Frankensteined up some of my figures + csp magic to make these. I'm seriously thinking about customizing some 🤔 I also wanna make Fortress Maximus with Tarn and Magnus' pieces...
Chromedomes chest would also be all that red-ish pink and I'd probably use a different helm for his head too 🤔 I thought Slag's would work, but I think it's too square.
You can also pretty much make Headmasters Chromedome with Scrapper too >:)
Disappeared for awhile been a month of migraines anyway I finished another seeker kit. Fully custom re painted Thundercracker. He was originally an acid storm model. I didn’t add lots of bio lights like I did with Skywarp. I couldn’t decide on color for his bio lights so he has none. The colors are custom mixed of paint I salvaged from estate sales so I can’t really tell you what they are. Other than acrylic.
A few months back I got the TLK Optimus model from Yolopark because I needed it for anatomical reference for when I draw him.
But the issue I'm having is that the upper torso doesn't seem to fit as snug as it's supposed to--and from what I've seen, other people don't seem to have this issue.
and if I tilt him back even slightly--
Like I said, from what I've seen, other people don't appear to have this same issue. Did I put it together wrong or did I just get a dud?
This is the yolopark Shockwave (bumblebee movie) model. I've always discouraged myself from getting characters/models because I'd end up "taking a shrine too far" in a shrine sort of way. But, yknow what? Lighting the Shockwave candle every evening when I get home from work has been a delight.
This is the largest modelkit I've ever done. The only "big" modelkit I've ever done. Dozens of Warhammer minis could not have prepared my hands for the joint inflammation Shockwave would bring me over the course of ~7 days.
More info below the cut, including process pics and a boob blindspot calculation.
44 sprues, 800+ pieces, about 26 hours of my time, some hands, a bit of teeth, dozens of breaks...
The head was the easiest bit, the smallest bit, and effectively the learning curve. It was nice. The body, immediately afterwards, was hell. That was a seven hour long ADHD hyperfocus session that destroyed my hands.
The gun arm was not that bad, honestly. But lots of moving parts. His joints aren't just straightforward easy-peasy joints. They're more like 3-4 joints that actually change his position while shifting armour plates out of the way.
And his hand...
This is the most beautiful and delicate hand I've ever held. I cannot explain the warmth I felt holding his tiny little (definitely plastic) metal hand for this image. The fingers have full range of motion, his thumb is opposable, it's genuinely just...his hand is absolutely darling.
The warmth was probably joint inflammation.
His legs were about half of the instruction booklet. A good twenty pages per leg. But, the range of motion is incredible. That said, this was the most frustrating part of the build. Two segments of his armour (one on thigh, one on calf) are attached with the help of a spring so they can shift when bending the knee.
Here he is at the end! 2 liter lemonade bottle for scale.
He's about 30cm tall, but a little shorter when actually standing due to his funky centre of gravity. His dense chest and the gun arm make him to-and-to-the-side heavy. He needs to bend his legs a little and brace his gun arm to stand upright, and feels quite unstable. That's in part why I've decided he gets to spend his time sat down. A light breeze could land him tits down on the ground and broken in dozens of pieces.
Anyway, I had to calculate the blindspot. Boobwave my beloved.
This Shockwave is about 1/60 scale. So a full-sized Shockwave would be about 18 meters tall. He's a big boy.
I took this image with the camera about 3cm (so, 180cm at full size, my height roughly!) off the ground.
His head fully vanished at a 25cm distance from under his torso. That's 15 meters from a sitting position. Shockwave's blindspot is so pronounced that the can't see anything on the ground nearly his entire height away.
