Hotwire's Customsized Toys

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Decided to share my artwork with everyone here. These are some of the custom Transformers I've done over the past year. Check back for updates and some WIPs (Works In Progress). With all of these mini-galleries, you can click the name of the figure to see what they looked like before I customized them.

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Let's start with Jazz! I took a Revenge of the Fallen Smokescreen and turned him into a Transformers version of the Yakuza Stinger from Grand Theft Auto 3!

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This is Recon Ironhide! I loved the figure, but hated the factory paint! Besides, as any Transformers fan knows, Ironhide was red. Now, I don't mind the idea of him being black in the movies, but I thought this would ass some flair!

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This is Revenge of the Fallen Lockdown. When i first saw the figure, I thought of Mad Max and Death Race. Well, that's where I went with this one.

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This is Revenge of the Fallen Soundwave. He's a pretty straight repaint, with a couple minor modifications. I painted the translucent blue parts to glow-in-the-dark, but was never able to get a good picture of it.

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What would Soundwave be, without his minion, Revenge of the Fallen Ravage? With Ravage, he had this gimmick in his neck that I replaced with a ball joint. The laser blast were made using Star Wars lightsabers.

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And a couple works in progress...

The figures from the Transformers: War for Cybertron game...

And the Jedi Starfighter I'm working on for an upcoming charity auction...

[Thedoodler]

cool

[BillPardy]

Really wicked.

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[B-man]

great work

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Thanks, dude! Also, gave you a "Like" on Facebook.

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This is a custom Sith Starfighter done as part of the ProCustomizers.com charity auction for the relief effort in Japan. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross to help those in Japan effected by the earthquake and tsunami.

I did this as a team up with fellow ProCustomizers.com member Zartanman, who made the figure. I had the idea that, what if Han Solo had been raised by a Sith. The result was Darth Solo, scourge of shipping vessels everywhere. In his Starfighter, taken from the Jedi he killed, he hunts down the ships with the most valuable cargoes, using his lightsaber to keep a tally on the side of his ship.

The ship was painted in Tamiya acrylics along with Spaz Stix glow-in-the-dark blue in the engines. Everything was coated in Testors Dullcoate for added durability.

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Something new I'm working on. The figure is Transformers Generations Drift, and I am designing him a massive sword to go along with a new paint job.

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I did Perceptor here for a Japan tsunami relief auction.

[Benstamania]

You gave Drift a Buster Sword! Haha.

All around great work.

[Colossal Spoons]

You're really good at that flatblack paint.

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It's amazing what you can forget to paint. I put him back together to make sure all the white was the same shade, and, well, I missed a few spots. Also found some paint rub. Really thinking he may not get any alt mode colors on the bot parts. Also, you'll notice I completely removed the rear windows, looks more sleek, I think. The final paint scheme will have waves of black and waves of red fading back along the car.

[Colossal Spoons]

Can't wait to see the finished product man

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Originally Posted by Colossal Spoons

Can't wait to see the finished product man

Thanks. How goes the work on Ironhide?

[Colossal Spoons]

Haven't gotten to him yet. Work's been craaaazy lately.

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Will post a better gallery soon, but wanted to put something up. This was my gift to a friend as part of a secret Santa a group of us did.

Click for what he looked like before.

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This guy was done as a gift for a friend. I always felt, with all the stories Kup told, he should really look like he's been through Hell a few times. So, he has massive amounts of battle damage, and worn out paint.

My biggest change to the figure was a mod on his arms. It started as an accident, but it's greatly improved the figure. The doors are no longer attached to his arms, but rather pop into place in alt mode. In robot form, they attach to the backs of his legs with hidden magnets.

Enjoy!!

As a bonus, I recently received a custom G1 Snarl. There was no way in Hell I could not have both Kup, and a Dinobot in my possession at the same time, and not have a little story time!!

[Juggertha]

The mechs look really cool.

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Thanks, guys!