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A 'repaint' I did using Instructions for Armada Sideways downloaded from Hasbro's official Transformers website, [link]

The third member of the “Gestalt Project” Protectobots is none other than Groove. Like many of the others, there really was no real choice to make in which mold to use, as Sideways is the only deluxe motorcycle mold in either line. (Besides I don’t think he’d much appreciate having Arcee’s body, heh.) Groove here, provided me with the very first case of the original toy I was paying homage too, having a very pronounced color variation. Some had large silver chests, while others had gold. More often then not, Groove is portrayed with the gold chest. I really wanted to use that version, but I just couldn’t get it to work on the mold unfortunately. In the end, I went with the silver variation, and I must say, it worked out much better that way. A definite homage to silver-chested Groove, heh. I’m pretty happy with how this one came out. It gave me a lot of trouble, but the end result was worth it.

Keeping in line with the Minicon=Micromaster thing, Groove’s two Minicons would be named Strikedown (the silver one; Crosswise mold) and Stakeout (the midnight blue one; Rook mold). I thought those were both good “police” sounding names for the two Minicons of this very Police Motorcycle. I think I’d even go ahead and name their combined form, but all the good “police” sounding Micromaster names are taken. I’m actually kind of partial to “Roadburner” for the combined form though. Oh, and I REALLY wanted to give these Minicons more paint apps, but I decided to stick to a pure “Armada Sideways” paint scheme from the beginning, and to be quite frank, his Arm Minicons paint job (or lack there of) totally sucked. D’ah well. That’s what I get for trying to be a purist…

Vehicle Mode HERE: [link]

Artwork is © Hasbro, only colored by me (and halfassed at that) in plain ol' MS paint.

Description
A 'repaint' I did using Instructions for Armada Sideways downloaded from Hasbro's official Transformers website, [link]

The third member of the “Gestalt Project” Protectobots is none other than Groove. Like many of the others, there really was no real choice to make in which mold to use, as Sideways is the only deluxe motorcycle mold in either line. (Besides I don’t think he’d much appreciate having Arcee’s body, heh.) Groove here, provided me with the very first case of the original toy I was paying homage too, having a very pronounced color variation. Some had large silver chests, while others had gold. More often then not, Groove is portrayed with the gold chest. I really wanted to use that version, but I just couldn’t get it to work on the mold unfortunately. In the end, I went with the silver variation, and I must say, it worked out much better that way. A definite homage to silver-chested Groove, heh. I’m pretty happy with how this one came out. It gave me a lot of trouble, but the end result was worth it.

Keeping in line with the Minicon=Micromaster thing, Groove’s two Minicons would be named Strikedown (the silver one; Crosswise mold) and Stakeout (the midnight blue one; Rook mold). I thought those were both good “police” sounding names for the two Minicons of this very Police Motorcycle. I think I’d even go ahead and name their combined form, but all the good “police” sounding Micromaster names are taken. I’m actually kind of partial to “Roadburner” for the combined form though. Oh, and I REALLY wanted to give these Minicons more paint apps, but I decided to stick to a pure “Armada Sideways” paint scheme from the beginning, and to be quite frank, his Arm Minicons paint job (or lack there of) totally sucked. D’ah well. That’s what I get for trying to be a purist…

Vehicle Mode HERE: [link]

Artwork is © Hasbro, only colored by me (and halfassed at that) in plain ol' MS paint.