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Blueshift2k5 — Botcon: The Yomtov Factor 2
Published: 2011-01-09 10:04:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 3152; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 19
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The second of my Botcon concepts.Attendee set #1:
Hot Rod (from Classics Rodimus)
Crosscut (from Cybertron Menasor; new head)
Attendee set #2:
Galvatron (from Universe Galvatron)
Krunix (from Cybertron Override)
Freebie Souvenir:
Backdrop (from Reveal the Shield Jazz)
Hot Rod and Galvatron are coloured after their comic appearances. I'm frankly shocked Hasbro or Fun Pub haven't done this yet, despite the amount of times these molds have been released!
Crosscut is the chap Straxus sends through the space bridge in issue 18. The Menasor mold actually fits him quite closely - he has one hand with three prongs and one with one, and a weird boxy look. I think the mold's transformation would fit his weird head too. I wasn't sure what to do with the Minicon that came with him, so he is called Successor in a nod to 'Crosscut's Successor' as he is named on the tfwiki! - [link] (Decepticon)
Krunix is also known as Cyclonus II. He's a one-panel mistake character who got a new name when it was reprinted in the UK comic, though I went with Krunix here rather than have another Cyclonus. I went with Override because its a mold that hasn't got much use, the chest matches up quite well, and the head is reminiscant of G1 Cyclonus. - [link] (G1)
Backdrop is a new character who is a homage to Nel Yomtov's practise of block colouring characters in blue. He is a quiet character who always stays in the background, and doesn't really do much. I did play with making him more attractive by giving him different colours, ie blue and silver, but decided that his whole reason to exist was that he was block-coloured!
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MMmmm! Marvel-colored Hot Rod!
But I thought they tended to color his upper legs white/silver? Although it could be that's just the way they did it when he was reverted to Hot Rod from Rodimus in the Space Pirates storyline, which is, for some reason, the one I recall the coloring on the most. I imagine there were probably plenty of inconsistencies.
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This is true, his upper thighs were mostly silver, though in the Headmasters mini they were yellow, and I liked them better like that (and thought noone would notice).
But then if you do have them silver, either all the other yellow parts have to be painted yellow, or the thighs pasted silver, and they all have moving paint-scrapy hinges
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Aaaaah, okay.
I have to admit, I favor the magenta-and-silver myself, but it is still awesome to see him in his glorious purply-pink.
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