Autobot Wrecker : Whirl

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For a long time, I've wanted to do a custom Whirl. He was one of the few Transformers that survived the years since my childhood. A while back, I awoke from sleep thinking I had a great idea....convert Energon Quickstrike into Whirl, similar transformation, good size, etc. I found out some time after that this same idea was already done (by Wheeljack of sector70) yet - continued with the project, being a Whirl fan.

Since I had the G1 Whirl from my younger years, I did what I do best. Hacked it up. I used some of the original g1 Whirl parts on this custom : head, claw, feet, coptor blades. for the canon arm, I used parts from a VERY expensive zoid saber model kit. I did some heavy moding to build of this base figure, especially in the waist area (articulated) feet and other areas.

somehow, I integrated a working flashing 1mm LED, switch, battery and wires in his little head. A small on/off switch on the back activates the blinking RED led. *the g1 toy and art had the eye red as well*

Also, I installed a motor to his main helicopter blade (check out the video to follow demonstrating it) There's a small button on the tail of the helicopter which when pressed, spin his yellow blades of carnage.



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Here's a video demonstrating the motorized helicopter blade and LED blinky eye.



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[BigHank]

Great job on the feet! I was worried looking at the bot mod pics until I scrolled down to the helo pics. Worked out so much better than I was imagining. Good work on the wiring too, works well for the figure!:D

[jbarb78]

I dont remember him from back in the day, but I like what you did here. That blue in particular is quite nice, is this the one that everyone thought was gonna be Soundwave on FB?

[Solrac333]

I really like the colors.

[darkpsi]

The shades of blue used are perfection!

[Hotwire]

Cool! Where are you guys getting those raised faction symbols?

[raged]

Puts my original G1 Whirl to Shame.

Looks really cool, impressive as always.

[speedleescustoms]

Very nice ! I saw the video the other day, my jaws are still wide open ! Great work ! :D

[INCOM]

Reminds me of Blue Thunder :D Great work, man, and the rotating rotorblades are too cool!

[thyvipera]

wow man, hadnt had a chance to comment on this guy, and I JUST watched the youtube video on him, blown away by the motorized blades, that's freakin sweet man

so damn cool, and i love the size of him

[Reluttr]

Cool! Where are you guys getting those raised faction symbols?

isn't it already molded onto the figure? If not I would like to know to :D