Zobovor's Kitbashes, Customs, & Repaints
TRANSFORMERS G1
| HUMANS | BEAST WARS |
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | STAR
WARS | DARKWING DUCK |
VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS |
TALES OF TORLYNN |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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"And wait'll you see the new throne I built!
It's really
special."
This page features links to pages filled with
images of over 200 toys, sculptures, models, and other collectibles that
I've repainted, customized, kitbashed, or in some cases designed entirely
from scratch. Most of my projects were inspired by characters from
Transformers or other media that either haven't been released
commercially, or the versions that do exist don't meet my admittedly exacting
standards. A few of these are characters of my own creation that I
just decided would be really nice to have in three-dimensional form.
The following list of projects is broken down
first by genre and then sub-classified by what kind of projects they are.
I've listed them alphabetically, but have also included the date when
each project was completed. A few of the names listed below are
placeholders for projects I'm in the middle of working on or plan to get
to eventually (or I've already finished, but the page is offline for
maintenance). If you see a hyperlink, though, the project is completed.
I've given up trying to keep track of the file sizes, so be warned
that many of these pages are image-intensive.
Note: I've been maintaining this
page for over five years, and in the process I've gone through four computers,
three digital cameras, and a partridge in a pear tree. I'm in the process
of taking new pictures of all my old projects and converting the HTML pages
to the new format, but it's going to take time to get to them all. In
the meantime, if you see this icon
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with new photos. If you see this icon
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REPAINTS |
PVC | DIE-CAST |
KITBASHES | CYBCON |
STICKERS
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Halloween
Costume
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My first attempt at building a Transformers
costume, this prize-winning representation of Soundwave as he appears in
the G1 cartoon includes a rifle and shoulder cannon with laser light
effects!
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Repaints/Customs
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Sometimes all it takes is a simple paint job
to improve a toy, while others only require minor physical modifications.
Most of the projects below were the subjects of cosmetic, superficial
changes.
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PVC Figurines
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Takara opened the door with their SCF line
of figures, and Hasbro followed in their footsteps with the domestic Heroes
of Cybertron series. Many of the PVC repaints I've done are
representations of the generic Decepticon jets from the G1
cartoon.
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Die-Cast Vehicles
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A collection of 1:64 cars, along with other
assorted vehicles n' things, repainted to look like Transformers from the
cartoon show.
This
link will take you to a sub-page containing links to over 100 individual
projects.
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Kitbashes/Sculptures
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Sometimes, toys need a little more than a facelift.
These projects are representations of characters built from toys that
have been modified extensively, or rebuilt almost in their
entirety.
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CybCon Toys
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The Cybertronian Conference is an unofficial
Transformers convention held annually in Washington state and hosted by Greg
Gaub and Richard Mistron. Traditionally, the exclusive toys have been
repaints or modified versions of existing Hasbro toys.
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Sticker
Sets
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Toys that I've customized using only
consumer-applied labels of my own design, rather than paints and elbow grease.
Delta Star of reprolabels.com
printed these for me, and many of them were based on his existing
designs.
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The human characters in the Transformers universe
got seriously short-changed. Despite their importance to the story
of both the Marvel Comics stories and the G1 cartoon series, only an incredibly
small number of them have ever been produced as toys.
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Comic Book Characters
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Animated Series Characters
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I've also done a handful of projects based
on characters from this popular spin-off of the original Transformers series.
Most of them are representations of the characters from the show, but
a few are imaginings of my own design.
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Repaints
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Kitbashes/Sculptures
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I developed a strong fondness for the original
Ninja Turtles cartoon series and toy line, back in the day, and many of my
TMNT projects are attempts to make the action figures look more like their
animated counterparts.
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Die-Cast Vehicles
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Foot
Cruiser
NEW!
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Neutrino Star Cruisers
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Turtle Blimp
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Turtle Van
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Repaints
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Kitbashes
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My fondness for Star Wars is largely
due to the two mechanical heroes of the films, C-3PO and R2-D2, and as a
result most of my projects here revolve around those two lovable
droids.
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Episode I: The Phantom
Menace
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Episode II: Attack of the
Clones
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C-3PO
(Conjectural Unfinished Version)
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Droids
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C-3PO
(Animated Version)
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R2-D2
(Animated Version)
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Boba Fett (Animated Version)
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Episode IV: A New Hope
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Episode V: The Empire Strikes
Back
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Episode VI: Return of the
Jedi
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"I am the terror that flaps in the night! I
am the lawyer who prematurely cancels your licensing agreement!" Here
we have painted figures and sculptures representing characters from
Darkwing Duck who never got official mass-produced toys in their
likeness.
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Repaints
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Negaduck
(Galvanized Version)
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Negaduck
(Negaverse Version)
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Negaduck and Darkwing Duck (PVC
Figures)
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Kitbashes/Sculptures
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There are times when the characters in a game
manage to surpass the limitations of the medium, when they become far more
meaningful than the collection of colorful pixels that comprise their existence.
(It is at this point that I strongly recommend seeking professional
help.) In other news, just for fun, here are some projects I did based
on characters appearing in video games.
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Final Fantasy II
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Super Mario Sunshine
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Super-Deformed Luigi and Shadow Mario
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These are projects based on characters that
my sister and I created for a role-playing campaign, which I've since
appropriated for eventual use in stories/comics of a similar genre.
Obviously, I made these more for my own amusement than anything else,
but I thought they were nifty enough to share with the rest of the universe,
so here they are.
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Kitbashes
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Leftovers? Perish the thought! These
are simply one-shot projects that don't fit into any of the above
categories.
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Repaints
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Kitbashes/Sculptures
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Model Kits
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Store-bought kits that I assembled and painted
and, in at least a couple of cases, made some structural improvements
to.
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C-3PO
from Star Wars: A New Hope
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R2-D2
from Star Wars: A New Hope
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Robot
B-9 from the TV series Lost in Space
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V.I.N.CENT.
from Disney's The Black Hole
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