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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

"Fan-specs"

Schwartz, Eric entered in the art contest some "Fan-specs" which were very impressive. Check out the new stories for Jetstorm, Stinkbomb, and G2 Optimus Prime

Beast Wars Megatron and Optimal Optimus

samfulton@coastnet.com sent me 2 awesome pics of an original Megatron & Optimal Optimus that he altered. It's about time someone altered that Op Op robot mode!

Perceptor

Resor, Mike Altered Perceptor's favorite G1 character, Perceptor!

Various Beast Machines Alterations

Razortank e-mailed me his BM Tarantualas, & other new characters Havoc & Thunderbolt.

Various G1 Movie Alterations

RANDMACNALLY made some great G1 alts including a model of the Ark! Ark1, Ark2, Galvatron, Hotrod1, Hotrod2, Megatron1, Meg2

Tigerhawk

Quach, Daniel altered his Tigerhawk, looks pretty sweet!

Rhinox

Proudwolf sent me a picture of the altered Rhinox he did.

BW Megatron and Inferno Alts

OsirisPrime awesome alts include: TM2 Megs, Inferno1, Inferno2, Inferno3, Inferno4, Inferno5.

Various Alterations

Optimal Megatron sent me a compilation of his alts w/ text explanation w/ Pics! sa-weet!

TM2 Quixtrike

Ob1kenoby@aol.com sent me a pic of his TM 2 Quickstrike

G1 Jazz

Nichols, Jeffery fixed Classic Pretender Jazz, a toy which badly needed alterin'!

Beast Machines Jetstorm

NEVERDOCHORES altered his Deluxe Jetstorm! check it out HERE!

Various Alterations

Moore, Vernon made nice alterations: and new the Predacons, Ravage, Arcee, Op Primal, Starscream, & UNICRON!

G1 Optimus Prime's Death

Lucas, Ricky WOW! That's all I can say! His death of Optimus Prime is AMAZING!

Beast Wars Alterations

Love, Jarred e-mailed me a few pics of his altered TM Megatron, Rampage, (another pic of) RAMPAGE TM Tarantulas, & Optimus Primal! Enjoy!

G1 Lego Creations

Lespineira sent some cool pix of Lego "alts:" Constructicons, Devastator2, 3, D tapes, A tapes

Beast Wars Inferno

Laine from Australia made a very nice Inferno Custom. Check it!

Beast Machines Optimus Primal and God Optimus

Kin, Leong Chee altered his BMach Optimus Primal & created God Optimus! Enjoy!

Beast Wars TM Rattrap, and TM2 Megatron

KewlGuy/Ched altered his TM2 Meg and TM RATTRAP. Check it out!

Comet Prime

kraken@unicron.com has been VERY busy, (helping us design parts for our Unicron.com accessory packs). For now you see his own created character Comet Prime Pic 1 Pic 2

KIDkoRRuPt's Custom site

KIDkoRRuPt's Custom G1 Car Transformers Check it out! Now including G1 skyfire and other sweet G1 car customs

Beast Machines Blackarachnia, Nightscream, and Savage Noble

Johnson, Mat BMach Alts: Blackarachnia Pic1, Pic2, Night Scream Pic1, Pic2, Savage Noble Pic1, Pic2

Swords, Alts and Creations

Hillo, Benny e-mailed me some cool pics of his creations such as Prime holding matrix, an autobot sword of leadership, Optimal Prime, Prime's 2 Swords, the sword of Primus, as well a Unicron alt he made which does transform, Optimal Prime, "a little bit o cybertron!" and the Autobot Matrixes of Leadership, he made!

G1 Alterations

goktimus@lycos.com has his own alterations page. Check it out!

Beast Wars Ravage

Furiato, Tony sent me a picture of his Beast Wars Ravage figure.

Beast Machines and G1 Lego Creations

Espineira, Louis created some fun alterations w/ LEGOS! Pic 1, Pic 2

Beast Machines Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, and Blackarachnia

Doubledealer22@aol.com made his own Beast Machines Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Beast Machines Rattrap, Beast Machines Blackarachnia. Hold on to your jaw because mine hit the floor! Outstanding work!

King Grimlock

Desperado00 created his own "King Grimlock!" in bot mode & beast mode!

Lil Soundwave, and "Mewtor"

Brian Doyle sent pics of alts a friend of his made: "Lil Soundwave" & Poke-machines Meowth Cheetor: "Mewtor!"

Beast Machines Silverbolt

DefiantBW@unicron.com a 3-D artist created his own Beast Machines Silverbolt. Awesome!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Dinobot and Rhinox

crwalker@lamere.net sent pics of his Dinobot/Rhinox & his own often updated Alt Page.

