|
 Kitbashes and Repaints
TRANSFORMERS G1
| HUMANS | BEAST WARS |
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES | STAR
WARS | KNIGHT RIDER |
DISNEY/PIXAR CARS | DARKWING
DUCK | SMURFS | FINAL FANTASY
II | TALES OF TORLYNN |
MISCELLANEOUS
"And wait'll you see the new throne I built!
It's really special."
Welcome to Zobovor's Kitbashes and Repaints.
This web page features links to the many three-dimensional projects
I've been creating for over ten years. Here you will find links to
sub-pages showcasing over 400 different action figures, die-cast vehicles,
model kits, and other collectibles that I've modified meet my own specifications.
Some of these are simple repaints, while others have
been substantially rebuilt or redesigned, while others still have been
constructed entirely from scratch. Most of my projects were inspired
by characters from Transformers, Star Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
or other media. Many of these projects are representations of
characters or likenesses that have never been released commercially by the
official toy companies, though I've also done plenty of characters whose
existing, official versions have failed to meet meet my admittedly exacting
standards. A select 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 categorized
first by license and then broken down by sub-group. I've listed them
alphabetically, but 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.
As of late 2009 I began the task of redesigning
the formatting for these pages to make them compatible with different
screen resolutions. I also took the opportunity to make screen captures
for these pages with new screen capture software to replace many of the cartoon
and movie stills taken using my low-tech approach (using my digital
camera to take a picture of the computer screen). All redesigned
and updated pages have been marked with the appropriate icons.
Some folks have reported issues with
Fortunecity's advertising blocking the text or images on some web browsers.
If you're having difficulty viewing pages on this site, write me
an e-mail and I can send
you the images you want in a zip file.
ICON KEY |
 |
This project has been updated with new screen
captures. |
 |
This project includes a downloadable movie. |
 |
There is an easter egg hidden on this
page. |
 |
This page is currently down
for repairs. |
 |
This item is available for sale. Inquire
by e-mail. |
NEW! |
Indicates the newest additions to this page. |
|
|
|
|
REPAINTS & KITBASHES
| QUICK FIXES | PVC FIGURES
| DIE-CAST VEHICLES | CYBCON
EXCLUSIVES | CUSTOM LABEL SHEETS
-
Halloween
Costume
-
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!
-
Repaints, Customs, & Kitbashes
-
Sometimes all it takes is a simple paint job
to improve a toy, while others require more extensive modifications. The
projects below range from old toys with new paint jobs, to minor cosmetic
changes, to completely new designs.
-
Autobots
-
-
Mini Autobots
-
-
Dinobots
-
-
Decepticons
-
-
Classic Pretenders
-
-
Action Masters
-
-
Other Characters
-
Quick
Fixes
-
Some toys can be improved with very simple
modifications that require little or no skill. These aren't full-fledged
projects by any stretch of the imagination, but I wanted to share these
ideas with the fan community. Can you guess what kind of modifications
I made before you click the link?
-
Brawn
-
Cliffjumper
-
Laserbeak
-
Megatron (Action Master)
-
Omega
Supreme
-
Optimus Prime (Commemorative Edition)
-
Optimus Prime (Powermaster)
-
Shockwave
(Action Master)
-
Squeezeplay
-
Starscream (Commemorative Edition)
-
Windcharger (Alternator)
-
-
|
 |
|
-
Super Collection Figure and
Heroes of Cybertron PVC Figurines
-
These small, cartoon accurate figures made
by Takara in Japan made their debut in 2000 under the name Super Collection
Figure, and were later brought to America by Hasbro and sold as
Heroes of Cybertron. I began these projects as representations
of the generic background characters from the G1 cartoon, but I have since
expanded my scope to include alternate versions of canonical characters from
other media.
