#armada star

[shelfformers]

So some stuff has happend. The shelf has been moved and the Starscreams have claimed it once more

Two new screamers have also joined the shrine, roster call.

Sparkly ghost screams and Cyberverse.

The others are chilling, but trine starscream as usual is pointing fingers and shouting, ghost sure is being dramatic with his sparkly self

[thescreaminghat]

transformers armada ep 39 funnies (spoilers):

imagine you're a decepticon stuck in a 4 - 10 million year war because your boss cant get over a red semi and when u turn around to report the good news of optimal's death u find the guy in charge crying out his name like this

what do u even do at that point. like the guy you work for literally won't shut up about "destroying optimus" and "making the autobitches suffer" but turns around and pulls the pikachu surprised face when his plan works out for once?

u see the autobot SIC jetfire wailing his heart out (a normal reaction to seeing your leader and father figure getting vaporized into space dust) but then YOUR BOSS is ALSO doing the SAME shit?? (at this point u quickly check to make sure the decepticon insignia on your armour is still there, just in case u were autobots this whole time or smth). a few months ago the whole team went through the painful experience of witnessing this guy fistfight your big bro the decepticon SIC (starscream) for no reason because apparently "public humiliation builds character". now mister "i don't even care about optimistic prime at all. not even a little bit" is depressed because the post-death clarity made him realize he actually does care, like an idiot. everything is super awkward and everyone can feel the tension in the air and you're all stuck on a ship headed back for cybertron, which is still in the middle of a civil war. who is "morale" and where can u find her

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: Armada - Raider I Class Corvette (2016 Championship Alternate Art Ver) by Anthony Devine

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Star Wars: Armada - Victory Class Star Destroyer Expansion Pack - Advanced Concussion Missiles by Ben Zweifel

[atomicdarc]

More like starscream is the father figure-

I always find cute how minicons, pretty small beings, sees cybetronians who find them and "adopt" them as their father figures, but honestly I think that it is not so explored as it is with Starscream, his relationship with the Starsaber is adorable. Man is father of a sword. I remember he asking if the Minicons where ok when he used a lot of their power.

[oldschoolfrp]

With yesterday’s news from Atomic Mass Games that they are ending production of Star Wars X-Wing and Armada, it is a good time to remember 2 truths that many gamers overlook:

All games based on licensed properties require licences that cost money up front to obtain and more money over time to continue to keep active. From day one, publication of any licensed game should be expected to end during the tail end of the game’s profitability, when income dips below the cost of the license.

There’s no such thing as a ‘dead game,’ as long as you own the game and still want to play. This is especially true for miniature collections.

Licensed games are under pressure to earn money quickly before shutting down, and often have a production life much shorter than successful games based on original, generic, or historical concepts. The X-Wing games had a remarkably successful run considering the economic challenges.

The most notable exception to the rule is the Star Fleet line of games which relied on a very generous and open-ended license, apparently with no expiration date. This has been attributed to Paramount believing Star Trek was a ‘dead property’ in the 1970s. They made an agreement with author Franz Joseph which gave Franz Joseph Design the rights to everything in his Star Fleet Technical Manual. FJD was able to license those rights to Armadillo Design Bureau/Task Force Games at a relatively low cost.

Since then other rights holders have been more careful. When Grenadier made the first official Star Wars miniatures for West End Games’ line of products in the late 80s (above), it was Lucas Film Limited’s initials that appeared on every figure base, clearly reminding us who remained in charge.

As for ‘dead’ games, I still own copies of WEG’s out-of-print games and can play with Grenadier’s figures that I already collected. I also can use those figures with any other rules I choose, which is a major benefit of collecting miniatures for a favorite theme. Many of the new ‘miniature agnostic’ indie games available as PDFs or zines encourage digging out old figures and returning them to the table.

A reasonable counterpoint for gamers in the US is that there are few independent clubs here, where organized public play depends on game stores willing to set space aside for tables and priority is given to games the store can sell. I would not be surprised to see an immediate end to X-Wing events at those stores that were still hosting leagues and tournaments.

But for those willing to take ownership of their own fun, you might find some good deals on spaceships in clearance sales.

[princesstarfire1234]

Commission for Hazard Zoose on discord!!

This one has been in the works for a whopping 8 months, and I still have to get a recolored variant for it done aha... nonetheless, I had a ton of fun making this and Zoose has been one of the nicest clients I've ever had and a pleasure to work with! They're deco for Hazard Armada Optimus Prime fuckin bangs as well!

I've still got a bunch of stuff to do and finals is coming up as well, but I always do enjoy getting to post finished comms and taking some load off my back lolz. Hopefully I'll be able to post that one Scavs raffle comm soon aha

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This comm went for 100$ (2 pieces, which includes the recolored variant I mentioned, 50$ per full body fully rendered piece). If anyone's interested in a comm from me, check out my pinned post for details!

Here's a version without the text under the cut:

[fymeetrasurik]

Lots to say about Ahsoka but for now, I wanna talk about Thrawn. After Andor I knew this would be a problem, because it was a problem back in Rebels too.

Thrawn isn't built for these stories. During Rebels, they just put a mask of competency on him while still handing him L after L. "These losses are all part of my plan" "The rebels escaped but I meant for that to happen" ect ect. Just thwarted by the scooby doo gang. Cause let's be honest the rebels crew aren't exactly strategists.

Then in Andor, we get competence. Not brilliance mind you like Syril was still a buffoon. But the ISB came of as so threatening just because they were able to do their jobs without slipping on banana peels. We've now seen how dangerous the empire can be when they crack down and try.

