I just saw the Transformers movie...any kits available?

Lufbery wrote:

Hi all, I noticed a week or so ago at my local hobby shop that Revell has a pretty nice-looking Revell 2009 concept Camaro in 1/25th scale. It's a Snaptite model. I'm thinking that it would be a good basis for scratchbuilding the movie Bumblebee. [:) ] Regards,

The AMT one had been out for a while and also have rather good details.  The really weird thing is that the body shell in my hand feels relatively thicker than the other car kits... 

Cool! I wasn't aware of the AMT kit.

Frankly, I'm not sure I'm up to scratchbuilding the robot body, even with the car kit available as a basis.

Still, I'm intriqued by the idea of making transformers robot figures using model vehicle kits.

Regards,

Lufbery wrote:

Frankly, I'm not sure I'm up to scratchbuilding the robot body, even with the car kit available as a basis.

Scratching the movie version would be quite an endeavour!  Those guys are far more complicated than they look!  Once you take a real good look at all the details, you'll be boggled!

Prince of Styrene II wrote:

Lufbery wrote: Frankly, I'm not sure I'm up to scratchbuilding the robot body, even with the car kit available as a basis. Scratching the movie version would be quite an endeavour!  Those guys are far more complicated than they look!  Once you take a real good look at all the details, you'll be boggled!

It would be quite a feat! Still, the guy who made one from paper is (link posted above) is an inspiration. Presumably, most of Bumblebee's body, at least the yellow parts, come from the car's body. Still, it would be a lot of work.

However, my dream scratchbuilding Transformers project is to design and build an Autobot Cessna 172. I'd like to go for the movie look where the parts of the vehicle are more subtlely distributed over the robots body than the generation 1 robots I remember from when I was a kid.

Regards, 

Prince of Styrene II wrote:

The movie version?!  Now that I'd like to see!

Yes, it's going to be made per the movie version. I've seen a scratch built BB that is really quite astounding, especially considering it was made from cereal boxes. 

KirkTrekModeler wrote:

I've seen a scratch built BB that is really quite astounding, especially considering it was made from cereal boxes.

Yeah. I posted a link to that further up in this thread. [:D ]

Lufbery wrote:

KirkTrekModeler wrote: I've seen a scratch built BB that is really quite astounding, especially considering it was made from cereal boxes.    Yeah. I posted a link to that further up in this thread. [:D ]

Right, but from what I understand that was the inspiration for this person to decide to do the model. :) 

KirkTrekModeler wrote:

Lufbery wrote:  KirkTrekModeler wrote: I've seen a scratch built BB that is really quite astounding, especially considering it was made from cereal boxes.    Yeah. I posted a link to that further up in this thread. [:D ] Right, but from what I understand that was the inspiration for this person to decide to do the model. :)

No kidding? Well, it's certainly inspirational.

If anyone is looking for good pictures of the robots from the film, the lead robot designer has a whole bunch of high-quality digital images on his on-line portfolio.

Regards, 

Lufbery wrote:

KirkTrekModeler wrote:  Lufbery wrote:  KirkTrekModeler wrote: I've seen a scratch built BB that is really quite astounding, especially considering it was made from cereal boxes.    Yeah. I posted a link to that further up in this thread. [:D ] Right, but from what I understand that was the inspiration for this person to decide to do the model. :)  No kidding? Well, it's certainly inspirational. If anyone is looking for good pictures of the robots from the film, the lead robot designer has a whole bunch of high-quality digital images on his on-line portfolio. Regards,

Thanks, I'll definitely pass that on.