lol

 

No idea, but it looks like someone turned the G1/G2 dinobots into weapons,  

 

Kabaya Change Battler.

 

Behold!

- KBB oversized Steelbane

 

interesting

 

Been waiting for Steelbane. Wonder why the thread for it didn’t get updated

 

I'm unsure as to if these would count as Knock-offs/bootlegs per-say but they certainly aren't officially licensed or made by the original producer (as such, are thus reproduced without permission). Regardless, I hope some may find these intriguing. All of these were found on the website Thingiverse and can be 3D printed, free of charge. Links are provided to the Thing's page under each picture.


80's Car to Robot transformer with hubcap by SlightlyAbnormal
First off, A replica of G1 Cliffjumper, nearly 1-1 from what I can tell.


Transformer Slammer by 3Dsolutech
next, Manacle (Slammer), originally by Iron-Factory, from the IF-EX02 Turrets and Manacle set


TRANSFORMER[REPLICA]: Blaster 3D Solutech Designed by 3Dsolutech
Sonitech (Blaster), from Iron-Factory's IF-EX03 Sonitech Bassrhino Leotrible set


Masterpiece by petergross3
Alternate Masterpiece Parts by Warboy (alternative parts for less painting
And what I'm sure will intrigue the most, a 1-1, 3D printable replica of an MP Optimus

 

Thats an actual phone number lol

 

most likely because everyone forgot about it and thought it was a scrapped idea....

 

in other news.... guess weijang is making an oversized studio series optimus.... and the paint might make me buy it... WeiJiang Oversized SS05 Optimus Prime

the paint looks insane... and apparently its going to stand at 11 inches...

 

A 3d printed one, at that. Though I think this is might technically be based on Hubcap, not Cliffjumper. The lack of a spoiler in car mode is a Hubcap trait.

zmog

 

Have you printed any of these? I've had them all downloaded to print for a couple months now but haven't tried any. Curious if anyone has any actual experience with the models.

 

I haven't yet, but I intended on printing the Minibot (whoever it might be) tomorrow. I've got some Glow in the Dark filament I want to make the body out of.

 

Aww shucks. And given that I'm your only real rival for Paul's Mortgage payments, it stands to reason we'd have similar tastes  

I gave Hubcap a whirl (I'ts definitely supposed to be Hubs, the name of the files indicates so as well), now I screwed around with the scale a little and printed him in a high-res SLA material, so I definitely wasn't using the files as designed, but:

Like a lot of the stuff you find on Thingiverse the engineering is optimized for FDM ABS - now this isn't a bad thing, I always preach designing for your particular material in mind. But this thing uses a lot of "cheats" in the engineering that you can get away with in FDM ABS to make it all work based on just friction. I'm going to try gluing him together at some point, but I think the ankle mechanisms are going to be useless even with all the shell parts nice and tight.

That said it's good modelling work, the files are packaged a little sloppily, but it's not bad for a freeebie.

I grabbed the slammer too, haven't tried him yet though.

 

Good to know. I was thinking about printing him on my SLA printer so I could make him WST-scale, but now I'll just do him on one of my FDMs and tweak as needed. You're definitely right about designing toward the material -- I've done stuff I was planning on doing the final in resin for the higher resolution but fired off tests on the FDM because it's faster. The results from the FDM would look good enough I'd try with the resin and it wouldn't be nearly as nice/joints wouldn't line up as well.

 

Decided to put your inquiry here as well since Paul frequents this thread more than any other on these boards.

Plus, there are others in this thread that have done a number of customizations with things from his site.... KO CW seekers included (here’s a link to a pic from ~page 1240: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/27713023/)

Oh, and @vvvTheONEvvv & @destrongerlupus, as for paying off his mortgage, slow your roll... I’d like for the large volume of flash sales to come back.  

 

No, I needz moar

 

Assuming this is the same one from the other thread (has it's own thread what ever it is), I think these are the first "studio" pictures and the first pictures at all of the truck mode. I was already wondering if I might have to get it, at that price and now apparently confirmed as Wei Jiang, I'm probably going to have to.

 

lowest i've seen it for is $65 usd at showzstore.com. let me know if it drops lower. the os ss.

 

Actually, after a closer examination, this is not the same as the other unless they've made further paint improvements since the initial pictures (which is certainly always possible). There may be 2 of these coming out.