Love the sumdac lab and smelting pool. praise for how accurate you got the damaged megatron head in brick form. Even the optics are set up differently.
There's actually a white round tile behind the eye settup on the 'good' eye, so it has a round iris. I used a clear headlamp brick, so that when it lights up the light can shine through everything EXCEPT the iris. I'm pleased with that little piece of building. --andrew S.
Wow the Megatron head looks fantastic. My favorite of favs the smelting pool looks outstanding. The LED and the generics work so great. Adding the ledge was a nice touch too.
The smelting Pool, and the Space Bridge itself are my two all-time favourite Transformers set pieces. There's just nothing else like them in the entire fiction. --Andrew s.
I'm re-reading my way through the old comic series and just passed the Smelting Pool and Spacebridge. Thought of this great MOC as poor Scrounge was sinking into the magma.
Here's a room themed on Tidal Wave. Basically -- it's a room with a built Tidal Wave in it. It's built into the same room as the crane that I've shown off before. --Andrew S.
So, hey... it's been a while since I updated. So why not update with... Swindle Swindle and Swindle? For those not in the know, Swindle Swindle and Swindle is a shop in the Transtech fiction run from three different Swindles from three different dimensions. It contains a bunch of TF references as stock -- and out the back they have a little body-swap shop. So I built a Swindle Swindle and Swindle! In the photos you can see how the shop opens up, and a bunch of the stock that's stored in the back. There's also some pictures suggesting some of the stuff going on underneath the store -- you might be able to just see a guy under the grating. Anyway... I've got more to post, namely the back room and the fully stocked shop... so I'll do that in the next post.
I made Swindle, Swindle and Swindle because someone over on the Allspark sent me a donation of a tonne of Kreons that he didn't want any more. I hadn't really intended on making this room for the Space Bridge -- now I can't really imagine my Space Bridge without it. It's now one of the three foundation rooms. Because it's built directly on the foundation it's able to be much bigger than the other rooms, and stores a bunch of neat stuff. For example there is a back room which can be accessed by a side door -- or by taking the roof (which is the rest of the space bridge, admittedly) off... or by a door in the main room. This back room contains, as you can see in the pictures, the chop-shop section of the store -- with all the parts for doing body-swaps and such. This set of pictures also shows all the little micro-builds outside of the room, and what it looks like when all the shelves and displays are set up on the shop floor. --Andrew S.
There's an ongoing Kre-O appreciation thread you can check out: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-toy-discussion/574943-kre-o-appreciation-thread.html I'd suggest just skipping to the latest posts, unless you wanna brave several hundred pages. But there's a few great guys in there making custom Kre-O stuff, and LEGO builds. --Andrew S.
Here's my Axalon build. There's a sliding chair, a computer bay, and a removable "Sentinel" computer panel. There's even a little plant in the corner. Because Maximals like flowers. But the main feature is the Maximal CR chamber, which can change an injured Cheetor into a non-injured Cheetor! It works based on a simple turntable. The rear of the Axalon is open so you can replace the 'fixed' Maximal without ever breaking the illusion of the CR chamber working.
So what follows is a bunch of pictures of the reverse side of the space bridge structure. The first picture is of the space bridge before I started building details on the reverse side. Then after that it's pictures of the detailing I was doing. Basically I wanted the reverse side of the space bridge to be really really playsetty -- it's got all kinds of platforms and ladders and weapons storage and things like that. My favourite is Hun-Grr's little gluttony platform. The final images are something I stole from Skullgrinner's Cybertron build. You can see the source inspiration here: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-customs/1003092-kre-o-cybertron.html#post11645550 Basically... I built a false door (this door leads to my Velocitron playset, it's not a real door to a real room) for me to display some Decepticons flying out of. --Andrew S.
These last few pictures show more of the ladder system and the platforms. Also -- you can see me take a photo of a wall, decide it's too bland, then go back and rebuild it into a Bumblebee prison. --Andrew S.
Seeing all of the rooms put together... A proper word to describe how awesome this is hasn't been invented yet. Makes me want to build one. (But I don't have enough Legos to do so.)
Okay. Time to update with something neat. My Ark. I'm just gunna spam the hell out of this with about 5 or 6 posts with ridiculous amounts of images. But dammit, this was a big one. The exterior section of the Ark makes up the upper cross-section of my Space Bridge. It has to hold the whole Space Bridge together -- and it's going to need to support a fair bit of weight. It's pretty strong, and pretty huge. It also transforms from the piece of the bridge into the space ship form. It's based on the Ark from the comic books -- it's lost a bit of the shape profile of the Ark from the comics because of its need to be a part of the Space Bridge. On the outside there's an entry hatch and a removable Sky Spy.
So now we look at the top of the Ark. Its fold-up bridge section opens up to reveal a bridge section which further folds out. Woo. Then you move all the way to the other side of the Ark for the small self-contained cells at the very front of the Ark. These little sections contain a jail cell (based on the UK story Crisis of Command), and a Guardian robot (also from the UK comics -- specifically from Raiders of the Last Ark and Wrath of Grimlock/Wrath of Guardian). --Andrew S.
