Third party company Fans Hobby, via their Facebook account, have posted up images of their new MB-23 G1 Powermaster Dreadwing / Masterforce Godmaster Buster.
Fans Hobby is bringing us a very impressive modern take of G1 Powermaster Dreadwing for the Masterpiece scale, a figure that may also be repainted as G1 Japan Masterforce Godmaster Buster. We have images of a color test shot (without spray paints, imprints and using Buster color scheme) showing off the robot mode poseability and the Powermaster/Godmaster unit. Jet mode looks clean and solid and you can also attach the Powermaster on it. The top cover for the Powermaster/Godmaster unit is detachable, so you can choose your favorite configuration for display.
We still have no concrete information on price or release date, but stay tuned with TFw2005 for more updates. See all the images after the break and then let us know your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
Magna Jet Convoy
Love your work @Maz !
Maz
MB-23A Fright Storm – robot mode!
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All the best
Maz
xueyue2
Very nice! All you need is Ryu vs Guile in front of this plane. (And that mysteriously erected guy in the background too)
Maz
Been waiting to get both parts of this before doing the galleries, so here's the Fans Hobby MB-23A Fright Storm (Masterpiece-scale Powermaster Dreadwind) – jet mode!
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All the best
Maz
nemesisconvoy
I recieved my 3-day availability notice from TCP for Dark Strike
DrCalligari
Agreed. I just got the US deco version. I do like him, he's a bit awkward but I kinda find it charming in him?
But yeah, I feel like with as good as some of the engineering is here the backpack could have been handled more elegantly.
Ratchet2007
So I really like how this guy looks but that backpack man. I wish they could have done something else with it. I feel that is a place that lets FH down in general
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Dodgy Dan
Dreadwind? Reminds me of that dodgy curry I had last week…
Pun-3X
I won't mention the wings. I promise.
I will mention the teal one is Dreadwind.
blurr95
Hey man, you should really fold the wings in.
Dodgy Dan
This Sunday on pay-per-view: It's the Teal Terror versus the Red Ravager in a no holds barred drubbing match round the back of the bins at Tescos! Winner gets a four pack of Stella and fifteen quid in Wetherspoons vouchers.
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Aaaaaand I can't decide which one I like more. Buster is the more vibrant and striking of the two, but Darkwing has the better colour cohesion and will probably look better in his display place next to FH Overlord. But his helmet colour doesn't match the rest of the purple on his body (which is driving me mad), yet the upcoming Hydra doesn't look as nice to me due to the colour scheme (red, blue and grey? Blech).
I do like this figure, even if it isn't FH's best work. And don't tell me to fold the wings in, I likes 'em like that.
Snaku
Yeah, it's definitely not my favorite thing. Dreadwind already looks very much like a toy compared to most modern MP style figures and the stickers just reinforce that. I've never been much for the whole "premium" thing – these are toys to me – but I dunno', it just makes him look much more like a toy you'd give a kid than a Masterpiece.
nemesisconvoy
Thanks, I suppose I'll be applying them next weekend.
Currywurst
very well. The adhesive is good.
But the stickers get a bit wrinkled if you can't apply them right the first time and have to try again.
Still, it looks good if you have them on.
edgecrusher
Ewww stickers.
Looking forward to the US version of MB-24 to go with my MB-23a!
nemesisconvoy
How well do Fright Storm's stickers adhere to him???
BIOMEC
There is enough mass, jets are HUGE, the shape of the planes might made the design more difficult but it's doable. Besides, the robot mode doesn't need to be humanoid, it could vary to adapt to different jet types.
Max Rawhide
Well, I didn't say impossible, I said nigh impossible
Impressive and hope giving as that design is, it's still not an F-16. And though a very slim jet it does have some clear advantages in turning it into a robot over the F-16. For example, it's a double engine design which is big plus because each engine can (and apparantly does) become a leg. There's also the mass of a double intake which again is beneficial. And despite being pretty thin, this does results in a wider fusilage where robot parts can hide.
In contrast a F-16 is a single engine, single intake design which a very thin fusilage. Looking at the model I have on display (which being a non-Lego set already has slighly more volume to it than a real F-16), there are definitely parts that can store robot parts, but not much. Most of the mass is from the single intake at the front that transitions into the single engine. That and the nosecone/cockpit really is the only mass it has and that is a slim, thin piece.
Not impossible, but you don't get much robot from it. The FH Buster/Dreadwind is a 1:48 scale (MP seekers are 1:60) and it has a bulked out fusilage. FT and Zeta have done the same with Skydive. But if they had made it in scale with the MP seekers (1:60) it would've been much smaller, and if they made it accurate there would be very few parts to work with. The F-16 is a really small, thin jet.
The JSF/Lightning (or the Chinese copy which was turned into a robot by the same designer as the one you showed) is also a single engine jet, but it has a lot more mass to it. But some jets like the F-16 or the F-18 are incredibly slim: thin jets with little mass where a robot can hide.