if you have Refraktor, then there are no surprises here as far as the engineering and build quality goes. This is just as solid and fun as Refraktor, so not much else to say there. The paint, though... Wow. The paint on this release really impresses me. The metallics are stunning, and the battle damage on the legs is unique in that it's different on all three of my copies. Quite nice. I know the spaceship mode was kind of a throw-away, but Scrapface here pulls it off quite nicely. Oh yeah, he also turns into a camera...
Great pics! Crapface is the only Netflix release I want so far. I love the colors. His entirety unpainted backside is kinda funny, like they made him stand against a wall while painting him. Hehe.
Is he completely gray plastic and all the colors are his paint apps? Guess that's how they afforded the metallic paint job.
for some reason, his face looks really weird to me in that deco, but the rest of him looks really nice. maybe not as good of a camera as the other sets, but as a stand alone, solid.
I never bothered getting the other iterations of this mold (although the toy-based 3-pack is tempting, I'm holding out for someone, anyone, to make a set of toy-accurate head replacements first), but this guy is a neat little dude, perfect for army-building if he wasn't a store exclusive that seems to be shortpacked. Color layout reminds me of GIJoe's Scrap Iron. Paint is beautiful, love the metallic blue and the clear red. My current head canon is that "Scrapface" is something like Madrox from the X-Men comics where they can self-duplicate and those duplicates can combine into various permutations including gunships, an "observation post", various robotic creatures, and so on, and are limited only by how many of Scrapface are present at a given time. In theory, with a robust enough energy supply, Scrapface could number in the dozens or more. They ostensibly are a single shared mind, but in theory if one of the Scrapfaces was separated from the rest it might eventually develop an independent personality... or go insane, we're not sure.
Funnily enough, that WAS the original idea for G1 Reflector on the cartoon. In fact it even made it into the show, but was for some reason mostly edited out at the last minutes. There are still one or two shots of the three Reflector guys merging into one guy accidentally left in.
This guy's paint apps, he's the first version of this mold that I feel like his official altmode and variants looks more appropriate than camera mode. I can really see this one as a guy who does sabotage and spec ops in the slums of Cybertron. Kudos to the netflix color design team!
I bought 3 of these guys from the awesome, @Moos Crew. I must say, out of all the Refraktor dudes, Scrapface is by far the coolest looking one of the bunch. I bought his 3 for a mere $60.00. I huge deal from a very cool guy on here! Anyway... Just a beautiful figure. and having 3 is just... *chef's kiss* magnifique!
My HC is that this TF model largely served as the Decepticon fodder. When Shockwave was first doing his combiner experiments, Spyglass, Viewfinder, and Spectro were "volunteered". The experiment was a partial success, with the three able to combine into a single alt mode. However, over time they lost the ability to separate their individual consciousness along with their bodies. A single being, Reflector, was created. Over the millenia the others lost their identies, joined to the Reflector collective. They became Shockwave's second eye; what one sees, they all see, and they all report to Shockwave. Scrap Iron is the last of the "Reflectors" to retain his individual identity. Though one of their most skilled physical combatants on Cybertron, he bears the scars of thousands of battles, derisively nicknamed "Scapface" by the Air Warriors. Isolated and alone among the Decepticons, it is only his intense loyalty to Megatron that keeps him in their ranks. He only hopes that they can win this war before being assumed into the Reflector hive mind.
@Moos Crew, These might actually be more appreciated here my friend: Refraktor Reconnaissance Team 3-Pack Review Thread Also, no worries my friend, I totally got ya covered.
