Planning a Custom Botcon Pyro Head

[kup]

This is a Proof of Concept before making a proper Pyro head for Botcon Spark out of that awful 'Why so Serious' (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/other-news-20/tcp-001a-custom-city-commander-parts-released-166803/) City Commander head which can change to a Prime face. The idea came from Lord_Zed after he saw the crappy head and I mentioned that I didn't know what to do with it as it was too crap.

Controls:

Character Models:

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/f/f2/LastStandoftheWreckers4-blazeofglory.jpg

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/thumb/9/90/PyroSpark-packagingart.jpg/350px-PyroSpark-packagingart.jpg

Head without any changes so it's a real photo without digibash

http://kupscigar.com/fun/pyrokitbash.JPG

Concept 1:

Head with Antennas shorten (for transformation) and Pyro face plate ridges - Should look better once done in Real life. The simplest kitbash.

http://kupscigar.com/fun/pyrokitbash1.JPG

Concept 2:

Painted purple head like the Botcon toy and sharpened antennas and altered face plate (flat front like LSOTW Pyro)

http://kupscigar.com/fun/pyrokitbash2.JPG

Concept 3:

Same as above but with red eyes.

http://kupscigar.com/fun/pyrokitbash3.JPG

What do you guys think? I am leaning more towards Concept 1 but I am not sure yet.

Edit: Having a proper look, the digibashes suck too much to be good examples. They are not very good for demonstrating the concepts :(

[Deonasis]

Kup, if I had to choose I'd pick concept 2. The flattened mouth plate looks similar but different to Optimus' which I like. I really don't like the antennae though could they be replaced?

[Golden Phoenix]

Concept 2, but with concept 1 colours I think

[Sleeve]

Concept 2, but with concept 1 colours I think

+1

Exactly what I was going to say.

[kup]

Concept 2, but with concept 1 colours I think

Yeah I am beginning to to lean towards that concept too. I will probably need to sand the faceplate flat and then use some putty to make it work.

[GoktimusPrime]

I'd go for pink eyes. :)

[LordCyrusOmega]

Concept 2 is nice, better then 1. I like the idea of pink eyes but the picture doesn't do it justice. Maybe smaller pink eyes or a pink 'band' eye like grimlock

[kup]

Thanks for your suggestions.

I have already begun to work on it based on a mixture of Concept 1 & 2 (Blue helmet, flat face plate with ridges). So far it's turning out better than I thought but there is still a lot of work ahead. Re-shaping the Antennas was super hard but sanding the face plate flat was relatively easy. I can predict however that adding the ridges will be a challenge. I also have to adapt the head to the ball socket of the base toy - That has proven hard but I think that I have thought of a way to do it.

[kup]

Progress so far:

http://kupscigar.com/fun/pyrohead.JPG

[1AZRAEL1]

Looking good so far. Look forward to the finished product.

[kup]

Looking good so far. Look forward to the finished product.

Thanks :) after I took the pic I straightened the plate ridges a bit. Sometimes you don't notice things until you see it in photos.

We'll see how it goes when it dries. Any other suggestions on making it more Pyro like? As you can see, I am going by the LSOTW Pyro head as seen in the comic pic above.

[kup]

I completed my Pyro head and added a gun.

http://kupscigar.com/fun/pyro1.JPG

http://kupscigar.com/fun/pyro2.JPG

http://kupscigar.com/fun/pyro3.JPG

http://kupscigar.com/fun/pyro4.JPG

[1AZRAEL1]

Very cool. Looks alot better than the head you get with the figure. Good job I say.

[kup]

Very cool. Looks alot better than the head you get with the figure. Good job I say.

Thank you :)

I was going for a hybrid of the Wreckers character model and the original toy head as the Botcon toy is considerably different to both.

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/f/f2/LastStandoftheWreckers4-blazeofglory.jpg

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/thumb/9/90/PyroSpark-packagingart.jpg/350px-PyroSpark-packagingart.jpg

[Hursticon]

:eek: A Massive!, Massive! improvement Kup, well done mate! :D

[LordCyrusOmega]

A really impressive job Kup!

As an after thought have you considered changing the blue on the arms and elsewhere to be more in line with the head now?

[kup]

A really impressive job Kup!

As an after thought have you considered changing the blue on the arms and elsewhere to be more in line with the head now?

Thanks for your suggestion but I am not modifying the base toy since it is an expensive Botcon Exclusive :) A head swap is something that can be done without modifying the mold in any way and fully reversible.

Also the hands are purple its just that the flash makes it look bluer but still a different shade than the helmet.

[LordCyrusOmega]

yeah...I probably should hae thought about that before suggestion.

Anyway it's a really incredible piece of work