-
Autobots
-
A-3
-
Alpha
Trion (Matrix Vision)
-
Arcee
(Headmaster Concept)
-
Arcee
(Takara Prototype)
-
Autobot X
-
Bumblebee
(Marvel Comics)
-
Cerebros
-
Fortress Maximus (Base Mode)
-
Fortress Maximus (Marvel Comics)
-
Huffer
(Vehicle Mode)
-
Ironhide (Marvel Comics)
-
Jazz
(Marvel Comics)
-
Metroplex (City Mode)
-
Optimus
Prime (Action Master)
-
Optimus Prime (Quintesson Zombie)
-
Perceptor
(Microscope Mode)
-
Ratchet (Marvel Comics)
-
Ultra
Magnus (Marvel Comics)
-
Wheeljack (Action Master)
-
Autobots (Background Characters)
-
Asphalt (Marvel
Comics #4)
-
Crankshaft
("Desertion of the Dinobots" part 1)
-
Double Feature (Marvel Comics #2)
-
Fender
Bender (The Transformers: the
Movie)
-
Freeloader
(Marvel Comics #2)
-
Hindsight
("Five Faces of Darkness" part 4)
-
Peepshow ("Starscream's Ghost")
-
Sweep
("Thief in the Night")
-
Tire-Iron
("Five Faces of Darkness" part 5)
-
-
Decepticons
-
Decepticons (Background Characters)
-
Aftershock
("More Than Meets the Eye" part 1)
-
Bandwidth ("More
Than Meets the Eye" part 1)
-
Bobcat
("More Than Meets the Eye" part 2)
-
Blue
Moon ("Divide and Conquer")
-
Darkstrike ("The
Ultimate Doom" part 3)
-
Deadbolt
("Five Faces of Darkness" part 1)
-
Elegy
("Five Faces of Darkness" part 5)
-
Faultline
("More Than Meets the Eye" part 2)
-
Feedback
("Fight or Flee")
-
Freakshow
(Conceptual Background Character)
-
Goldwing
("Divide and Conquer")
-
Grudgematch ("More
Than Meets the Eye" part 1)
-
Hailstorm ("More
Than Meets the Eye" part 3)
-
Harbinger
("More Than Meets the Eye" part 2)
-
Heatwave
aka Sunstorm ("More Than Meets the Eye" part
1)
-
Herald
aka Air Warrior ("More Than Meets the Eye" part
2)
-
Jetlag ("Five
Faces of Darkness" part 5)
-
Limelight
aka Acid Storm ("Divide and Conquer")
-
Midnight ("More
Than Meets the Eye" part 2)
-
Nosedive
("Starscream's Brigade")
-
Orbit (The
Transformers: the Movie)
-
Overcast ("More
Than Meets the Eye" part 2)
-
Phantom
("Five Faces of Darkness" part 3)
-
Rustbucket
("Divide and Conquer")
-
Seafoam
("More Than Meets the Eye" part 2)
-
Slaughterhouse
("Five Faces of Darkness" part 3)
-
Starcraft
("More Than Meets the Eye" part 3)
-
Starlight
("More Than Meets the Eye" part 3)
-
Steelcuff ("The
Ultimate Doom" part 3)
-
Strikezone
("Five Faces of Darkness" part 1)
-
Symphony
("Five Faces of Darkness" part 1)
-
Toughstuff ("The
Ultimate Doom" part 3)
-
Twilight
("More Than Meets the Eye" part 3)
-
Wasteland
("More Than Meets the Eye" part 1)
-
White
Noise ("Five Faces of Darkness" part 4)
-
Other Characters
-
-
Maximals
-
Titanium Series Figures
-
Similar in scale and concept to the Heroes of
Cybertron figures, Galoob released a series of PVC figures with die-cast
metal parts, encompassing multiple aspects of the Transformers mythos.
Some of them made ideal fodder for projects.
-
Galvatron (Marvel Comics)
-
Skywarp
LINK
FIXED!
-
Sweep (Robot
Mode)
-
Unicron (as
"The Entity")
-
Robot Heroes
Figures
-
Designed in the style of the Star Wars
Galactic Heroes figures, the Robot Heroes are super-deformed action figure
versions of popular Transformers characters. I've turned a handful
of them into projects of my own, most of them based on Generation One characters
from the comic or cartoon.
|
|
|
-
Die-Cast Vehicles
-
This is my ever-growing collection of 1:64
scale cars, along with other assorted vehicles n' things, repainted or rebuilt
to look like Transformers characters from the cartoon show. There are
so many of them that they get their own sub-page! The above link will
take you to a menu of over 170 individual die-cast
projects.
-
-
CybCon Toys
-
The Cybertronian Conference is an unofficial
Transformers convention held annually in Washington state and hosted by Greg
Gaub and Richard "ViceGripX" Mistron. Traditionally, the convention
has also offered limited-edition, hand-crafted, exclusive collectibles.
During the conventions for which I was involved in creating and designing
the exclusives, they were usually repaints (and later, kitbashes) of existing
Hasbro toys.
