#trenttroop

[jedivoodoochile]

Marvel Spotlight on Columbo

Published: Jun 16, 2021 by artist TrentTroop.

[chronivore]

Marvel Spotlight on Columbo

Published: Jun 16, 2021 by artist TrentTroop.

[swittcraft]

I had plans to do an Ecto conversion of Skids since release and Medix saved me a ton of prep time. Much like shifting Artfire over to Ectofire, he was a simple custom with stickers and paint.

Marking my 30th Ghostbusters x Transformers crossover custom, I think he'll fit in just fine with the crew.

All Ghostbuster gear courtesy of the enigmatic @TrentTroop 🤖🚫👻

[colombian-necktie]

Not a real Marvel Spotlight issue. The art is by Trent Troop

https://www.deviantart.com/trenttroop/art/Marvel-Spotlight-on-Columbo-882834550

Another gem from the $1 bin.

[poohpoohtud]

Marvel Spotlight on Columbo

Published: Jun 16, 2021 by artist TrentTroop.

[balok-blog]

Waruder ‘Blue Star’ figure recently updated on Shapeways to allow rhodium-plated version. 

[bricksnclix]

Middle-Age Mutant Day-Job Tortoise: Donald! I ordered this figure from @trenttroop on @shapeways because, look, Donatello's the best of the Ninja Turtles—that's just science—and this grim look into his future is #toorelatable. Go look him up and read the product description for him & his brothers of the same line; they're hilarious. I won't be getting the others—they just don't resonate with me the same way��but it's nice to know I could if I wanted to. If I could only keep one toy or figure on or near my desk, this would have to be it. He knows that Monday-on-a-Tuesday-morning feeling as well as I do. #professionalnerd This was my first #Shapeways order and overall I'm fairly pleased. I sprung for the "coated full-color sandstone" material, and it's interesting to see the little bit on his coffee mug where that coating bubbled & didn't take. As you can see if you swipe left, he's about the same size as the #TMNT #MegaBloks figures. The amount of packing material he came in seems a tad excessive, but that's better than too little I suppose! #shap3dbyme #toyphotography #teenagemutantninjaturtles #middleagemutantdayjobtortoises #trenttroop #theoctavirateforge #prizeinsidebytheoctavirateforge #macro #3dprinting #techsupport #dayjob

[hominivorax-hematovore]

Yes, hello, I am in fact still alive and remembered that tumblr exists. I posted this whole thing elsewhere months ago, but TFCon is coming up and I realized I had never actually posted it here. So.

