I had forgotten that thing existed. Like most of PCC after wave one
The Repaint Concept Thread
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He's an Earthrise Hoist/Trailbreaker retool -- if the neck joint is the same, those should work at least.
I don't have this (yet?) so I can't check. I am very tempted by the fact that he seems to have opaque plastic rather than clear. Plus some neat accessories.
I don't have this (yet?) so I can't check. I am very tempted by the fact that he seems to have opaque plastic rather than clear. Plus some neat accessories.
Archer likely didnt think that it mattered.
With that teal I think he's more of a loose Nemesis Prime homage (though making the windows red would've really sealed it).
I agree with LGI that I bet they were planning on doing a Motormaster homage from him, then decided to use the F-1 racer (Leadfoot) as the torso mold in the Stunticon set, so Huffer had to get redecoed into someone else.
Same with how Armada Wheeljack's head looked so much like G1 Sideswipe and yet it took Fun Pub to finally make that connection a reality.
Most of them are pretty interchangeable, with the only thing tying them to specific guys being my thought process. (In fact, IIRC Steamhammer's gun doesn't work very well for him--the handle being so far forward is a bad match for his short little forearms.) But I managed to find reference photos for two out of three sets, so:
This one's helpfully labeled, probably the exact image I put on Shapeways. Two of them have mold-specific features because they're for guys who don't have 5mm hands: Sledge's 5mm ports are on the undersides of his forearms, so I gave his gun the triangular feature that fits into his molded hands as a "handle," and Icepick doesn't actually have 5mm ports at all, so his gun has tabs on the sides that fit into various slots in the vicinity of his hands. (I think the vertical ones at the back fit into the slots on the backs of his wrist balljoints, and the horizontal ones further up can jam into the backs of his "fingers," but I don't have immediate physical access to an Icepick toy to confirm this.)
This one isn't labeled, but I remember what goes with who:
- Upper left: Skyburst
- Upper right: Bombshock
- Middle left: Mudslinger
- Middle right: Double Clutch
- Lower left: Grimstone
- Lower right: Steamhammer
The only one here with any mold-specific features is Double Clutch's. DC's another guy with weird hands and I didn't like the look of anything I could come up with that involved actually using them, so I gave his gun smaller pegs on the sides (I think they're 3mm?) so it could mount on the outside of his forearm using a peghole meant for his torso mode. As a pleasant side effect, it's also one of the few that can be used in vehicle mode, something I basically didn't take into consideration at all with any of these and you'd better believe I felt silly about it later.
So that just leaves the ones for the single-pack Autobots, which I don't have a photo for and I don't have any of them in arm's reach but I'll try to describe them as I remember them:
- Huffer's should be the easiest to pick out because nobody else can hold his. PCC Huffer is yet another guy with nonstandard hands, but in his case he has perfectly usable hands that are just a nonstandard size, so I gave his gun a slightly smaller peg to match. (He can actually share weapons with a couple of other random guys. The one I can remember offhand is Classics Mirage.)
- Searchlight's gun is supposed to look like T30 Blaze Master, because his United EX redeco Chopper Master is Blaze Master and I am very silly.
- Leadfoot's gun is very cylindrical, has a ring around it near the end like Undertow's (they're both referencing Rotor Force), and I'm pretty sure it had multiple 5mm pegs since he has yet another weird hand situation.
- Heavytread... honestly I don't remember what I did for him at all, other than that I probably tried to make it vaguely Combaticon-esque, but I'm pretty sure at this point you can identify it by process of elimination.
It's a pretty epic sword, why should Starscream be the only one to have fun with it?
I mean, it's not "they," it's me.
All of the weapons have some kind of "I'll do this because of this tangential connection" reasoning behind them--Bombshock has a gun based on Onslaughts's, Mudslinger gets a mashup of Hound and Wreck-Gar's guns (because his United EX recolor was Detritus), stuff like that--and as per the comment that got us onto this subject in the first place, Skyhammer reminds me a lot of Armada Starscream.
Yup, that's the one from this batch that really stands out.
Jazzjumper makes me antsy for them to get around to the Throttlebots.
Jazzjumper makes me antsy for them to get around to the Throttlebots.
Wonderful set. Mini-me Jazz is adorable.
That JazzJumper reminds me of something, like a certain rendition of Jazz from somewhere, but I can't quite place what or where...
I love it, though!
I love it, though!