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PUNCH (DIE-CAST) PROJECT #411 CLASSIFICATION: REPAINT BASE VEHCILE: HOT WHEELS PONTIAC FIERO MATERIALS USED: ACRYLIC PAINTS FIRST APPEARANCE: "THE REBIRTH" PART 1 "Wingspan and Pounce!  What are those spies up to?  Time for me to do a little spying of my own..." Comments:  For a long time, I've been wanting to create die-cast versions of Punch and Counterpunch (the Autobot double spy and his Decepticon alter-identity), but it took me a while to track down the right vehicles.  In the end, my patience paid off when I got two Pontiac Fieros from 1984 off an eBay auction that ended at one cent.  (Yay!)  I had originally been planning to represent both characters with one car, cutting a hole in the roof of the car and devising some kind of panel that would flip, revealing either an Autobot or Decepticon symbol.  I don't have the right tools to cut metal with the kind of precision  I needed,  though, so I ended up painting two separate cars instead. COUNTERPUNCH (DIE-CAST) PROJECT #412 CLASSIFICATION: REPAINT BASE VEHCILE: HOT WHEELS PONTIAC FIERO MATERIALS USED: ACRYLIC PAINTS FIRST APPEARANCE: "THE REBIRTH" PART 1 "...as a Decepticon!" Comments: With a lot of my early die-cast repaints, I just sort of held the car by the wheels and tried to paint as much of the body as I could get the paintbrush to touch.  Lately, I've been drilling into the bolts holding the cars together and disassembling them completely so I can paint them more thoroughly.  This also enables me to add side windows to cars that don't have any, as was the case with Punch and Counterpunch here. This Page Created 2/14/2008 Last Update: 10/14/2009 ©2008 Inspiration Studios Transformers® and related characters are the property of Hasbro, Inc. You can trust me, Galvatron!