Alt.Steeljaw from Alt. Ravage 2.0

[SamiWCP]

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x41/SamiWCP/Steeljawbeast.jpg
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Not a major update as of yet..But the Ravage 2.0 is all set and painted..I've used the Krylon metallic gold finish. I'll give it a few days to dry before I start to put him together again. Now as you can see, most of the body is gold. I'll be doing the forearms in silver..That leaves the interior of the car pieces..I'm still debating on what color to use for those. I'm thinking either a solid brown, or maybe a metallic copper like color. It'd go for the seats, dash, and the car skeleton, or his chest/stomach part..What do you guys think? Which color should I go with? And, like they did with Rumble, giving him some reference to his old tape deck..And ideas on ways to make this one more of a throw back to the gen-1 tape version?

[GMfan]

I dunno how you are on making additions to a mold but if you could add a "mane" to make him more Lion like. If not more of the lighter coloured yellow behind the eyes could work but leaving the ears the main gold colour.

[Dark Rage]

You can add on removeable Wings to the cannons in reference to the G1 style.

Maybe something from a junker aircraft-vehicle transformer, possibly the Armada/Energon/Cybertron toy line since those aren't earth-style airplanes.

[GMfan]

As long as these additions work with the transformation though, I can't be the best judge since I don't have the mold.

[SamiWCP]

One suggestion was simple enough..Turning the doors up to make it look like his wing type things. It's not perfect, as the wings were on his back legs if I remember correctly, but, it is something. The doors and legs are both on the same ball joint type connector, so, it is also possible to pop them off and switch them out..

[Dark Rage]

Just out of curiousity, is that first picture w/ the assembled one a picture of a completed repaint, or has it just been photoshopped to reflect what the proposed paint scheme is?

The first pic just looks like it was painted silver, then painted over again with clear yellow, since it's definitely brighter than your work in progress. Probably just photoshopped though.

[jourdo]

I like it, but I'm with the others that a mane and wings would be a nice addition. Although, I'm not sure how you would pull that off.

[SamiWCP]

Yeah, that's just a photoshopped pic, to get a working idea.

[GMfan]

Could always use putty for the mane and paint over just be reaaaly careful when moving the head...

[Dark Rage]

I like it, but I'm with the others that a mane and wings would be a nice addition. Although, I'm not sure how you would pull that off.

One could always make a foldable/transformable mane to go in the seats of the Jaguar, but I think Sami is pretty tired from this repaint already.

But yeah, if you ever do another Steeljaw, I think the Clear yellow over Silver will be a more accurate/brighter repaint than Gold.

[SamiWCP]

I was thinking more something like fuzzy seat covers, or a throw blanket for the back seat, that can come out and attach to make the mane..?

[GMfan]

Or an emergency blanket in the trunk?

[TTT]

I'm not sure what to suggest, if anything, I'm sure you'll pull off another great custom.....:cool:
Did Steeljaw even have a mane ?

[SamiWCP]

Well, here's a little tease as to how it will look alt mode wise..
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/ragingnin77/100_1178.jpg
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[Nemesis Predaking]

Looking good Sami, Glad to see your still doing killer customs

[GMfan]

Beautiful.....you know you are loaded when you have a gold Jag X-K8 :P

[plowking]

At first I didnt think a gold Jag would look good...but Sami, you proved me wrong on that one...the paint looks great!

As for the interior color...I dunno...maybe black?

And the fabric as the mane sounds good to me :)

[SamiWCP]

WEll, the interior is drying.. Iwent with a solid brown, which needs another layer or so, the seats look like brown leather with the black kinda showing through some..The dash though will stay black.

[SamiWCP]

Well, almost done..Few touch ups and some minor details..He sohuld be done this weekend..PS, I think I'll wipe the yellow off his chrome rockets..it just didn't work like I hoped it would.
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/ragingnin77/100_1185.jpg
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[SamiWCP]

So, overnight I came up with this idea--Rick, the guy who commissioned this piece, had mentioned a few times as to wanting wings on the back legs with the missles..Now, not being one for actual kitbashing..I did get this idea here--I saw the Energon Galvatron wings on his back, and they would work perfectly..So, I cut them off, trimmed, and there is actually 2 holdes in the mold that fit perfectly onto the ball joint. Here's where it's at now,
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/ragingnin77/100_1191.jpg
And once I can paint it all silver, and glue them together, this is what I'm hoping the finished piece will look like..
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/ragingnin77/100_1192.jpg

[Dark Rage]

Looks Pretty awesome for a kitbash, although I prefer the gold wings and cannon more, no comment from Rick?

[SamiWCP]

All done:)
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/ragingnin77/100_1207.jpg
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I decided his face needed more paint, so I went with a real type color set up of a lions head..The green eyes get that black intense eye liner, the nose is black, his snout is silver--I was going to do white, but that just looked out of place--His lower jaw is silver and he has black lips.
His giant missles got that chromed paint to it, and they match almost perfectly. I used anepoxy to put them together--they're really quite solid. But he has to remove them if he plans on going in car mode. They can be held on by either portion of the missles/wings.
Over all, I really like the way this guy came out.

[TTT]

Holy FRIG !
That's awesome !
That face is too good to be true....11 out of 10 ! ! !

[dak]

very nice! turned out great! the silver does give more of a lion look to him.

[SamiWCP]

Yeah, the silver really did it for him, the flat 1 color of gold was a bit much, but with the face detailed, I think it really brought him all together as a lion.

Thanks:)

[Pascal]

Leather seats! Awesome!

[jourdo]

Holy crap!!! Those little touches to the face made a huge difference. Great work there!

[GMfan]

That looks like yellow lion from Voltron :O

Great job on yet another piece.

[Autovolt 127]

SHINY!!!!!!!!

[SamiWCP]

I keep getting Voltron references..And yeah, it does have a leather seat type look to it, much more so up close instead of in pics.

[GMfan]

Voltron references....what voltron references?

Dynatherms connected! Infracells up! Megathrusters are GO! LETS GO VOLTRON FORCE

:P couldn't resist...

[evil_ivotron]

Looks sharpe, good job.

[Tech Spec]

I can dig it! Nice work!