (I copied from a pic of SS05 I saw online)



Determined battle walk I copied from PrimeVsPrime. Also in this pose I notice another big difference between this figure and SS05 in which SS05 wins, due to the changed transformation, the truck grill ends up lower on the back of SS32 and when turning the waist, the (also slightly relocated) upper wheels hit the grill. This doesn't happen on SS05 at all and he can turn his waist 360 degrees with no problem at all (the way I have his backpack set up). It's not a big deal and you can move the wheel out and around the grill when turning the waist on SS32 but it's just something I noticed.


Looks cool from the side too.

Awesome stuff IronhiheTFX!
Glad you've joined us!!

Flickr is a perfectly viable hosting method for photos on our forums. As long as you find a hosting site that can generate the proper BBC code for linking, you're all good.

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote: I feel embarrassed to post any more of mine now. :O

Same here

Awe, come on now guys. This thread is for everybody. No matter the skill level. And don't forget the part of the title "and Poses" Even if your photos aren't pro quality, if you have an AWESOME POSE (like the ones you just posted Carnivius) we want to see them!

There's been so much activity in here over the last couple days, I'm feeling inspired to set up my back drops and get back in to it.

Keep the pics and poses coming y'all!!

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Nexusrayne wrote:This is a little series I started a couple months back done in the vain of Toy Story. Please tell me what you think

Is this an upscaled TR Megatron or a downscaled MP Prime?

That would be the KO downscalled mp10 prime, perfect for CHUG scale

Nice pics, Carnivius! Especially the flying kick!

Here's one I did back in 2014 that I'm still fond of and I don't think I shared here:

I took it right after I'd obtained and fitted a left pec and foot for my ROTF Leader Optimus, who was missing said parts when I found him at the thrift store.

Thanks for the kind words, but do keep posting!

When I look back at some of my work, I always cringe a little cause I did this or that, it's all part of the game!
So lets have fun











Also probably worth mentioning, I'm a G1 fanatic, and a MP collector.

Thanks for nice comments.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Nice pics, Carnivius! Especially the flying kick!

Here's one I did back in 2014 that I'm still fond of and I don't think I shared here:

I took it right after I'd obtained and fitted a left pec and foot for my ROTF Leader Optimus, who was missing said parts when I found him at the thrift store.

This is nice.
Like the G1 folk helping fix up Movie Prime. Never seen Magnus being used like that before. :O



IronhideTFX how do you have these awesome skills? Are you in a visual effects kind of job?

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Thanks for nice comments.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Nice pics, Carnivius! Especially the flying kick!

Here's one I did back in 2014 that I'm still fond of and I don't think I shared here:

I took it right after I'd obtained and fitted a left pec and foot for my ROTF Leader Optimus, who was missing said parts when I found him at the thrift store.

This is nice.
Like the G1 folk helping fix up Movie Prime. Never seen Magnus being used like that before. :O



IronhideTFX how do you have these awesome skills? Are you in a visual effects kind of job?

Aw shucks.

Nah, all self taught. I used to sell cameras, then got one and wanted to really wanted to learn how to use it. And from there just absorbed Youtube tutorials for years. Followed heaps of toy photographers and studied equipment/techniques.
Ended up doing a distance learning photography degree.

Looking back on it, all of this was so I could take better Transformer photos! Haha I have been a fan since 1984!

Carnivius_Prime wrote:This is nice.
Like the G1 folk helping fix up Movie Prime. Never seen Magnus being used like that before. :O

Thanks.
Regarding that use of Magnus, it's the repair base mode from his Diaclone and Japanese instructions. Not quite as fancy as the one on Optimus, but putting the unloaded launchers on the ends of the large robot arms as repair beam projectors still works well enough.

IronhideTFX wrote:
Aw shucks.

Nah, all self taught. I used to sell cameras, then got one and wanted to really wanted to learn how to use it. And from there just absorbed Youtube tutorials for years. Followed heaps of toy photographers and studied equipment/techniques.
Ended up doing a distance learning photography degree.

Looking back on it, all of this was so I could take better Transformer photos! Haha I have been a fan since 1984!

Well damn. Yeah I been a fan since 1984 too (though bayformers are my thing these days, G1 hasn't really done it for me since I was a kid bar the odd figure here and there and I never liked the cartoon so I don't have the same nostalgia for MP figures going for toon accuracy) but yeah these images look amazing. I would like to take better photos myself but I haven't the time, money, equipment, intelligence and such. Hasbro should totally hire you to take promo pics. Hell, some of the folk they have doing stock photos often mistransform the darn things anyways.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Regarding that use of Magnus, it's the repair base mode from his Diaclone and Japanese instructions. Not quite as fancy as the one on Optimus, but putting the unloaded launchers on the ends of the large robot arms as repair beam projectors still works well enough.

