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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 3:23 pm
by LD2062
Very nice. If only all of us were so lucky.
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:10 pm
by SentinelPrime
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:22 pm
by SentinelPrime
Here's the latest custom I am currently working on. I need some advice as to how to attach the new head I want for my
"Prehistoric Swoop" figure. I need the gray part below the original Swoop head to maintain the swivel up and down of new head. The new head is from a Dinozone Swoop-like figure. I like it b/c you split the beak and the robot head is revealed!
I'm either going to have to bore out the original Swoop face to fit the the new head or bore a bigger hole to have it fit over the original Swoop head. Also the new head has a nice big head crest..don't know whether to remove the original red Swoop crest. I think keeping it with the other crest will make it look weird.
Also as you can see the pics that the grey swivel section looks like the robot's neck is to long. Any suggestions as to how to fix that? I still like some painting and other little details..such as the arms, hands, tail section, and swivel neck section...but I do like the new paint color scheme. Question..should I paint the arms metallic gold or brown?
I have all the other Prehistoric G1 Dinobots..but they never made a G1 Prehistoic Swoop figure. SO I am creating one. the figure I'm using already had a broken off beak.
Sorry in advance if some of you think I've committed a sacrilage by "redesigning a original G1 Swoop! This was an extra one for parts I am restoring!
**Note...the robot head pics are with the new head just sitting on the body..it is NOT attached yet.

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:01 pm
by SentinelPrime
One of my next projects is to convert spare G1 Bruticus and G1 Defensor in thier Japanese counterparts
Battle Gaia and Guard City. They are from a short-lived Japanese comic book series called
"Transformers: Operation Combination." These figures are extremely hard to find...and when you do, they sell for $2000 to $3500 dollars! Crazy!
SO.....I am going to repaint an extra Bruticus and Defensor. Stay tuned!
Here's pics of the real ones I plan to reproduce via customizing:
Guard City:
Battle Gaia:

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:55 pm
by Time Traveller
Good luck! If you succeed, you save yourself thousands of $$'s trying to get the original sets!

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:26 pm
by SentinelPrime
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:02 pm
by Time Traveller
wow, that was quick! they look pretty decent. Any individual figure detailing we get to see? what'd you paint em with?
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:52 pm
by SentinelPrime
Nope! No individual bot pics! Mainly painted it to be left in combiner mode. Mainly used Krylon Spray Paint for Plastic and small touch paint brushes.