Hello all! I am new to the forum, and just wanted to post a work of mine which I think is quite original.
For the elder of you, I hope you remember the “Transformers” TV series. If you recall, there was a team of the evil robots (the Decepticons) called the “Seekers”. They were Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp and they all transformed to F-15s.
Well, I decided and built Skywarp! the kit is a 1/72 Heller F-15A, painted in the robot’s colours! I hope you like it!
WOW! that looks freaking awesome!
i really like the decepticon (spelling?) markings!
wow transformers, the seekers…brings back alot of childhood memories, i was only 9 or 10 i think.
great idea and awesome plane, please do some more!
oh almost forgot! [#welcome] Welcome to the forums!
The idea is to also build Starsceam and Thundercracker and present the trio at a model exhibition on November, in Greece. We’ll see until then!
I’m glad you appreciated the originality!
First, [#welcome] to the Forums.
Very cool subject[tup] Post some more pics of the this build and others, looking great.
Excellent idea, Viktor! and well done, I might add.
Here are some photos of the painting process (don’t have any others)
well, I think this is a neat original idea and well executed! nice paint job…cheers
You know…I have always wondered how hard it would be to scratch build a robot mode Starscream using parts from an F-15 kit and maybe a Gundam or Macross kit…maybe this will inspire me to find out.
Great looking Skywarp!
Thank you!
I think that Hasegawa used to produce some 1/72 Veritech Fighters (VF-1s) from the original Robotech Series.
As for scratch-building Starscream, I think it would be quite painful, that’s why I preferred the aircraft mode!
Robot in Disguise…
Cool idea!
Very cool.
Karl
Very cool! Well executed.
Very original. I think it’s a great break from seeing the same thing over and over again. I’d like to see the tree together. Keep us posted.
Is it just me or should the decepticons have been some kind of Soviet Mig instead? LOL
wow i just had a flahsback [8-] i remember the seekers nice work on ur f-15 oh and [#welcome]
The starship where the Autobots and Decepticons were fighting when they fell on Earth fell on American ground.
Millions of years after the crash, an earthquake moved slightly a tiny Decepticon robot which was revived by a special beam, then it woke up and started using data from American objects (jets primarily) to use as models for the Decepticons’ disguise.
That’s why they are F-15s
Oh man, im 40 and i remember ‘Transformers’ being the staple saturday morning ‘Must watch tv’. Very original idea, excellently done. Well done and welcome to the forums.
…Guy
The Macross VF-1’s would actually work for the Autobot Jetfire if you remember his toy was actually a reboxed VF-1.
Man, that brings back some memories. When I was a kid I had the Starscream and Skywarp Transformer toys.
I think also to keep with the whole robots in disguise thing they would have to choose american jets, imagine if in the mid 80’s all of a sudden there were a mig or 3 doing mach 1 over an american city…so much for disguise lol.