I didn't know that. Guess Hasbro didn't care for it enough to put in the instructions for us. But then they also didn't bother putting instructions that show that the top part of Studio Series Jetfire (his head, upper back, arms) turns into a huge frickin' gun for Optimus to hold when wearing the rest of Jetfire as backpack and boots and that's like brand frickin' new.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I didn't know that. Guess Hasbro didn't care for it enough to put in the instructions for us. But then they also didn't bother putting instructions that show that the top part of Studio Series Jetfire (his head, upper back, arms) turns into a huge frickin' gun for Optimus to hold when wearing the rest of Jetfire as backpack and boots and that's like brand frickin' new.

Well, not entirely new. The old Jetpower combo also had a representation of the BFG:

Neither version's accurate, sadly - one's too small and one's too chunky.

But yeah, instructions have always been hit or miss on Hasbro's end. In the case of the repair base mode being omitted from Magnus' instructions, I think they left it out on purpose because it was a Diaclone holdover they had no regard for (while an annoying decision, there's at least thought involved there). Leaving out the BFG from the Studio Series Jetpower instructions... That's just plain sloppiness. Someone familiar with the movie would most likely be able to figure it out because they'd know there should be a BFG there, but it's still a dumb thing for Hasbro to do. I suggest writing to them with a complaint.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, not entirely new.

I meant the figures of Studio Series Jetfire and Optimus Prime are brand new. So Hasbro still hasn't learnt to provide full instructions.

But yeah, instructions have always been hit or miss on Hasbro's end. In the case of the repair base mode being omitted from Magnus' instructions, I think they left it out on purpose because it was a Diaclone holdover they had no regard for (while an annoying decision, there's at least thought involved there). Leaving out the BFG from the Studio Series Jetpower instructions... That's just plain sloppiness. Someone familiar with the movie would most likely be able to figure it out because they'd know there should be a BFG there, but it's still a dumb thing for Hasbro to do. I suggest writing to them with a complaint.

It's not even just that some people might wonder if they were supposed to come with a gun but the fact that Studio Jetfire comes apart to form Prime's upgrade (as is in the case in the film too, unlike the original figures where Jetfire doesn't come apart) and the person might be wondering why, after forming the jetpower Prime, they're left with a poor mutilated Jetfire crawling about with his arms missing the entire lower half of his body like a zombie victim or something. Oh well, thankfully we have the internet and forums like this and review vids on youtube to spread the word of features our action figures have that the company didn't bother telling us about.

Uh oh. Busy day tomorrow. I best try rest up and sleep. Keep the cool pics coming people. Byes.

Ka-boom!

Still playing catch up on a few older shots

Her name is Bierfa. It apparently translates to "Bear Law" Neat! She's from a toy line called Machine Change (which has it's own tv series made up of 10 minute episodes), by a company called Jia Qi. Don't know if I'll get the others in the toy line or not, but either way I'm slapping a Decepticon symbol on her and naming her something like Torsion, Drawbolt, Collet, Collateral, Gauge. Or do like Fearswoop and name her something like Frightlane (instead of freight lane). Or could just name her Bear.

Anyway, here she is and some official transformers to keep it kosher for the thread.

Nice pics!
Given what she did to Crosscut, she's in trouble if you ever get Road Rage.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Nice pics!
Given what she did to Crosscut, she's in trouble if you ever get Road Rage.

Way ahead of you!
EDIT: Background is Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos by JLIEN on pixiv.

Awesome.

Awful quality pic but I liked it. Will redo it anyways when Blackout's new hands arrive.



This one just cropped from a comparison pic of SS32 and Battle Blades/Revenge Optimus Prime. I just really like the way he's posing here. He's so cool.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Which paint did you use for the gunmetal grey?

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Which paint did you use for the gunmetal grey?

I've barely added any paint at moment. I just did the round things on the shoulder pads and then added a teeny bit on the toes and crotch cos I ran out. It's mostly just his natural colour at moment.

Paint was Tamiya Titanium Silver as it was cheapest one I could find locally and need to buy some more of cos I used a lot of it on RotF Megatron a while back. Need to buy some more red and blue too cos there's a lot of bits need correcting.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:Which paint did you use for the gunmetal grey?

I've barely added any paint at moment. I just did the round things on the shoulder pads and then added a teeny bit on the toes and crotch cos I ran out. It's mostly just his natural colour at moment.

Paint was Tamiya Titanium Silver as it was cheapest one I could find locally and need to buy some more of cos I used a lot of it on RotF Megatron a while back. Need to buy some more red and blue too cos there's a lot of bits need correcting.

I'd really like to see some more images of parts painted with that color and in a color neutral lighting. Have you already posted pics of your RotF Megs or could you do that, please?