Custom: Turbomaster Boss

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28th January 2011, 05:54 PM
snaketales

Custom: Turbomaster Boss

The camera is really flattering for the windshield paint. In person there are streaks in it. It's probably because I used "spray and mark" paint, which the can says is great for marking concrete, but it was the closest colour to the original Boss to my eyes.

Made from a Blurr, obviously. I had thought of doing something different to the legs, but I decided to save it for my Nightbeat custom (which will be done in a couple of months :rolleyes:)

The head was from the Megatron vs Optimus Ultimate Battle two-pack.

Hardest part was explaining its name to the kids. "He's called Boss". "Is that because he's the boss?" "No" "Why is he called Boss then?" "Uhhhh....."

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28th January 2011, 06:01 PM
1AZRAEL1

Wow that is sweet man. Nice use of the mold.
28th January 2011, 06:08 PM
Lint

Looks awesome snakey, can't wait till you splash some boss blue on him. His current colour scheme could even pass for Hurricane :D
28th January 2011, 06:08 PM
Hursticon

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1

Wow that is sweet man. Nice use of the mold.

100% Agree with 1AZRAEL1! :eek:
That looks absolutely awesome Snakey! :D, well done man! ;) - Any others in the pipeline?
28th January 2011, 11:41 PM
fatbot

Very nice
6th February 2011, 11:49 PM
Deonasis

Sweet! It really pops in robot mode. :)
7th February 2011, 09:51 PM
GoktimusPrime

Any reason why the car mode colours look like Hurricane? The robot mode itself does look Boss-like (cept for the Hurricane-coloured kibble)

Quote:

Originally Posted by snaketales

Hardest part was explaining its name to the kids. "He's called Boss". "Is that because he's the boss?" "No" "Why is he called Boss then?" "Uhhhh....."

While Boss' function is Force Leader, Thunder Clash's function is Commander In Chief, which outranks him (even though both their ranks are 10... best not to bring that up :p)

As a Force Leader Boss is like the leader of a team - so he's like a Captain. Whereas Commander In Chief commands the entire military. For example, the Commander In Chief of the United States military forces is this dude, and according to the Australian Constitution, our Commander In Chief is, no not her... her! :)
8th February 2011, 01:32 PM
i_amtrunks

Blurr almost makes for a straight up Boss, great colour matching for the windows, and I like the copper/bronze colour you have used as a highlight, much better than the old yellow stickers on Boss!
8th February 2011, 11:29 PM
snaketales

Any reason why the car mode colours look like Hurricane? The robot mode itself does look Boss-like (cept for the Hurricane-coloured kibble)

Yeah - cos I thought they looked like Boss'.:p

I had no idea who Hurricane was until I looked him up after your post. To me Hurricane's car mode looks predominantly white, while my version of Boss is predominantly pale blue in car mode. It may not show up well in the images.

As with most things I found several variations of colour design for Boss so I went for the one that I felt looked best.
9th April 2011, 03:01 PM
Joey Santana

Very cool!
I like the concept.
10th April 2011, 09:55 PM
LordCyrusOmega

Love the Boss toy, Love your custom.
Thought about doing all the Turbomasters?
11th April 2011, 12:39 PM
snaketales

I've thought about it but not much more than that.

I have seen someone do something interesting with Boss' bonnet gun/cannon, so am thinking of that at the moment.
12th April 2011, 01:52 AM
kristofferrer

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1

Wow that is sweet man. Nice use of the mold.

hey i agree -
i never thought i'd say it, but this maes me like the colour scheme on a turbomaster.

nice job.