User:Anacrucis

Short bio:

My relationship with Transformers began with the acquistion of Microbots Brawn in '84, and flowered when I saved up enough allowance to order G1 Sideswipe from the Sears catalogue. Highlights of this era included dressing as Brawn for Halloween '84, and promoting Optimus Prime as our cub-scouts den's candidate for the pack's 1984 mock presidential election. "Optimus Prime, he's our guy, there's more to him than meets the eye!"

This phase ended several years later after they killed Prime (everything was ruined!) in the movie and the next toy fad came along.

Fast forward maybe 20 years, a couple of my friends get really into Alternators, I think they're neat but don't really see what they're on about.

Flash forward to 2010. I see RotF Brawn on the shelf at the Supermarket and, overcome with nostalgia, am unable to leave him there. With the discovery that 2010 TF toys are much more fun than the early G1 models, a sizeable collection builds over a 3 week time period; I've been bitten by the bug. My passion for the characters is subordinate to my interest in applying my wargaming "conversion" skills to some of these toys. First project that came to mind was converting RotF Evac (or one of the many other toys in the mold) to replicate a USCG HH-65A Dolphin, a couple carformer conversions, and some repaints/weathering of some of the tankformers. And neon green RotF Ratchet desparately needs some additional detail on his kibble.