hi guys !!!

Well i,ve been talking for a while about the possibility of doing a metroplex !! 3 1/2 feet high to be exact and will transform into a city like you could,nt imagine !!! the robot will retain 95% of it,s g1 aspect and well the alt mode is where all the difference will be !!! i have very ambitious goals for this one and i hope to be able to fufill them !! also note that metroplex will be FULLY articulated and nothing will be neglected ....i will have questions for you guys later but for now i will leave you with this one ... what do you preffer ? the visor types eyes or the 2 eyes aspect... and also what color ? red or blue.... i have many options and i want to have everyone opinion on this one.... also note as well that is project will take about 6-7 months to complete with the current productions and other projects that i have !!

so without further interuption i give you metroplex marksprojects's style (ps remember it,s only in it,s infancy so there will be many changes):



so let,s hear your comments !!!

That's INSANE!

OH....MY....GOD

WOW!

The visor type eyes would be better.

Green visor eyes.

you are the man!!!

hold on, my eye fell out of my sockets

Oooh. Tell me you're going to cover this bad boy with heaps of scuplted details and the like.

hi guys !!

well this is a small update and as you can see i,ve concentrated on detailling the main command tower and it's really something !!! it's going where i want it to go and everything is on track.... amd ypu can ee how detailled this guy is going to be !!

also as a reference for scale, i,ve put hoc omega supreme beside for a small idea of how big this sucker is and yes it's modified as well lol

so i hope you like the updates !!

small update???

dude......

Woa.......nice

Fan..freakin..tastic!!

THAT IS COOL!

Wow! That looks great!

*Sniff* Thats beautiful man

Oh...my...god...

Dude, that's how Metroplex was always meant to be!

hi guys !!!

well a little bit more details and windows and symbol !! i'm trying to complete the main tower to give the beat for the rest of the city.... i want to build about 4 more major structures such as this one and 6-8 medium size towers and many small ones... it will have runways for shuttles, roads, nightlights... and many more suprises that i think you'll like !! oh and sounds of course...

I've taken the liberty of running this post through an Awesome-to-English translator that I have named Translacious D.



There you have it. Anemis must have the Pick of Destiny and is using it as a hellish muse to drive this inconceivably awesome custom.

just finished metroplex's center chest piece (the round thingy...) i've added a bit more details and refinements to it and it blends well with the rest of the building
as well

enjoy !

'Looking frelling awesome' doesn't even begin to describe how cool that is.

Am I correct in assuming that this Metroplex will be about the perfect size to use with WSTFs, Micromasters, and Minicons (representing full-sized Cybertronians, of course)?

NOICE!

well ... you could use wst of course but they would need to be smaller then that..... about a 1/4 of a wst.... i want it to be a city and less of a small complex.....

i,ve started building #2 ... very very early in the construction phase but coming along nicely... also put some prime's there for size reference !!

this is how building number 2 looks like after about 6 hours of work...this is only the lower part of the building and i'll be doing the top part tomorrow .... details are coming to me as i go !! (not always an easy thing !)

so here is the latest progress !!

Looking good.

Can't wait til it's finished

Those towers look awesome.

That owns. I'd totally buy it, somehow.

What would it run for you to make one of those for me? I am honestly willing to discuss price.

wow i have no idea at this point, but trust me it's going to be expensive.... just for glue at this point in the project is runnig at about 120.00 and that's not even counting the styrene sheets... and hours... i'm affraid that this project will be WAY to expensive for anyone's taste but i'll try eventually to have an estimate on that ....

well here is my almost daily update lol ...
now the second part of tower #2 is coming along great but is a bit tricky and you can easily screw it up ! also notice some of the add-on's that are on that tower ... this tower is now 9 hours worth of production man this thing is going to take time lol
the other tricky thing is to make sure that all building have unique caracteristics and at the same time blend perfectly with the rest.... this one has shall we say unique features .
so enjoy !!

Anemis,

I like your idea of Metroplex being the largest Autobot ever.

I especially am fond of the image of Metroplex from Generations that shows his truly colossal size.

Other transformers can move around inside his head.

I think he looks BEST with NON-visor eyes myself.

There is a picture of him from generations on the yahoo image search that I really like, and it is from Generations.

I always figured he should be about 1 km tall, and that his whole purpose was to be Autobot City, not just part of it, and that he would be bigger than Fortress Maximus, who is more of an ultimate warrior, but not supposed to also be the largest.

