So Cheetimus made me a yellow Hot Shot, because he loves me or something. Sorry, Cheets, I already have a bromance going!
At some point Cheetimus realized that he can paint, and so recently he’s been doing piles of modifications to Transformers toys to either make them look more like their media appearances or just for fun. For example, he’s done buttloads of Ratchets and Knock Outs and such. Definitely stuff above my particular skill level, for sure. For example, just by looking at this Hot Shot he sent me, I notice he can actually paint straight. (Rulers and straight lines have always been my natural enemy. I mean, check out these old It’s Walky! strips… these panel borderss were drawn with a straight edge. I kid you not.)
The Hot Shot he sent me is the offspring of two toys. Cheets took a PRID Bumblebee and gave him PRID Hot Shot’s head. After all, that gives you a yellow Hot Shot, correct, without nearly as much painting? Then it was a simple(?) matter of detailing him to look more like a classic Hot Shot deco. He seems to have gone for the Armada animation colors route, with the grays instead of navy blues. Bumblebee’s stripes were painted over in red and his gut and thighs were done in red also, with some silver accents to call back to his Armada seatbelt chest details.
He’s perfectly transformable, though Cheets warned me not to fuss with his visor. The paint there means it can’t be moved anymore without scraping.
This toy reminds me of the early Armada Hot Shot prototype, the broadshouldered one. Aaron Archer said one of the reasons for the change was that he didn’t think the “football player” look worked for the character, and the transformation made him too wide. And yet, here we are.
To sum up, Cheetimus is good at painting. If you think your Knock Out needs more yellow, I’d check him out.
You didn’t noticed I painted over all the yellow?
I am disappoint.
I was actually looking at his stuff earlier today and knew the Hot Shot had to be for you. I am strongly considering getting the Ratchet and Arcee treatment from him when I can afford it
Damn… I really want one of those. That’s a really nice job done there. While he’s obviously the same toy, he really just does not ‘register’ as Bumblebee, but as Hot Shot. That’s pretty damn impressive.
(I’d also like to see what he would look like, painted up in Excellion colors.)
…Excellion colors is what the retail one looks like!
Nah, you’re thinking of Exillion’s colors. Excellion is more G1 Hot Rod.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Excellion_%28Cybertron%29
Damn that C.
How’d that slip by you of all people? I thought there was some unspoken agreement that we always default to the Western names ’round them here parts? Willis, son… I’m am disappoint.
Yeah, joking aside, I probably should have clarified that more.
I love Cheets works, they’re all kinds of awesome!
One of the best parts is his eyebrows and eyes are no longer confusing.
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Not sure, but I wonder if he gets the straight lines the same way they do on motorcycles. First, they paint their initial coat, let that dry. Then using masking tape, they go over the sections they want to add details too.
Admittedly, they mostly do this kind of work with spray paint, but most paints come in both forms & I’ve seen tools that let you make a conversion.
Personally, I can’t paint, if my life depended on it. But I’ve gotten slightly better results from spray paint.
Nope, I just drag the brush in as straight a line as possible. I find masking the areas off creates too much bleeding.
So Dave what do you call Blueshot, now that you have Cheetshot?