| BEACHCOMBER
(DIE-CAST)
PROJECT #153
CLASSIFICATION: KITBASH
BASE VEHICLE: MATCHBOX DUNE BUGGY
FIRST APPEARANCE: "DINOBOT ISLAND" PART 1
"Aww, Beachcomber? He's a thinker, not a
fighter."
Comments: Beachcomber was one of
my first die-cast projects that became a full-fledged kitbash, rather than
a simple repaint. I made some extensive modifications to the original
dune buggy toy in order to bring it closer to Beachcomber's appearance, chopping
away at the roll cage, which had pretty much encased the body of the vehicle,
as well as adding headlights and replacing the rear-mounted engine. I
used the same base vehicle for
Sandstorm's buggy mode, though the two
projects ended up looking very different from one another in the end. |
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