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Classics Bumblebee, Starscream, and Grimlock mods!


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I decided to just make a new topic for this, since it went a tad beyond just painting his eyes clear blue. :P

 

First, alt-mode!

 

I really didn't care for the metallic-white paint they put on him, so that's gone, and I added black accents. I also painted the headlight wells silver.

 

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Yet again, Hasbro molds pieces in clear plastic, then paints them; in this case, BB's tail lights. They're the same clear plastic as the windows, but for whatever reason, they were painted opaque red. I cleaned that paint off, painted the wells silver and the lights clear red.

 

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Behold, teh shiny new side mirrors!

 

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I'm gonna print up a license plate for him later; I'm thinking something like "BMBL B".

 

Next post: bot-mode!

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And here's bot-mode!

 

 

I've given him a proper Autobot symbol on his chest, and relocated the rub-sign to the inside of his roof.

 

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And here, again, Hasbro molded his eyes in clear plastic, but didn't do anything with that. I've painted them clear blue and installed my own light-pipe into the back of his head. (I'll add a couple pics of the inside later.)

 

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As a bonus, here are a couple pics of my modded Waverunner! I sanded the sides of the top-half's nose narrow, and the point below the nubs that lock it into the bottom-half, so it's hinged and can swing up. I'm trying to come up with a simple way to turn the water-ski into a weapon that he can hold now. :)

 

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And there you have it. :D

 

This light-piping project has given me ideas for adding piping to both my Super Starscream project and my Classics Starscream (though the latter is gonna be a little tougher, since the head is a single piece)!

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BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

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(the white bits on the black tape are debris from drilling and sanding and cutting--it's a piece of tape I was using to test the light-piping I was installing in Bumblebee's head, and discarded on the table top)

 

 

 

Once again, I'm using a bit of sprue from the clear-parts tree from of my model kits. I cut Starscream's head in half at the visible seam line (I'm gonna have to pad it out when I put the head back together, 'cause I ended up cutting a 1/16" space between the halves), then used a combination of my smallest precision flat-head screwdriver, a hammer, and a cylindrical engraving/shaping bit in my rotary-tool to cut out his old eyes and the triangular space behind them.

 

I dipped the new eye piece in a bottle of clear red model paint and brushed off the excess with a small paintbrush, dabbing the brush dry on a piece of newspaper, until the eye piece was coated nice and even.

 

I heated up the end of the remaining sprue and smashed it with needle-nose pliers.

 

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I think all that's left is to finish fitting the light-pipe to the space I cut, then put the head back together and repaint.

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