TR Horri-Bull, Fangry and Squeezeplay WIP thread

[Starscream77]

Really looking forward to seeing these progress, I smell some awesome customs

[Lint]

lovin it, you've done well with the head

[gamblor916]

Looking good!

[M-bot]

'Bout time I did an update!

First coat of paint laid down on Terri-Bull, including a fluoro pink that is pretty bold. The blue and the grey are custom mixed lacquers by SMS.




Partial reassembly. I couldn't fully reassemble due to issues with the shoulder pieces that I cast in resin (I'll go into more detail later). You can see the gun/tail here too, which I created using Twinferno's gun (he wasn't going to be using it as Squeezeplay), with some styrene "wings" to better mimic the G1 toy.


At this point, I also attempt the movements necessary for transformation to see where the rub points are. There are quite a few.




I sand these pieces down and repaint them later, then reassemble and retest for clearances.

More of the gun/tail. I cast a new central peg with a flat plate out of resin and attached it to the underside so he can hold it as a gun properly when in robot mode, and carved out a peg hole in the rear of the alt-mode butt for it to sit in. It's a smidge clunky looking, but no worse than the G1 toy was.






On to Squeezeplay! After a bit of back-and-forward with the commissioner of these pieces, we decided on this configuration from the Twinferno mould:


We decided that it wasn't possible to do a slavish copy of the original, but it was just going to be a representation of the character, with some liberties taken. I carved off Twinferno's horns dragon and de-winged him. I also cast a head (in purple) from an RID Quillfire to act as the monster/alt-mode head. It will stick on the back of the titan master legs, and he can rotate his head around for monster mode and robot mode.


Here's the first coat of paint down. Very few rub points to be concerned about as the robot and monster modes are very similar configurations.


Here's the work so far on Fangry, from the Wolfwire mould. I was initially going to use the wings from Twinferno, but I got a cheap TR Mindwipe, took the wings off, carved them down some with the dremel, and created a new peg (cast in black resin) that will attach to his back in alt-mode and his arm in robot mode.






Here's the first coat of paint. I dulled down the hot pink a little from the one I used on Horri-Bull, as it will be a far prominent colour on Fangry.


There were a couple of pieces that have ball joints, and I wasn't confident that I was going to get good results through just painting. Instead, I tried dying the pieces black using Rit DyeMore synthetic dye. Basically heating a mixture of dye and water to just short of boiling point and soaking the pieces for 15-20 minutes. Came up a treat!


It doesn't perfectly cover the blue pieces, but I can now paint all but the ball piece of the ball joint and it will look great, without creating rub points! I also dyed 2 of the alt mode feet.

I had to completely re-do the body, as I chose not to prime the pieces first, and the slightly different plastics were incompatible with the pink paint, and the paint flaked right off. Once I'd primed and repainted, they came out fine.


Reassembly, using the official Fangry titan master:




When I reassembled the alt-mode head, I initially didn't paint the inner soft plastic pieces (with the exception of the eyes, which are green), as they were already pink. But, then I discovered that the pink paint I was using does something absolutely awesome under a black light...



Same on Horri-Bull:



Added a whole new dimension I was not expecting. I went back and painted the inserts in Fangry's alt mode head and OMG...


Seriously, it looks like I've put LEDs in there. Which I haven't. And all done completely by accident.

Anyway, headed towards the home stretch with these guys. More final updates soon!

[UltraMarginal]

Very impressive work, you might have to do another metrotitan with that paint methinks.

[Ploughmans Lunch]

Great stuff!

[M-bot]

Very impressive work, you might have to do another metrotitan with that paint methinks.

Nooooooo!!!!





I’ll be doing a Fort Max though because I am an idiot. Look out for it in 2018.

Great stuff!

Thanks!