" Give me the cube boyy!!!!!!! " Diorama
Time to roll out! Here is my Botcon Custom Contest Entry. I entered the diorama contest. I wanted to do something totally different, so I did a Marvel Legends Scale of the roof top scene with Sam and Megatron from the first movie. The building and claw is all made from foam. The whole model ways about 8 lbs. The building was carved out of blue insulation foam, trimmed out in molding and dollhouse size windows. The statues are re-sculpts of a 12'' Invisible woman , molded and casted. I tried to make my cast smooth but a few air bubbles just for the fact that the statues in the scene had some damage to them. The Sam figure is made out of a ML Logan Body, dremeled down, and resculpted with a hood. The head comes from a Kirk figure from the new Star Trek Movie. Like I said earlier the AKA Megatron arm is all made of foam with some plastic pieces glue to it. Now for some of you , I know the arm doesn't really look like Megatron's claw. I researched all over the net for a good picture of his arm/hand. But in almost every pic I found he had a different number of fingers or style of wrist etc so I kept it simple with the 3 finger claw just like the Leader Class Megatron.
For the most part I think the building came out great. It is the biggest piece I ever made. I didn't win the contest, but I'm ok with it. I happened to talk with one of the judges , who was Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro's Transformer Toy Designer) and asked his opinon about the building, just to see what I could do better next time. He responded in telling me he wished the building had more detail around and inside the building. Eric really knows his stuff! Thanks for chatting Eric. Now you can't tell with the pics, but I did paint the inside with various colors to look like an abandoned building. I think I would have made a better impression if I would done the claw in true Transformer style. (All plastic, with mechaincal pieces, and painted like metal.) Also I think the building would have turned out better with more added details, (electrical boxes, busted pipes, wires) etc. All in all it was a great expereince. I learned alot. Also I got to met Aaron Archer (Hasbro's Transformers Lead Toy Designer, left pic ). We spoke for about 20 minutes, Aaron was laid back and was really cool to chat with! Thanks for taking time out Aaron!
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Aaron Archer Hasbro's Transformers Toy Designer
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