Finally got some spare time and brain space for finishing one of my franken-Blokees, so here's a very silly little guy made from spare parts (including a leftover Legacy Animated Prowl head). I have zero explanation for whatever this is besides the fact that I like the Constructicon colour scheme.

All the official lads together, plus Nightwatch, who fits in surprisingly well. Still feels a little wild to see Dead End right here with the rest of them tbh. (Yes, I know the holsters for the nunchaku are supposed to flip up, but I'm lazy and I didn't feel like taking them out to do it properly.)

He's here! ...I feel a sudden need to go hide all of my Poe and anything resembling emo music, just in case. Pretty sure I'm already hearing him mutter something about "the inevitable march towards death", so I'm not sure how much good it will do.

Got home and opened them up. They're kind of terrible but I like the chopper more than I probably ought to.

The call of the cheap knockoffs at Five Below successfully lured me in, I fear.

Went to a neighbourhood festival today and ended up picking up a few things. Not pictured: the funnel cake the size of my head and gigantic teriyaki chicken skewer I had for lunch.

I was looking for something else TFA-related on Cults3D today and instead discovered that someone had recently made a replacement missile for the leader Bulkhead figure! I printed a set and gave them a bit of paint, and my dude is looking pretty good with his missile racks full again.

Be sure to support this art with reposts and comments because all I can really say is, theres more of it to come and its for a big reason! Can't say any more than that.

So, uh. I might have just accidentally stumbled upon an Animated Dead End on ebay and bought him before I could talk myself out of spending 150 bucks on him. Just casually finding one of my personal grails at 9PM on a Wednesday, no biggie.

Pretty crap photo, but I picked up a Rodimus Minor on ebay for 30 bucks (super cheap compared to the others listed rn) because the back piece with the spoiler is broken at the hinge. Plan was to try to fix it but the piece tabs into his back well enough that I don't know if I even need to bother.

I'm not going to say that he's particularly well painted, but he's done-ish. This idea has lived in my head rent-free for years since I saw a twitter post about it, and I finally sat down and made one of my own. Presenting: Rodimouse Prime, who exists purely because it's goddamned hilarious.

The orange paint is as annoying as ever to work with and I might have to strip it and use a different orange, but have a WIP photo of this ridiculous thing

Couple of new bots arrived today! Well...technically one new bot and one old one, but y'all know what I mean. (I have Plans™ for a custom using the Rattrap, I just might need to order some more paint in the colours I want to use before I can start working on it.)

"I think politics should be kept out of Transformers and we should all get along" I think you should fuck off.

Haha. Got called an "ignorant asshole" today by a Trump supporter on the Transformers sub for answering the question of "but why can't we just come together without real-world politics", and I'm still laughing. Def a guy who thinks "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" is just a catchphrase.

Oh lol. Guess who just realized she forgot Animated Soundwave in the photo of the 'Con shelf? I sat him down after cleaning the filth he arrived with off and then just...totally forgot I did it until about ten minutes ago when I saw him on the towel where I left him. Guess I need another photo later

Sidenote: Animated Starscream might be the MOST Starscreamy of my collection, because he's been nothing but trouble since I got him. I've nearly lost the fingers on his right hand 3 times now, so I finally just gave in and lightly glued them in place with a dab on the pegs that hold them in the arm.

The final result of my perhaps ill-advised spending. I already had Ratchet, Blurr, Swindle, Shockwave, Lugnut, the Jazzes and Prowls, Lockdown, and the custom guy, but everybody else is new. I'm calling my TFA collection good for now, though there are a couple more bots I might pick up (much) later.

God, I love USPS sometimes. One of the bots I ordered is shown on the tracking as "Arriving today by 9PM", except that the last scan was in Indiana four hours ago and I'm in MD, so unless they've discovered the secret to teleportation, I find that estimate *exceedingly* unlikely.

More arguably unwise financial decisions were made and I now have Animated Arcee, Oil Slick, Starscream, and Blackarachnia on their way to me. There are a couple more figures from the line I'd like to pick up eventually, but I feel like this is a pretty solid place to stop right now.

Altmode photo of Megs with the new parts! The nose bit doesn't snap on super tight, but it's good enough for display and occasional transformation.

Rotor sword in place, and the fusion cannon + nosecone replacement. (It took me four tries to get the nosecone piece to actually print properly.) Not perfect replacements but I'm pretty happy with how he looks with them fitted.

Did a first pass of silver on Megatron's rotor swords. Definitely going to need to neaten the edges up when this first layer dries.

Successfully printed Megatron's rotor swords and cannon, but the nosecone part the cannon is supposed to attach to is VEXING ME. Gonna have to keep trying to figure out what the hell angle is going to make my printer happy enough to actually work.

Got Sentinel and Bulkhead today! Bulkhead is missing his missiles and turret cannon (which made him cheaper than a complete one), but he still works perfectly. Bonus: I opened him up to put fresh batteries in and discovered that he still had his original (very dead) Hasbro-branded ones.

