Dubcustomz
New Member
Hello everyone, im new here and just thought id show you something im working on.
I got inspired to join up after seeing tek2graphics' awesome BTTF DeLorean build thread, so heres what im working on:
Im big into modeling and im also a huge Transformers nut, recently i had a dream (rather randomly so as well) that i bought a DeLorean (one of my fave cars) and that got me thinking....what if i could turn a DeLorean into a Transformer? Or, even cooler, the BTTF DeLorean time machine into a Transformer?
So i did some brainstorming, bought a BTTF part 3 1/24 scale time machine kit, a 1/24 scale BTTF part 1 die cast metal kit and pulled out an old junk Transformer from my junk bin to use as a base.
The process is quite a tricky one and is known in the Transformer customizing community (yes, there is one, its quite huge in fact) as a "re-shell".
Basically you take a Transformer that turns into a car, cut off all the old car parts (in this case a 2011 Camaro) and place your replacement car shell over the remaining body parts (usually just a robotic skeleton at this point) and then cut the new car shell to fit and glue the pieces on.
Yeah..its quite complicated so i'll shut up now and just show you the pics.
I'll update as a go along. Im hoping to make this as detailed as possible (like tek2graphics's build) with working LED's to boot.
I got inspired to join up after seeing tek2graphics' awesome BTTF DeLorean build thread, so heres what im working on:
Im big into modeling and im also a huge Transformers nut, recently i had a dream (rather randomly so as well) that i bought a DeLorean (one of my fave cars) and that got me thinking....what if i could turn a DeLorean into a Transformer? Or, even cooler, the BTTF DeLorean time machine into a Transformer?
So i did some brainstorming, bought a BTTF part 3 1/24 scale time machine kit, a 1/24 scale BTTF part 1 die cast metal kit and pulled out an old junk Transformer from my junk bin to use as a base.
The process is quite a tricky one and is known in the Transformer customizing community (yes, there is one, its quite huge in fact) as a "re-shell".
Basically you take a Transformer that turns into a car, cut off all the old car parts (in this case a 2011 Camaro) and place your replacement car shell over the remaining body parts (usually just a robotic skeleton at this point) and then cut the new car shell to fit and glue the pieces on.
Yeah..its quite complicated so i'll shut up now and just show you the pics.
I'll update as a go along. Im hoping to make this as detailed as possible (like tek2graphics's build) with working LED's to boot.