KINGBOTZ
New Member
Hey guys, I'm new to the site & boards here, a friend of mine told me about this site & suggested I share this build with ya! I decided to check it out & I'm absolutely blown away by the work & talent I've seen on here so far. A few months back I was commissioned to scratch-build a movie-scale 2007 TFTM "Frenzy" to the best of my resources & ability. This guy was commissioned by a client in Canada whom owns a "Barricade" replica-car from the 2007 movie, he wanted a movie-sized "Frenzy" to sit in the passenger-seat to display at the upcoming "Fan Expo" (Canadian equivalent of Comic-Con) at the end of this month. He will also be showing the pair at other various car-shows, benefits & kids-charities, so it's all for a good cause too! 
I knew what I was getting into when I took it on, despite the very-limited reference-pics that are out there of this guy. This was the one character that nobody wanted to touch for obvious reasons, as building it's been both a revelation & a nightmare at the same time. All of the pics I could find of Frenzy have some really good poses & angles, but ALL of them have certain parts of his body that are hidden and you really can't see what's going on within all the joints, torso-back, inner-torso, just about everything. With that said, I enjoyed the liberty of having to improvise the best I saw fit to make it look the best I could and still enable posability, balance & just overall structural-stability to hold up under it's own weight. A lot of basic-engineering is going into it, and honestly this is the most challenging and complex adult-sized Transformer figure I've ever taken on. Not sure what I'll build next to outdo this one, but this build squashed any fear or doubt I may have had that I could pretty much do anything I put my mind to. I admit it's not a perfect movie-replica down to the last detail, but I did the absolute best I could in the time-frame, resources & ability I have at my disposal. I've been building for 8 years now, but this one was a whole new journey and I really learned a LOT from it. Very humbling! :$
Had some blow-ups of Frenzy printed at the exact size he's gonna be, making parts immensely easier to replicate and eliminate guesswork. Naturally, I chose to build the majority of the body out of aluminum flat-bar & angle of various sizes & thicknesses, roofing-flash sheetmetal, styrene & pvc-plastic sheeting of various thicknesses, nuts, bolts and a butt-load of rivets. Anything that's no already with a stock silver texture like the aluminum bars & flash, I painted with a chrome to match it with some gold highlights here and there on the joints. I'm currently working on the neck & head-configuration, working out the head-placement on the motor that will turn the head by remote, powered by a battery-pack hidden inside his rib-cage/torso. He'll be poseable, have light-up eyes and a remote-turning head function. He'll be around 4'6" tall, about the same height as the movie character. So with all that said, here's the progress-pics starting from back in April up until now. Comments & critiques welcome!
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I knew what I was getting into when I took it on, despite the very-limited reference-pics that are out there of this guy. This was the one character that nobody wanted to touch for obvious reasons, as building it's been both a revelation & a nightmare at the same time. All of the pics I could find of Frenzy have some really good poses & angles, but ALL of them have certain parts of his body that are hidden and you really can't see what's going on within all the joints, torso-back, inner-torso, just about everything. With that said, I enjoyed the liberty of having to improvise the best I saw fit to make it look the best I could and still enable posability, balance & just overall structural-stability to hold up under it's own weight. A lot of basic-engineering is going into it, and honestly this is the most challenging and complex adult-sized Transformer figure I've ever taken on. Not sure what I'll build next to outdo this one, but this build squashed any fear or doubt I may have had that I could pretty much do anything I put my mind to. I admit it's not a perfect movie-replica down to the last detail, but I did the absolute best I could in the time-frame, resources & ability I have at my disposal. I've been building for 8 years now, but this one was a whole new journey and I really learned a LOT from it. Very humbling! :$
Had some blow-ups of Frenzy printed at the exact size he's gonna be, making parts immensely easier to replicate and eliminate guesswork. Naturally, I chose to build the majority of the body out of aluminum flat-bar & angle of various sizes & thicknesses, roofing-flash sheetmetal, styrene & pvc-plastic sheeting of various thicknesses, nuts, bolts and a butt-load of rivets. Anything that's no already with a stock silver texture like the aluminum bars & flash, I painted with a chrome to match it with some gold highlights here and there on the joints. I'm currently working on the neck & head-configuration, working out the head-placement on the motor that will turn the head by remote, powered by a battery-pack hidden inside his rib-cage/torso. He'll be poseable, have light-up eyes and a remote-turning head function. He'll be around 4'6" tall, about the same height as the movie character. So with all that said, here's the progress-pics starting from back in April up until now. Comments & critiques welcome!
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