ALL THINGS TRANSFORMERS!!!!

[bagelsncheesey]

Hey B&C! What up duder?

whats up buddy

 

[frenzy_rumble]

More hours, sweat, blood and tears went into this project... than any other of my customs. The holy grail of details. Each figure in this diorama is carefully depicted in the following threads :

Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, and Laserbeak
https://procustomizers.com/showthread.php?t...light=soundwave

MP Soundwave
https://procustomizers.com/showthread.php?t...light=soundwave

MP Starscream
https://procustomizers.com/showthread.php?t...ight=starscream

Reflector
https://procustomizers.com/showthread.php?t...light=reflector

Megatron and throne
https://procustomizers.com/showthread.php?t...hlight=Megatron

I don't even know where to start with this project's description. Client wanted a display / diorama to fit on his shelf. So, with the diorama/display - I started with igear's Ark playset/base (not the greatest engineered piece by a long shot) hacked the hell out of, custom built floor, added sections (some even scratch-built) of console, custom walls, etc. Went to town for several days on the details, every single frikin button is painted, and was then coated with several layers of gloss to create an embossed button look. Monitors/screens illuminate and were reverse printed on clear plexi, and backlit, painted with translucent white.

Specs/Details of diorama (see threads above for characters)

- Scratch built light up energon cubes
- Custom built energon hose with flickering effect LED mimicking flowing energon
- Embossed faction symbols
- 3 illuminated monitors
- 7 illuminated screens
- "transforming" MP Soundwave (from WST on console, to mid-transformation G1 sized Soundwave, to robot mode (MP Soundwave)
- Electro-luminescent lines on base's floor
- Various LEDs all over
- Dimensions : 30" wide x 14" deep x 14" tall(76.2 cm x 35.56 cm x 35.56 cm)
- Display include plexi/acrylic cover (not shown)
- Characters are fused to the base. Most retain articulation, but all feet are fused to the base's floor.
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All component with LEDs all stream to a main control / circuit board. Big Hank (master of electronics) actually took a flight up to my shop Easter weekend to wire this all up. There are roughly 100 wires going to the circuit board. The diorama's lights are toggled by 3 small switches on the left side of the piece. 1 switch for the floor panel lights (x5) 1 switch for the monitors, 1 switch for all the characters. Most components all have proper resistors installed in their wiring as well (helps dim the brightness, and control the flow of the power) Diorama's light are powered by a 3 volt wall adapter!

In addition, you might notice that Laserbeak, Ravage, Frenzy and Rumble all have working LED lights in their optic sensors. All done by Big Hank (amazingly impressive too) He used SMT lights in them, each light measuring about 1mm - 2mm in size!

This diorama was difficult to photograph (because of the size, lighting, etc) yet, the entire gallery can be seen : https://www.flickr.com/photos/accardi1/sets...ith/5664298571/

Here's a blurry video of the project :
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMbtsN5AKJY"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMbtsN5AKJY[/ame]

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[frenzy_rumble]

more images :

 

[zerogouki]

That's just jaw-dropping man! Fantastic work.

 

[Furious1]

Holy crap!!

 

[Valfar]

Best pics so far in this whole thread..wow man..awesome work FR.

 

[Deak Starkiller]

Stellar work FR!!! Wow. Jaw dropping.

 

[frenzy_rumble]

wow! thanks guys!

 

[Reinhardt]

This needs to be a sticky on the front page of the forum. Holy crap!! The Soundwave and Megatron customs in particular are insane, but so is EVERYTHING else!!

Going to do one for the Autobots now??

 

[laudel7]

Amazing work

 

[CREG Customs]

Good job man. Love the cubes.

 

[Glennfett]

NEW TRAILER IS UP

https://www.transformersmovie.com/

 

[greygoose]

Insanely amazing!

 

[Jaycepticon]

wow:eek




...just....wow

 

[Spanbauer]

NEW TRAILER IS UP

https://www.transformersmovie.com/

Pretty damn epic.

 

[greygoose]

Pretty damn epic.

Too much epicness before bed!

 

[greygoose]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3GXia5DW9U"]YouTube - Transformers: Dark of the Moon[/ame]

 

[Glennfett]

the end scene with the building looks INSANE!!!!

Shockwave trying to look all bad ass,lol.
shame....no sentinal prime yet.

 

[starscream77]

*craps pants*

 

[laudel7]

Holy ____