Decided to build myself a more "Skyfire" style back pack for classics Jetfire. Now he's ready to blast some Decepticons while studying the stars.

 

Critiques are of course welcome.

 

First some jetmode pics.

 

Tried to get a jet mode that was fairly close to the "Skyfire" look as seen in the toon. The pack uses the mounting block from Classics Jetfire as the base, then I mounted the cockpit of a SWTF Emperor Palpatine shuttle to the front, then added the tail wing assembly from a junker G1 Jetfire on top. Lots of putty, styrene, and epoxy filled gaps and evened things out. Then I mounted the booster parts from the Classic Jetfire fast packs to the back of the shuttle. Several layers of red Krylon Fusion and some detailing with acrylic silver and black finished him up.

 

You'll also that I moved his hand gun. I drilled a hole in the stomach area thats covered in bot mode and shaved down the sides of the gun to fit, then mounted it underneath the jet.

 

Now the bot mode.

 

The pack stays on for transformation, and thanks to some more silver detailing its got that strip on the underbelly of the shuttle pack. That Skyfire had. Its about the same weight as the fast pack that came with him so he's not back heavy or anything.

Shoulda kept the regular tailfins & wings attached for when the pack is removed IMO, but otherwise not bad :thumb

Without tailfins looks better in robot mode IMO. Doesn't look like a butterfly anymore :)

Without tailfins looks better in robot mode IMO. Doesn't look like a butterfly anymore :)

 

 

Yeah, but with the new backpack they'd fold straight back...

The tail wings pop on and off easily. I still have them and can put them back on anytime I like. I jsut prefer it without them in this mode.

Without tailfins looks better in robot mode IMO. Doesn't look like a butterfly anymore :)

 

 

Yeah, but with the new backpack they'd fold straight back...

 

 

Oh yeah, my bad :tftongue

btw, were you going to integrate the booster nozzles onto the new backpack? It's really about the only thing left it needs.

lol, yeah I jsut realized I left them off in the pic. If you look you can see the ball joints stick out the back of the shuttle for them to connect to. I gotta recharge the battery then take some pics with them on.

Nice. I've always like the Skyfire look better than the Robotech Jetfire look.

So can I just buy one and mail it to ya for the conversion? lol

 

Very damn cool