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I got work done on Bumblebee today and he's starting to really come along. eee~ I'm so excited!



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So I found three super cheap revoltech Hot Rods on ebay the other night, which we'll be customizing to Ironhide, Wheeljack, and Ratchet. I'm also considering grabbing another Hot Rod to turn into Jazz.

So I grabbed the extra head that our Hot Rod came with (Why does Hod Rod come with an extra visored face???) and some sculpy and tried my hand at sculpting a Jazz head. I got his little side helm things done and put him in the toaster oven on very low heat to harden what I'd done. and... well... I discovered that Revoltech's plastic has a very low melting point.

As I had put the head face-down, his nose melted flat into his face and a crease from the foil he was sitting on gave him a butt-chin. The overall effect is quite.... derp.

This very important discovery means Bolts and I picked up resin sculpting clay that air dries! :D

Also, since the plastic is so very reactive to heat, I decided to mod the molded-for-Starscream faces that I thought Thundercracker and Skywarp were stuck with.

Using a pin heated by a lighter, I was able to give Thundercracker a kinda grimacey face super easily. Skywarp was much more of a challenge, for some reason. But I was able to wrangle his face to a :| face.. He looks a little more... blank.. than I wanted him too, but that works, right? XD

I very nearly ruined Skywarp's face once or twice and pulled on a fair bit of skill and a shit-ton of luck. So. Um. I'm very glad Skywarp still has a face. :D I really don't want to be forced to buy another Starscream. X[

So I royally messed up my back right tire on Chainsaw (my car) last night on the way home from work, hit this big chunk of black metal that came out of nowhere. Spent an hour waiting for the dude geico called to show up to help me put on the spare 'cause I'm a wuss (and also this was my first flat ever). Got home at about 4 in the morning but got up again fairly early (lol 10am) to take Chainsaw to the tire place. I went ahead and got all new tires on him cause I put 300 to 500 miles on him every week and the tires he came with were prolly over due to be replaced anyways. Much good-natured joking and TF3-related kibitzing was done with the guys who worked there once they saw my plates.

But right next to the tire place was the Toys R Us! So I waddled in and picked up the new WFC Optimus for justbolts and a tiny tiny movieverse Ravage for myself. He's terribly adorable and is now ducktaped to Chainsaw's dashboard. :) the loop of tape gives him enough looseness to lean with every turn I made. It's beyond cute~

But Bolts has also been looking for WFC Bumblebee, so I waddled in to the Target next to the Toys R Us and found him for two dollars cheaper than the Generations toys at the other store. Damn, couldda saved two bucks on OP. :[

After dinner, Bolts opened her toys and my GF decided that she wanted to participate, so we all sat around and I pulled up funny things on Youtube (This Thew guy has amazingly hilarious reviews for TF toys <3), GF transformed Optimus and Bumblebee to their alt-modes and Bolts finally, after seven or so months, put poor movieverse Sideswipe in his robot mode for the first time. Poor bugger had been sitting in his alt since she got him. XD

GF was throughly disappointed with Optimus, however. When she finished, she declared "He's not a semi!?" and disgustedly tossed him to the side once his not-a-semi-ness was explained to her. XD