Diaclone Marlboor Wheeljack

[rampagesss]

Ok well a little while ago i bought a KO G1 wheeljack so that i could turn it into the Diaclone Marlboor Wheeljack. The reason i wanted the KO was because it mould be mint and easy to work with. I bought a kit from Darkov on TFW2005 which included the head, windows and the other blue parts on his back.

He was painted with Tamiya Bright Red and i am very happy with the result since is next to impossible to find one now days.
But unfortunately repolabels no longer make the labels for him so am getting some custom made from a member on TFW2005

Anyway enjoy (I have Wheeljacks back wing but just couldn't be bothered getting itfor the pics)















The following picture shows that the fit on the KO isn't that great

[Hursticon]

Hmm, very interesting Rampagesss.
I'm curious to see how this 'de-evolution' goes as that head really does look like a primitive Wheeljack.

[heroic_decepticon]

damn, that's sweet!

how did you remove the original hood/windscreen?

[GoktimusPrime]

Can't wait to see it with all the stickers on. I've noticed that the original Marlboor toy never had any chest stickers and body kinda looks plain in robot mode (could be a reason why the other version was chosen for Wheeljack instead??) -- perhaps you could liven it up with this sticker there. Or maybe something like, "Smoking near stasis pods harms your protoform."

[rampagesss]

damn, that's sweet!

how did you remove the original hood/windscreen?

The windscreen just pops off pritty easy, then just click/snap in the new one

Can't wait to see it with all the stickers on. I've noticed that the original Marlboor toy never had any chest stickers and body kinda looks plain in robot mode (could be a reason why the other version was chosen for Wheeljack instead??) -- perhaps you could liven it up with this sticker there. Or maybe something like, "Smoking near stasis pods harms your protoform."

Just learned that the guy in the US who is makeing the stickers actually paid delta star (the guy who runs repolabels) $20US for the file with all the stickers, since repolabels wont do them anymore.

And just going to keep him as his diaclone self looked then put him on my shelf with other customs that i can afford the real versions of, so next to my Black Zarak and Artfire

[rampagesss]

Finally after months of waiting

STICKERS!!!!
















With his Diaclone brothers