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My Alt Camshaft


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I just joined TFans recently and I've been popping around reading alot of posts and such, mainly about Alts cause Alts are what got me back in to collecting Transformers (I've got them all except Rollbar and Ricochet, damn I love alts!)--although I'm thinking about getting in to these Movie figs cause some of them are really starting to grow on me (I am by no means a G1-purist, I grew up mostly with Beast Wars mind you--and I love them shut up). In any case, I've always thought my Alt Camshaft was very drab, I love the mold, but Prowl's colors are much better for it (specifically the wide, empty chest/hood), so I decided (after much topic-surfing and reading up about kitbashing and modding) to take a stab at making my Camshaft look better--personally, I think it didn't turn out too bad.

 

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First I took Smuggles' Alt Camshaft head mod and tried to make it my own. I decided to give him a face plate (as I had some styrene lying around from an earlier attempt at bashing something else) and paint it black and silver (the only paints I had with me) to differentiate him. As it turns out, I accidentally made his head pretty G1--go figure. I do notice the gold peeking out on his "crest" (it's his original chin by the way), and have already fixed it, but I'm too lazy to take the head off again and take new pictures.

 

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I also mimicked Frenzy's Alt Wildrider, however, not much could be done about that as I had been planning on "rice-ing" up Camshaft (ever since Reprolabels released the Camshaft decals) and Frenzy beat me to it (I did ask him how he painted his windows cause they are beautiful, quite frankly)--I did keep mine as Camshaft though. I added some slight paint apps, as well as the obvious leg mod and scissor-door mod. I also had to paint the area directly behind the head because the black head was blending in the the black plastic, a steady hand and some steel-colored paint remedied that. I also painted the handle of his nightstick silver (I painted Prowl's black at the same time).

 

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Here is a pic of his Alt mode. Obviously I used the standard Reprolabels Camshaft set, I think they work wonderfully with the blue windows. I like the very cluttered ricer look and even though I am one of those that demand my Alternators be as realistic as possible, I think Camshaft fits right in with Alt Dragstrip--er, Decepticharge--maybe Camshaft is hunting Dragstrip down on the same ricer circuit?

 

I've got a few more pictures to post just for fun. I'd love to hear some feedback on my first bash/mod/thing. I've already got another repaint lined up in my head and as soon as my second Alt Ravage comes in the mail I'm going to start!

 

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Here are a couple good shots of the scissor doors.

 

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And struggling against Alt Ravage... I didn't realize how big Ravage/small Camshaft was until I put him right up next to Camshaft.

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man thats awesome, i havent had the time or funsing lately to kitbash my alts, but im heading down a similar route to yourself with the rice-rockets,

 

can i ask what your doing with your second ravage, i have an idea what i want to do with mine but im curious about yours..

 

awsome work, keep it up and welcome aboard

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That IS awesome! How'd you get the doors to scissor?

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whoa,..I DID the same NIKE-wings thing to my alt Camshaft's head:

 

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Great job on the blue windows!

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can i ask what your doing with your second ravage, i have an idea what i want to do with mine but im curious about yours..

 

Right now I want to keep it a secret cause I think it's a pretty new and different idea--so sorry, no Steel Jaw (though I wouldn't mind a Hasbro repaint as him). But I will tell you that I'm going to have the body be British racing green, after all, all British coupes should be British racing Green

 

That IS awesome! How'd you get the doors to scissor?

 

If this link doesn't work: Scissor Doors then just type Prowl Lambo Doors into the search and it should pop up.

 

whoa,..I DID the same NIKE-wings thing to my alt Camshaft's head

 

Yeah, I said that I copied your idea and expanded upon it a bit (face plate and paint) so that I wasn't entirely ripping you off :thumb Hell, if I hadn't seen your mod and thought "well that looks cool and easy" I wouldn't have tried doing anything at all! So thanks!

 

And thanks for all the compliments everybody!

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This is AWESOME!!!!!! The blue windows look UN-credible. I assume you used a brush to do your windows too? Nice work with the stickers and doors. AND THE HEAD!!!! wow. Nicely done. I'm happy my Wildrider inspired even a small part of this.

 

And I don't mean this as a backhanded complement, but GOOD JOB making those crappy hood stickers look nice. They didn't work with my Wildrider at all, so I left them off, but they look great with all the blue on your Camshaft.

 

and finally, because it must be said, for shame, Hasbro. See what could have been? FOR SHAME.

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Wow, I was not going to buy a Camshaft until I saw this figure. Camshaft was my first Transformer and I didn't like that he was just a repainted Prowl. I'm going to have to get one now so I can do it up like yours. How did you do the scissor doors and the blue windows? I looked but I couldn't find out how. Great job!

 

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Welcome Archer and thanks for the comments!

 

I used a wide, soft brush and Tamiya clear blue paint for the windows. It works really well (which is good cause I've learned I suck with spray paint).

 

and here is the link to the scissor-door mod: http://www.TFans.com/talk/index.php?showto...owl+lambo+doors

 

If that doesn't work, I'll just open up one of Camshaft's doors and take a picture for you, it's really really easy to do.

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