kidkorrupt

lol! i found a chris B head and was trying to remember the guys name who did it. google brought me here

i saw my old forum post count 3,200, holy crap, was on here a LOT.

the thing that got me out was we started getting bombed with too many releases, couldn't keep track and had no money back then.

Hello Everyone!

Been a long time!

I started collecting robolinks so if you got any for sale let me know!

http://www.microforever.com/blockmanindex.htm

SWEEETTTTTTTTTTTT

Props to you guys and the prop company for doing such fantastic work. You can really see the high level of craftsmanship and the shaky but steady hands that did all the fine detailing.

damn sexy beauty shots, lol.

Now go show em off on a Japanese forum =D

hey thanks everybody, i was in china for 2 weeks and thought this post would be way gone.

knight26 glad to see you are still around, is that a google sketchup creation in your avator? the scholarship was just a school scholarship to try and get more DISCOUNT on tuition. the macross stuff was about 2% of all the design-y stuff i had to show.

What kind of scholarship are these for?

for the 1/55 ostrich the backpack's booster tabs are at an angle so you pretty much have to mount them with the tailpack open and at an angle or else the two boosters wouldn't be parallel to the valkyrie

Would it be completely incorrect to mount the Super O boosters like the Super/Strike pack, i.e. parallel to the nose of the fighter?

I can't understand for the life of me why they aren't both mounted the same way and I am thinking I will just mount my Super O just like the standard Super.

hey jas-

all of them have gerwalk but i didn't have time to photograph them all....and also the "macross" section in my portfolio would have been too many pages.

gbp for joke machine and a SD regult with pilot..... never finished, hahaha

1/55 elintseeker

i took pictures of my old macross stuff for my scholarship portfolio and thought i'd throw up these better pictures compared to the ones i took with a 1.3 megapixel camera w/ a blue folder for the background, hahhahaha.

i found my ostrich in the gallery as non-transformable, it was transformable but i never got the correct moveable fingers so i never took pictures of it. the legs are those rare and legendary FULCY hips, ankles, and feet all the old folks know about.

the funny thing about these is i was in a rush and decided to not put the heatshields on thinking that none of the people doing the portfolio review would know the difference anyway. the whole time i was thinking "man, if i put these on the boards everybody will yell at me for not putting the heatshield on". hahahhaa.

i had some picture of jetfire, the original toy, and accurate art to show the people doing the review what existed, what i started with, and my final model

i measured it off of a jetfire so it's the exact height of jetfire minus the antennaes but much bulkier, lol.

working on the styro, inserts, and packaging now. all nigghhtterrr time.

the clear thing in front is a laser cut autobot symbol with the details rastered in....the teacher wanted us to laser cut something.

the "styro" is 6 lb. yellow foam painted with fsc.

thanks nick for the template, i FINALLY figured out how to flip the chest vents the right way..instead of mounting onto the chest i mounted the hinge onto the hip bar so when you swing the legs back they face the cartoon accurate way...i did all that AFTER the god-awful-long alias renderings.

wish me luck guys! F, i heard today that the owner of giant robot is coming to our presentation.

g1 screencap showing chest vents:

jet

need to do package and insert, ahhhhhhhhhh

battroid

process

alias showing skyfire transforming in halo city (autobot headquarters)

big F-

how much did you pay for the SD kits?

i've been out of collecting waaay too long, they were going for $30-$40 when i was collecting and i could find any one of the kits i wanted from the for sale section here and on ebay.

3/4

3/4

for recasts i don't think anyone would want to pay the $190 bill. thats the price at no profit and it comes out as plaster of paris, very fragile and it IMPLODES when it comes in contact with water.

it needs about 4 hours of finishing with CA and a good 15 hours of sanding before its a decent part ready to be painted.

since i have the solidworks file and i'll be in asia for winter break ill see if this can be made for much cheaper.

for the jet mode i got as close to the cartoon reference as i could while maintaining the SD look and making it transformable.

today i figured out a way to make the chest intakes face the correct directions in both modes wihtout having to pull them off...but because of the proportions the arms and head have to be removed for jet mode.

for the sd figures on back i just used the myclones series.

thanks to the hot tip from nick, and also for his box scans which saved a lot of time.

thanks nick

top view

half parts printed out of plaster, 48.3 hours, wtf.

solscud is very genrously sending reissue box scans in layers so in 4 weeks it should be done, printed, in a vacuum form tray and custom box.

yo tony, do you get a laser cards with your instructor comps?

quickie gray alias render

reference shots compliment of seibertron.com

i redesigned a lot of things, most noticeably proportions but also gave the hands a more boxy transformer-y feel and added a lot of vent/exhaust details.