After getting some Optimus Primes at half off from Target, I decided to do a repaint of him into Pipes. Why Pipes? Why not? I thought about doing Huffer, but went with Pipes instead. I always liked his G1 toy, but it drove me nuts how small he was when he was supposed to be a semi. I know Prime doesn't transform the same way as the G1 toy and I don't really care. I tried to figure out a way to take the door panels off his arm and make them flip up on the back, but it was going to be a lot more fabrication than I wanted to deal with. However, in keeping with his G1/cartoon form, I make some custom exhaust/blasters for his arm. I tried to find a toy that I could take the exhaust pipes off of, but couldn't find any so I just made some. If you look close, you can see some scribe marks where I tried to make it look like it was vented. I gave up after my lines were not coming our straight, it was also my first time at using a scriber and I need more practice. I gave him a red visor like his toy instead of eyes that are in the show, I just liked the visor better. I might turn my other prime into Huffer. The blue is Testors Blue Angel Blue and white is SEM vinyl dye. I dirtied him up a bit after all was said and done.
NICE! I love Pipes (the toy, at least... can't really remember much of him from the cartoon) and I LOVE when people do upgraded forms for the minibots. You picked a great, understated color.... it looks really classy. The head looks great, and you did a good job differentiating the figure from Prime. It doesn't bother me that the smokestacks aren't obviously vented.... again, that just helps him look a bit different than Prime.
Wow, that's not what I was expecting at all! I thought it was going to be a Cybertron Armorhide repaint. This looks awesome! Very interesting and well done!
Looks great! My only complaint is that his blue looks a bit dark, but it could be the lighting. Awesome work! I, too, have a spare Prime...maybe I'll follow your lead...
I like alot! Might have to try something similar with my Prime since I hate that damned Uzi he comes with.
I think it might be the lighting and the fact that I had my camera in the wrong mode, that is where the fuzziness is coming from. I might retake the pictures. Thanks for the compliments everyone.
I think my Walmart still has some leftover Primes, I might have to pick one up and do this. Its a simply yet very cool idea.
Cool custom for a character I can barely remember in any form including the toy. Grown up some ain't he?