Blitzwing has arriiiived! I will figure out how to get him into jet mode later, but for now, here's tank mode and bot mode. His joints are still so stiff that I'm a little nervous about pushing or pulling too hard on anything without being absolutely sure about what I'm doing.

First of my many new bots has arrived! He was MOC but I am a filthy non-box collector so I immediately freed him from his prison. Gotta love these metallic finishes Takara likes putting on their releases of figures. ❤️

Got my state tax refund and spent a load of it on Animated bots for my collection because I am a responsible adult human who can be trusted with extra hobby money. There are a few more on my to-buy list but I'm doing the actual responsible adult thing and saving those for later purchase.

Still need to do some touching up, especially of the trim, but I found @brickbotguy.bsky.social 's Barricade head for Animated Jazz and decided to redo the custom I made with that super yellowed Jazz into something decidedly less eye-searing. I'm calling this guy Nightwatch, at least for now.

Had to have four root canals this week, but the universe has rewarded me for dealing with it like a big girl by allowing me to stumble upon a complete Animated Blitzwing for a shockingly reasonable price, even including the shipping from another continent.

Unexpected find at Five Below today! I wasn't actually looking for Transformers stuff, surprisingly, but I had to buy these guys once I saw them on the shelf.

Jazz's Toyhax stickers came in and have vastly improved his looks. (The alt mode is great, but that solid white was just not it for a Jazz.) He looked so sad and plain next to his Prowl, and now he's got the proper Jazzy style.

Got my Alternators Jazz...annnd completely forgot to photograph his alt mode before I transformed him. Gotta get this lad some reprolabels because he is BARE.

Also, I just took Prowl's shins off and turned his knees around so I can have the hatchback side on the front and still use the articulation. I know his legs are meant to have the flat side as the front, but that looks terrible and I'd rather see the inside of his shins than stare at that ugly blue.

Bought myself a couple of new bots (Jazz is still on the way), and I have realized that I did not quite comprehend how friggin' big Alternators actually are. I know what 1:24 means, but it really did not click until this chonker was actually in my hands. They'll be good company for the MP lads.

Got some more robutts! All of GV9 plus Metroplex, Hot Rod, bot mode Sludge, and Shrapnel from GV8. I wasn't expecting them to arrive for another couple days but I'm definitely not going to complain about them getting here early. Guess I know what I'm doing after dinner tonight.

Now in colour, courtesy of Mike Spicer who works with Daniel Warren Johnson on Skybound TF:

VERY rough first attempt at painting Swerve that will be stripped and redone later, because this looks like absolute ass rn. (Don't try painting when you should really be sleeping, kids.)

Two partially failed tries at casting dice=one kind of okay set plus a couple extras. Just...don't look too closely at some of the faces. (There's a reason I say "kind of okay".) Pink iridescent flakes in clear resin. Might have a third go at making an actually good set bc I'm almost onto something.

Blokees custom WIP. I found a cool little Swerve addon kit on cults3D from someone called Toastedscrews and printed it out. Little guy just needs a coat of paint and maybe for me to scale down a My First Blaster stl and print it for him.

I found two bags of epoxy resin crafting supplies (the resin, assorted baggies of confetti and tiny clay sprinkles, bottles of resin dye, and some mica powders) at my local creative reuse store this week, so I guess it's time to get back to dice making.

Made it through christmas eve in retail and I just want to down a handle of whisky and sleep for a week, and absolutely never listen to another fucking christmas song for the rest of my life.

Got myself a little Christmas present. ROTF Lockdown, snagged for about half of what most of the ones on ebay were going for just because he (as Lockdowns are wont to do) was missing his engine. I found and printed a replacement for it, so now he's complete, if slightly more mismatched than usual.

And a (terrible) photo of the new guys on The Shelf Of Jazzes And Prowls Of Descending Size. I had to do a bit of rearranging to fit them in because they're taller than the OG G1 lads but shorter than ER/SS86. I can't fit any more on there now, so I guess I'm actually finally done with this nonsense

Built the smol robutts. NGL, I feel like their heads are maybe a bit small, but they're solid little guys.

Happy birthday to meee!

Also, I have been living under a rock and only just discovered that Yolopark made mini model kits and now I have a new Jazz and Prowl for The Shelf on the way. These are the last ones, really, actually, finally this time, I swear. (For now.)

The one single upside (for me) of the Army-Navy game happening in my city is that I got to see Jimmy Eat World perform live for free last night. Last time I saw them I was 17 and they were opening for Green Day on the American Idiot tour. Gotta take these little moments of joy in all of the shit rn.

Working on printing a copy of Sam's Forge's Lugnut, and my printer has decided that it's going to be temperamental about which parts print and which don't. Troubleshooting a whole new kind after getting used to knowing what was wrong with resin print problems is so much fun.-_-