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Published: 2013-01-12 22:44:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 7027; Favourites: 99; Downloads: 98
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I thought I was just going to be doing a few additions to Rampage here for accuracy, but it turned into a 12 hour job...On my Rampage, the red transmetal paint was chipping so bad I had to scrape the rest off and redo it. Then I decided to mask off the red X design on his crab back and spray some blue over it to get a purple fade effect. I like how that came out, but in contrast with the claws, it doesn't look very purple.
Then I came up with a way to make his crab legs look more accurate in robot mode by drilling the holes that his arms peg into for beast mode all the way through, adding a 1/2 inch 5mm peg in the holes so they stick out of the sides, and cutting the arm pegs shorter so they can still peg into what little hole is left in beast mode. With the new pegs on the sides of beast mode and the screws that hold his beast mode legs on his robot arms removed, I can take off the legs and attach them to his shoulders with the other 2 legs so he looks right and has better arm articulation. All 4 pegs were thickened and then sanded to fit tightly so the legs do not fall off easily in any mode.
Then I painted him up a bit more and here's what I ended up with.
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I wish I could buy a Rampage and send him to you for customization. (I can't paint well...)
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Why can't you? I do take commissions.
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That old house... I think the old lady we lived next to did that to spy on us. She was the spying and gossip type of trouble making turd neighbor.
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Hah nope those tracks are a pain in the butt.
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Agreed, never did have him in vehicle mode. It was too confusing, and even when I did do it right, it just undid itself. So I made the tracks into catch vines or something XD
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I wont lie to ya but that looks pretty accurate
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I've been told bleach will break apart the metal laminate on these figures and on models. I used it on my daughter's fire truck and on a Rockman X model with varying degrees of success. It bubbles it off and does no damage, but the reaction requires a large amount of bleach for a perfect removal.
Good work as always on the Beast Wars figures!
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Protoform X was the most phsycotic Predacon, aside from Inferno of course.
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awsome custom i like the mod you did on the arms its looks much more accurate.rampage was must diffinetly my favourite beastwars predacons
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OH! I had this transformer when i was a kid! I remember was on Beast Wars, wow.
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O_O oh wow! That's cool! I never knew there was a crab.
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Heh, he was a regular character in the show from season 2 on.
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hmmm...really? O_o? I don't remember him, of course I haven't seen Beat Wars in a very, very, long time.
Rinox was always my favorite character though. ^^ Him and the Cheetah.
Still crustacians are cool. ^^
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I remember this was my first ever ultra class transformer, and one of the few metallic ones to not have any paint chip off.
It's too bad you took off the legs from his arms, if you turn and straighten them they make cool sword like weapons to battle Depth Charge with.
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Well they still peg into the original spots on his arm, so they can still do that, but I'd way rather have them on his shoulders like in the show.
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I love it. This is my favorite Transformer toy of all time, and you did a fantastic job!
- Alty
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Thanks man! He is a favorite of mine too.
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