This is the first member of my black ops team phantom squadron, the team is going to be a wreckers like group but with the emphasis being on stealth and silent elimination of high value targets but I'll go into that more when I unveil the finished team.Zero Point was named after the condition that Springer has after his encounter with Overlord and consists of 2 idw/armada starscream's 1 being the engines/ backpack from my hopefully soon to be completed pharma, the head of hftd breacher, 1 cannon from a foc twintwist who became topspin and the tip of a blaster from construct a bots thundercracker which will be his range finder and is so far painted in rust-oleum flat black and colonial red and is obviously still a work in progress but I'm loving how he looks so far. I may remake him later when they come out with jhiaxus because it looks a bit more cybertronian imho. Anyway here's a bit of his backstory...... Zero Point originally joined the Decepticon cause early on believing in Megatron's view that all cybertronians should be treated as equals, but later as the cause became twisted and changed by events and the Decepticon leader more and more violent in his methods Zero Point realized this was no longer the just cause he had so passionately sworn to serve and becoming more disillusioned he chose to leave. Unsure of the Autobot cause or agenda and not wanting to side against former allies and friends he chose instead to leave cybertron all together for parts unknown were he used his talents as everything from hired body guard to assasin . This outlier has an ability similar to Skids but differing in the fact that he can "learn" other outliers abilities, generally this is a short term event, usually happening in the heat of battle as a defensive reaction to another outliers attack and fades soon after the conflict is over. Its only permanently stuck once in the case of skywarp and his teleportation ability, the reason for this being thought to be that as allies working closely and even fighting each other in mock battles and war games that he had some how unknowingly unlocked the secret of his abilities allowing him to use it at will, however its only one instance. At one point in his travels he was unfortunate enough to be found by the DJD and be involved in a verbal standoff with Tarn and survive, this was only due to realizing from reputation what Tarn was up to and modulating his vernier to create a vibration on a frequency to cancel the vocal modulation out. Then while Tarn tryed to figure out why his favorite trick wasnt workingZero Point used the confusion to "blink" out of the immediate area. Eventually he came to know a few Autobot and realize that they were trying to end the long running war for the better and was approached to be part of a black ops team code named Phantom squadron..... Well its still a work in progress and I will tie all the members stories in later, as always constructive criticism is appreciated and hope you enjoy, let me know what you think
That is damn good mate! I love the concept, and the story. And it is great to see this mold getting some use other than seekers in general
Sweet! It's like he's got a Macross look to him with the cannons on top, but replacing the wings with the engines not only makes him look more Cybertronian, it gives his vehicle mode the look of a flying tank. Great idea you have here, sir.
Im actually considering using the idea of moving the engines pods out on the wings for 1 seeker and thats thrust because as soon as I did it and looked at them on my pharma it instantly came to mind
Lol I wasnt until after I added the shoulder cannon that I saw the resemblance to macross/robotech as well... makes me consider doing up some veritechs as well lol
I dig the custom but you need to paint the head. As for the back story it's a good start. I REALLY like the mimic ability but I'd cut the teleportation ability. You generally only should have one at maximum. I like that you had him questioning the Autobots and didn't want to fight former friends. That's a good bit of dynamic there. I also like having him leave the war, but the problem is that to leave the Deceptions is a LOT harder said than done. I would edit it a bit to say that he's been on the run from the DJD ever since and his mimic ability is the only thing that protects him from Tarn's voice (since Tarn isn't killed by his own voice it makes sense). Were I seeing a movie about this character THAT would be the main antagonists. It would be a movie completely about Zero Point trying to figure out who he is while running from the DJD. I would also add an important character to the story. Zero Point would, in my rendition, be fleeing the DJD in a desperate way assured to failure, only to be rescued by a weak and for all intents and purposes, useless Autobot. These two would then spend act 2 unwilling allies. Act 3 would see them triumph as Zero Point realizes that who he is, is an Autobot, and flee to the safety of the major Autobot ranks. But that's me. Your story is not bad though.
Lol I just got that head and still not sure if I wanna do it in red or flat black yet, and I'm still kinda fleshing his story out in my mind and how it ties into the other members of the group so there will be more to come
Just a quick pic and peek at Zero with one of his teammates who was originally going to be foc arcee but I decided she'll be another original character.... still not sure about her head, obviously still needs painted like Zero's head but anyhow there's a sneak peek at Arcadia