Beast Machines Megatron

Chan, Chris made a Beast Machines Megatron Pic1, Pic 2. (looks better than Hasbro's! :)

Beast Machine Fuzor: Airstrike

Chaimovitz, Josh created his own Beast Machine Fuzor: Airstrike

Beast Machines Silverbolt

Casas, Jason made a very cool alteration of Silverbolt (Pic 1 Pic2) from among other things a Night Slash Cheetor; very interesting!

Beast Machines Optimus

Cardboardmidget created an awesome Beast Machines Optimus Primal (beast mode)

Rhinox-Trion's BWTF Alterations

DaClique (/Rhinox-Trion) has been busy! Check out his other alterations: Transmutate, Cyber-Raptor, Optimal Optimus, Rampage, Transmetal Tarantulas, Blackarachnia.

Beast Machines

Cannon, Charles was attending the show said "hi!" He showed me some of his latest very well made alterations: Here you'll see: him with the alts he brought, Botanica1!, Botanica2, BMach Megatron, Optimus...

TM2 Megatron

bwbalint@rica.net sent me a pic of his altered TM2 Megatron.

UNICRON

Bladewing built a small but sweet UNICRON from a gundam RX-78-NT1 action figure!

Various Beast Machines Alterations

BHens14@aol.com has made some great kitbashes of Beast Machines characters: Jetstorm, Night Scream, Silverbolt, Tankor, Thrust, & TM2 Megatron.

Armada MEGATRON

What's the biggest complaint everyone has about Armada Megatron? His totally unposable legs. Well, Jason fixed that... The joints that were used were the knee and swivle joint attached to the upper leg from Tigatron, the lower leg portion of the knee and the sockets for the hips are from DepthCharge, and the balls for the sockets are from Rampage. This alteration was the impetus for one of our many ideas for possible Unicron.com accessory packs that never came to fruition. The difference with this idea, is that final 3D models, and even one round of resin prototypes were produced. We decided last minute to can the production of this accessory pack due to timing, perceived interest, and the relatively high production cost involved. Check our our short homage to the Unicron.com Armada Megatron Leg Kit that never was (or ever will be).

TIGERHAWK

Tigerhawk's biggest change is to the tiger 'brow making it a smooth, steel-colored piece & above it a hair-textured look. I colored bot/beast eyes to match the post- vok-possesed' look of show & added subtle accents to bot's teeth & steel 'lines' to make 'em stand out.

Transmetal 2 MEGATRON

In addition to Perceptor resculpted Megatron's face, & giving the wings an all orange look like the show, I 'altered' the dragon neck so it stays in the position you put it in. Click HERE to learn how I did what I did.

Transmetal 2 DINOBOT

Perceptor started altering TM2 Dinobot by doing some minor face resculpting/painting. The only major change was given to each hand, making the slasher claw/fore-finger a separage joint from the thumb (which can articulate). Click the link to see How to alter your own TM2 Dinobot!

CYBER-RAPTOR

To make the Cyber-Raptor Perceptor started with a Jurassic Park velociraptor toy, he added cyber components & sculpted them to look like it does in the show. He used light gray and white spray paint & hand painted the cyber parts w/ light blue/chrome paint.

BEAST WARS RAVAGE

Perceptor made Ravage starting w/ a TM Cheetor (Hey, that's what Mainframe used!) The arms are from an original Cybershark and I re-molded an original Tigatron beast head to make Ravage's. The chest was sculpted almost entirely from scratch.

TRANSMUTATE

Perceptor made Transmutate cutting and blending various parts from several different toys including a Manga Curse, a Tigatron, an Aliens figure, and a "Meched-Out Gargoyles". Certain parts like the face and hand were made/sculpted from scratch.

Transmetal CHEETOR

Transmetal Cheetor was sooo close to the show, yet just a little off in robot mode. Never fear, he was a perfect candidate for Alteration treatment! You know that gnarly grin they gave him? Yea, we didn't like it either! I also fixed the coloring of the face and chest plate. by: Jason

TRANSMETAL MEGATRON

I resculpted Megatron's face to give it sharp pointy things & re- molded the shark-tooth grin to make it look like it does in the show. The brown plastic was easily turned black with a permanent marker. I highly recommend doing this folks, it's easy and it makes a huge difference. by: Perceptor

SKYSHADOW

I always thought they should have had Skyshadow in the show rather than Quickstrike but hey that's just me! Skyshadow is a great toy, made better with a few minor improvements to the faces of robot and beast. by: Perceptor