Besides, IMHO Metroplex looks cooler. I honestly like his design a lot better than Maxy's too, so maybe I am bias.

I always figured not all Transformers has size changing technology, Metroplex and Maximus would not, and because transformers can walk arund inside Metros head, and Maxy's is a regular transformer, then he should not be as big as Metroplex, not even close.

The cartoons never had a sense of scale, so I figure it would work the way it would make the best sense for this kind of fiction.

I also figured Unicron should be just slightly larger than Primus/Cybertron, as he is supposed to be an "over whelming odd". Like Primus is an ancient warrior who stands in the way of a gigantic demonic beast, now taken on the forms of mechanical planets.

Scale was never a big issue in the movie, or the regular series, so I just have to go with what I think would be cool. Its fiction any way.

ok guys i have a hell of an update !!

the pictures dont do justice to what i saw when i first illuminated part of this building.... the sight gave me goosebumps !!! and i FINALLY finished the damn floors and details !! here is the latest pictures... hope you like it !!

are those all supposed to be buildings inside that tower?!


and if so.. are they Human sized buildings or transformer sized buildings..

acutally they're desks, computers , table and everything else transformers uses... the problem is that each item are about 1/32 inch in size.. so doing details on them is a bit imposible.... and it's transformers scale.... you can see omega supreme as reference...

Just like to join in on the deluge of thoroughly merited praise. Keep at it.

ok, see I was thinking you were going for a TRULY massive massive metroplex and that on each of those layers in that tower was a whole city block of buildings..


but desks and stuff makes more sense.

Gorgeous.

By implication, you've just created something totally new: Transformer Salarymen.

Even giant alien robots can not escape The Cubical!

That is awesome man,


Since this your Metroplex for your own take on the G1 Universe; about how tall would you say he would be?

Using the metric system, if a Transformer Like Optimus is about 10 meters, or 33 feet tall, than how tall would metroplex stand (top of head height not including towers?).

I think it depends on how tall that optimus prime, the smallest one, you have in photos for refrence. Is he 1” or 0.5”?

So how tall would that make Metroplex? 1 kilometer?

a kilometer sounds about right actually... the figurine will be 4 feet tall and in metric system it's 1 meter ,20 cm high and thoses 2 measures dont take into account the 2 vertical towers (guns) on his shoulders..... so yeah this is a monster lol but i have the liberty to do whatever i want with it , and that's the beauty of it !!

early design for tower 3 !!

Damn, just......DAMN!!

Cool man, that is where about I peg him at.

My other question is; how tall is his head going to be? Going by the top of his head, not the "head cannons".

I am sure you already have it measured out.

I am just curious to know how many head lengths tall his body is.

Transformer head to body size is different than humans, and I wonder what metroplex's is.

I will go by the ratio for the figure you are making.

I love measurements and stats for transformers since the cartoon never showed consistent scale for these things.

well actually i can't tell you the measurement of the head since i still have'nt done it yet !! but needless to say that there is enought space to make a proportionate head ....
and i have actual progress of tower 3 after about an hour

I cant wait to build it!

My vote goes for two seperate blue color eyes. I could never stand the visor look.

Maybe I am too attached to the image of him I posted on this thread earlier. I cannot help liking it; it just looks good.

I always figured his head would be between 1/10th and 1/14th of his body.

Even if his head is on the smaller end ,at only 1/14th of his body, that would still give him an 71 meter head, that is asuming he is 1 km tall not including cannons.

this keeps getting better and better.

I am not gonna lie when I say I have never been impressed by your past projects, but this one definatly takes the cake. It's all kinds of sic. When it's all done I think this will be your mark on the world.

Hey man,

every one gets better with practice.

I cannot wait to see what this Metroplex looks like in Robot mode.

Should be pretty damn cool.

Dude, I just walked into this thread. I couldn't be more impressed at all.

Do you have an idea of where all the buildings are going on his body at the moment or are you just taking it as it comes?

some of it i already know and most of it as i go actually lol

Has nothing to do with getting better with practice. I just didn't dig what he did is all. Metroplex I do dig. very much so.

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Ohh, I see, it was not the quality you had a problem with, but the actual transformer being done itself?

Whatever the case, this Metroplex looks awsome, and I am sure it is going to look really cool when done.

I cannot wait to see it.

That is just insane! Good luck with this enormous project.

I wonder how many Micromasters/Minicons can fit in the final product...