Custom deluxe class Rescue Bots made from TR figures, because if Hasbro isn't going to give me mainline Generations-styled Rescue Bots, then I'm damn well going to make them myself. I am a grown-ass woman with 0 children and I love Rescue Bots, and I am not at all sorry about it. It's adorable as fuck and it's the one single Transformers series where I could be absolutely sure going in that my favourite characters weren't going to end up dying horribly. Plus it has Steve Blum, which as far as I'm concerned is always a plus. (I do feel like Heatwave is stuck in the wrong show. That is a bot in desperate need of permission to curse who's trapped in a show for toddlers. #LetHeatwaveSayFuck) It's just genuinely a good show with writers who actually care about the characters and whose humor is on point, and honestly, there is some real tragedy in that backstory if you think about it at all. The *very last* crew of a civilian rescue force, lost floating in space for years and years, only revived by chance, coming to an alien planet and discovering that both their home planet and literally all of the other rescue bots are dead and have been for centuries at minimum. They have to adapt to this weird alien world with its weird alien people, and they're not even allowed to go help fight the Decepticons because they're not actually soldiers and they would be dead in approximately five seconds if they ended up anywhere near a real battle. ...Okay, at this point I'm just trying to justify why I even bothered with this project and I don't know why. The other giant alien robot fans here get me, I'm sure. I've been thinking about how much I wanted a good set of RB figures for a while now, and I finally decided that since I had a little bit of cash to spare, if nobody else was going to make them for me I was damn well going to do it myself. I went searching and found www.deviantart.com/trenttroop 's shop on Shapeways selling many, many different faceplates for TR Headmasters, including the RB crew. https://www.shapeways.com/product/F4XBQTASG/rescue-bots-faceplate-four-pack-1?optionId=60329171&li=marketplace(Link to the four pack of faceplates!) Those were an immediate buy, and a starting point for this whole silly, somewhat expensive project. So now I had the line I was going to work with, and the faces I needed for them to be slightly better than "eh, paint him red and call him Heatwave", and now I had to pick bodies for the boys. I then spent a good while poring over images of the figures in the line, waffling on a couple of the options presented, and finally settling on bodies for each of the crew. I ended up getting three out of the four of these guys for an absolute *steal* on offerup-I paid 42 USD *total* for Hardhead, Highbrow and Breakaway, which is only slightly more than *just* the cheapest Breakaway I found for sale on ebay. And then there was Perceptor. Dear friggin' lord, Percy. Why in the name of Primus's shiny metal asshole is he so expensive? The ebay listings for him are *insane*, especially when I was just going to rip him out of any packaging and turn him into someone else. I ended up getting one for 15.40 USD for the figure. From a seller in *Australia*. He cost me 27 dollars extra in postage, and was somehow *still* roughly 20 USD cheaper in total than purchasing the next cheapest Perceptor (60 USD without shipping) from a US seller. After the bots came various bits and pieces I needed, like a ladder and tires for Heatwave and the arm light pieces for Chase. All of these little extra bits were...more expensive than I expected, not gonna lie, because I no longer have the buckets of lego that I used to and buying the specific ones I needed was kind of a pain in the ass. (At least I already had the Autobrand stickers from Toyhax, one less thing to spend money on.) Now, enough about the purchasing of bits, on to the bots! The final list for my RB crew is: Chase-Breakaway Boulder-Hardhead Blades-Highbrow Heatwave-Perceptor Chase's was an easy enough choice, since Breakaway's alt mode was good for Chase and the chest shape fit him very well. All he needed was some paint and for me to make him a lightbar and mount it, pretty much. That's made from some leftover Kreo bits, shaped, sanded, and painted, and mounted with a couple more pieces of Kreo to create a moveable piece that can sit behind his head in root mode. It does unfortunately prevent him from transforming, but I keep all of my bots in root mode anyway, so I'm not terribly bothered. He also got a set of forearm "lights", made from appropriately shaped and painted lego pieces, and then a full repaint. I will say that the arm lights (which end up on his door panels in alt mode) are not show-accurate in shape, but I decided to take a cue from TFA Prowl and make them an actually symmetrical set of lights/blasters instead of whatever is going on with his RB character design. My custom, my rules. I took the main elements of his paintjob directly from the show, of course, and then expanded upon the very basic blocky scheme with details inspired by some other figures as well as some fanart I've seen. I also took the arms and legs off his titan master and sculpted a new headback over what was left, which I also did with the others. (No, I am not taking criticism, constructive or otherwise, on this point. I don't care about the gimmick, the main reason I went with this line was because it would be easiest to do face swaps on.) Boulder's was also pretty easy, as it's not a huge line and I had to work within the deluxe part. Hardhead is close enough in body shape and has treads, so he was a pretty solid base to start from. I started with the intent of adding some extra treads on his arms to make him read more Boulder and less obviously Hardhead, but they ended up looking pretty awful and obviously tacked on even just laid out on the figure, so instead I chose to swap his arms around so that the treads were on the front and then slightly modify them around the elbow joints to give a slightly greater range of motion, and then of course swap the hands over to the new correct sides. (That does mean he can't transform unless I swap them back, but I don't mind that.) I then shaved down the center of his chest completely (went a little too far and ended up with a hole, actually-oops) and added a chopped down piece of Lego windshield and the roof of a cheap dollar store semi truck (the same cheap dollar store semi I used to add a grill to Heatwave) to make his chest more accurate looking and, again, less obviously Hardhead-y, gave him a resculpted headback and then painted him up. I couldn't quite figure out how to give him scoop feet, but I think he's more stable on the feet he's got now, and not *all* of the toy iterations of Boulder actually have the exaggerated scoop feet anyway, so I'm calling him good for now. Blades I waffled a bit more on, because there were a couple options and all of them required me to compromise a bit and get creative. I feel like Misfire or Topspin might possibly also have worked if I'd wanted to go that route (there have been Blades toys where he was inexplicably a non-helo aircraft), but ultimately I went with Highbrow because *helicopter*. I feel like there might be shades of G1 Blades happening in things like the shape of the ankle/tail rotor, but I can't say I'm particularly mad about it. The only modifications I did on him were a shavedown of his faceplate (the sculpt is good, but he was approaching Animated-Sentinel-Prime levels of chinnage-more the fault of the RBA design than the creator of the faceplates), sculpting the headback and adding a curved panel on his chest to round it out a little and cover that weird square bit that seems to serve no real purpose. And then there's Heatwave. I know Perceptor seems perhaps an odd choice at first glance-after all, a tank/microscope is not, in fact, the same thing as a firetruck. I considered Kup or Blurr for the large clear cockpits, but in the end Percy won out as a base because the chest shape was perfect for Heatwave, and having at least that bit be accurate was important to me for having him read correctly. This guy took just a little bit more work than the others, although to be fair, not *much* more. I chopped the grill off of a cheap dollar store semi-truck of the approximately correct size and placed it over the autobrand on his abdomen, and then I removed his microscope and replaced it with a telescoping ladder attached to the whole assembly so that it sits between his shoulders and folds against his back to stick up behind his head as it should. Added some pegs and tires to his ankles and forearms and lego bits to his shoulders for lightbars and then I, once again, resculpted the headback and then painted him up properly. This Heatwave is absolutely allowed to say fuck, Hasbro be damned. Annnd that's it. I spent probably way too much money making this happen, for no purpose other than my own amusement. I hope that my making this post at least somewhat justifies the amount of money, time, and physical/mental energy I put into customizing these guys. I'm under no illusions that they're perfect, but they're mine and I like how they turned out.

[bmogtoys]

Now up on the Shapeways Store, we’ve got MetroPlex’s T-Cog, scaled for deluxe and scout-scale Transformers figures. 

This version of the T-Cog is just under 21mm in diameter, and features a 3mm port at the top and a 5mm peg at the bottom, available alone or in a set of two!

[dynoguard]

If you want to support the DynoGuard, reblogs, comments, and likes both here and on the other social networks really hep us out. 

There’s also a patreon, and $5 and up supporters get access to the pages in double the resolution, both with and without bubbles, so you can see all of Evan’s glorious art unobscrued!

[deepdreamnights]

Finger Gobblin’ Good

Support Art Like and Unlike this, Through my Patreon:

www.patreon.com/trenttroop

[itswalky]

PHARMA!

Paint by @cheetimus Face and chainsaws by @TrentTroop

https://www.shapeways.com/product/L6J6R9YS3/pharma-saw-weapon … 

https://www.shapeways.com/product/QE566C8ES/pharma-faceplate-titans-return-compatible?optionId=60327502 …

[therobotmonster]

Inspired by A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, obiviously.

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Oh, and I’ve got a Deviantart. Follows and faves alwys welcome ;)

[demandezglassjoe]

Euh...

Hmm.