But we're talking Thrawn. Whatever the ISB are? He should be playing in a different league. Competency vs sheer genius. I mean after all this entire season was about how dire things would be if Thrawn made it back to the galaxy.

And what do we get? "Oh these are acceptable losses, oh they won this round but that showed me their flaws. Oh we don't want to waste our precious resources now do we" Proceeds to throw away a few dozen troopers and a bunch of tie fighters. It's the same as it was in rebels. A mask of false threat over just another imperial.

If I'm a normal person watching this show, and have no concept of rebels, much less the heir to the empire trilogy, I can't imagine they get the sense that Thrawn is a big deal at all.

[delicateartisantrash]

Simping Club

Theoretically this should work now! I don't know why Tumblr deleted literally everything i wrote and set up initially so hopefully this time my settings stick around.

This is an 18+ community just like my smutty stories are.

edit To add this link: https://www.tumblr.com/communities/simping-sparks

https://www.tumblr.com/join/jCpphTj0

[metalchocobo21]

Obari Prime!

Wingblade Optimus Prime with Star Saber doing the Obari pose cus I freaking can.

I've been wanting to do this for some time now, among other things with this model. I just gotta do some things with the other outfits, and then I'm posting this on Bepis and Pixiv for all of you to use. And I'll hopefully get the other models done, hopefully before the year ends.

[scribe-of-hael]

New poll

*When I say WAR FOR CYBERTRON I mean the TRILOGY NOT the video game

Thats just dbz trunks va and I find that so funny

[shelfformers]

I took Baystar down for a moment and next I knew it. New stuff is going on.

Starscream what are you doing with Optimus?

Everyone is having different kind of reactions to this

Skywarp is shocked. Thundercracker seems oddly unmoved by this.

And blackout is as usual, hiding.

[thescreaminghat]

Watching Tf Cybertron atm and Starscream feels so different than his Armada and Energon counterparts---first of all, the guy is built different, first ep he launches himself out of a warp gate at autobot hq, fights 5 members of the main cast at once, says "bon voyage 😜" after sending Landmine flying towards the black hole slowly devouring cybertron, refuses to elaborate, and leaves. Turns out he was just a distraction for megatron?? He could have taken out everyone the way he was fighting, and in subsequent missions he's still a menace. Megatron has like, zero decepticons at this point so starscream (and sometimes thundercracker, who is significantly smaller in alt mode cuz for some reason he decided to scan a regular earth jet instead of keeping his cytronian alt mode like screamer, who probably didn't even bother solely because of pride) is the only one who he can regularly count on. Because it usually ends up being a 2v6 starscream ends up fighting optimus sometimes, and he's actually not bad! instead of a default null ray he has fucking null cannons and he just starts blasting at the guy. even though he cant outright beat him, he can also solo prime in 1v1 hand to hand combat while shit talking the entire time. He cuts through op's super mode attack like it's nothing. He's strong enough to stop both optimus and vector prime from escaping just by grabbing them. AND he's still a smart, endearingly conniving bastard. There's also this one scene where he's fighting optimus, and when they're at risk of being discovered by humans he goes "let's call it a night. You're a lousy dancer anyways 😒" like what the fuck was that. Was he flirting with prime?? Bro literally could have said anything else but chose something so suggestive (to me). This mf is literally perfect in every way

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: Armada - Imperial Raider Expansion Pack - Rapid Reload by Mariusz Gandzel

[the-bonereaders-library]

finished up my arbites tonight and also got my 3d printer working again after quite a while. first thing I decided to print were some C-ROC cruisers for my separatist fleet now that they have access to them, and I didn't want to use the empire gozanti carrier models, and I'm really happy how they turned out for a first print, tho I might try again

bonus, here they are with the rest of the CIS fleet on a very messy work station

[reversemoon255]

FansHobby MB-26 The Saber Team

I don't talk about it here, but I've actually been buying a lot of Transformers lately. I've been doing mini-reviews of them and a few other things over on the Twibblies for a bit now on Sundays. Let me know if you'd be interested in my doing mini-reviews, because if there's no interest, I'm probably not going to do it.

But I have also gotten a few bigger Transformers and adjacent toys that I plan on doing full reviews of (such as this one and eventually the depicted TFLE Armada Optimus).

The Good: I had the old Star Saber set as a kid, and these guys definitely feel like improved versions of those designs. A lot more posability, they hold together as a sword better, and they're 5mm compatible, so any toy (like official Transformers) that uses that hand size can wield it.

And that packaging is a great cherry on top. So cute '_')b

The Bad: These guys use a lot of translucent plastic, and there are places where I'm worried about eventual breakages. I get they use it because the originals did, but I would have preferred solid plastic.

For how well most of the Star Saber comes together, it's a bit of a letdown that not-Sonar (the shuttle) has loose legs as the handle. It would have been nice if they locked somewhere.

Lastly, while the Saber Team have the old style of Minicon ports so they can interact with both the original Armada toys and FansHobby's recreations, it would have been nice if they came with some sort of adapter to make them 5mm compatible so you can attach them to the modern Legacy Armada toys.

Overall, it's a good, fun set, even if Legacy Armada Optimus' hands have that thing that prevent it from properly holding the handle. I have a few minor qualms, but they're cheap enough (when it comes to fan-made toys) that they're easily overlooked. I really like Minicons, so if FansHobby does any more Minicon sets, especially the combining ones, I'll probably pick them up, too.