I started to gather the troops last night... These look so totally great together.


Masterpiece Optimus Prime, Inferno and Grapple


Masterpiece Optimus Prime, Inferno and Grapple


Masterpiece Optimus Prime, Grapple, Inferno, Ratchet and Ironhide


Masterpiece Optimus Prime, Grapple, Inferno, Ratchet and Ironhide

 

Nice!

Thanks.  

Cracking shots.

I posted this elsewhere, and I hope people will forgive the large presence of 3P, but it's still an exciting moment to see the full Ark crew lined up in one form or another.  

 

Thx, man. Love your sets.

Awesome piece of photography. Great time to be a G1 collector.

 

Thanks - it certainly is!

 

nice pic.. love it..

 

Agreed. Really surprised by how much I liked Inferno and the subtle differences with Grapple made him stand out instead of being a straight repaint like a lot of the first carbot releases.

 

That was my tutorial   If TT don't hurry and release MP-18+ then I'm gonna have to make this custom again, as I sold mine in my great purge last summer.

 

The facesculpt is what i like more in the older seeker mold.

 

Ah yes I see now, if you want fully cartoon accurate you need a head from MP-18 too. But yours looks great, definitely cheaper to just use MP-18S!

This was mine:



Head, shoulders and chest from MP-18, everything else from MP-18S. This was V2, where I painted the silver onto MP-18's chest, rather than the black onto MP-18S's chest, as I didn't want the Autobot logo to be a sticker.

I do wonder if we get MP-18+ from Takara will he be this nice silver or maybe some kind of grey/white like MP-14+.

 

Nice! Looks like we can start using these things as chess pieces soon. 

 

I don't know about you guys, but I'd totally be down for a pearlescent grey Bluestreak+. I'd like them to do Wheeljack in toon colours the most though.

 

Gosh, Thrust is breathtaking.



All the best
Maz

 

And a slightly over-processed shot of Magnus:



All the best
Maz

 

what do you use to edit your photos

 

As of last weekend I shoot in RAW format and try to correct lighting and colours in Adobe Lightroom, then over to Adobe Photoshop for some polish like removing stuff on the background or sharpening a bit etc.

All the best
Maz

 

Agreed, once MP-11SW took Walmart Skywarp's spot on my shelf I absolutely needed Starscream and Thundercracker to display with Wal-Warp in Alt-Mode. Only the Vette's, Datsun's and VW's come as close to vehicle mode perfection as the MP-3 mould IMHO. The Igear's will join them once Dirge is out.

Now that's a mighty hip Thrust!   I'm sorry, I'll leave now.  

 

Love the background!