-
Sticker Sets
-
Toys that I've customized using only
consumer-applied labels, of my own design or imagining, 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.
|
 |
|
-
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.
-
-
Comic Book Characters
-
Animated Series Characters
|
|
|
-
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 of them are G1 characters reimagined as Maximals or
Predacons.
-
-
Beast Mode PVC Figurine Repaints
-
-
Hasbro Toy Repaints and Kitbashes
|
 |
|
-
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.
-
Die-Cast Vehicles
-
Foot
Cruiser
-
Neutrino Star Cruiser (Dask's)
-
Neutrino Star Cruiser (Zak and Kala's)
-
Turtle Blimp
-
Turtle Van
-
Quick Fixes
-
-
Repaints, Customs, and Kitbashes
|
 |
|
-
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.
-
-
Halloween Costume
-
My Halloween costume for 2005 was a store-bought
Darth Vader costume that I heavily modified to make it more accurate, including
custom armor panels and blinking control panel lights.
-
Episode I: The Phantom Menace
-
Episode II: Attack of the Clones
-
C-3PO
(Conjectural Unfinished Version)
-
-
Episode III: Revenge of the
Sith
-
Droids
-
C-3PO
(Animated Version)
-
IG-88 (Animated Version)
-
R2-D2
(Animated Version)
-
Episode IV: A New Hope
-
C-3PO
(Marvel Comics)
-
C-3PO
(Model Kit)
-
C-3PO
(Tatooine Mission)
-
R2-D2 (12" Scale with Sound and
Lights)
-
R2-D2
(Carbon Scoring)
-
R2-D2
(Model Kit)
-
R2-D2
(TIE Fighter Damage)
-
The Star Wars Holiday Special
-
-
Episode V: The Empire Strikes
Back
-
Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
-
-
Star Wars: Wraith Squadron
|
 |
|
-
You can't deny the appeal of a TV show where
one of the main characters was a talking car. K.I.T.T. was the star
of the show, as far as I was concerned, and while there have been a
number of toys in his likeness, I wanted to build a few versions of
the character that were never officially (or accurately) represented as
merchandise.
-
Repaints and Kitbashes
-
K.I.T.T.
(1/64 Die-Cast Scale)
-
K.I.T.T. (Convertible)
-
K.I.T.T. (Model
Kit)
NEW!
-
K.I.T.T. (Super Pursuit Mode)
|
|
|
-
This 2006 Disney/Pixar film anthropomorphizes
cars and trucks in a cute and whimsical way. I'm fond of collecting
the Mattel toy line, but there were a handful of character representations
that didn't exist—so I took it upon myself to create them.
-
Repaints and Kitbashes
-
Hudson Hornet (Crash of '54)
-
Lightning McQueen (Crazy Wheels)
-
Mater
(Vintage)
-
Mood Springs (Dinoco 500 Crash)
-
Ramone (Hydraulic
Lifts)
|
|
|
-
"I am the terror that flaps in the night! I
am the lawyer who prematurely cancels your licensing agreement!" Due
to a dispute with Disney, Playmates Toys prematurely cancelled the toy line
before several key characters were ever mass produced, so here are my painted
figures and sculptures representing those characters.
-
Quick Fixes
-
-
Repaints, Kitbashes,
and Sculptures
|
|
|
-
The Smurfs was one of my favorite cartoons
as a youngster. To commemorate their 50th anniversary in 2009, Jakks
Pacific produced an assortment of action figures. This gave me a chance
to come up with my own versions of characters who I wanted to add to
my collection.
-
Repaints and Kitbashes
|
|
|
-
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.
One of my all-time video games is Final Fantasy II,
as it was called in America, and I wanted to immortalize the main
characters in action figure form.
-
-
Final Fantasy II (Final Fantasy IV
Japan)
|
 |
|
-
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.
-
-
Kitbashes
|
|
|
-
Leftovers? Perish the thought! These
are simply other projects that don't fit into any of the above
categories.
-
-
Repaints
-
Kitbashes/Sculptures
-
Model Kits
-
Store-bought kits that I have assembled and
painted, and to which I have occasionally made some structural
improvements.
-
Old B.O.B. from Disney's The
Black Hole
-
Robot
B-9 from the TV series Lost in Space
-
V.I.N.CENT.
from Disney's The Black Hole
|
|
