Spinister - when real is sci-fi, and the colour is just weird!

[Faust]

They say that "everything old is new again" and I think they must have had our current fascination with nostalgia particularly in mind when coming up with that phrase. The good thing about nostalgia is that sometimes it spawns a "do-over", where whatever is being fondly remembered gets reinvented with the benefit of modern sensibilities and technology.

Nowhere is that more apparent, to me at least, than when it comes to toys. The current crop of Transformers toys are almost exclusively re-dos of old classic standbys but with modern, top-notch design and functionality. However, before this wave of nostalgia hit, I had thought it would be fun to try and bring two of my favourite things (modelling, and Transformers) together.

Rather, though, than model someone famous this time, I decided to go for a "What if they were real?" approach. That's not that entertaining when the subject is a yellow Beetle, perhaps, but it gets plenty freaky when it's a magenta, blue an purple quiltwork of an AH-64 Apache!

Check out my "just for fun" take on the classic Decepticon helicopter named Spinister. What, you don't remember him? Check it out at the link below, and you'll wonder how the "in disguise" part was every supposed to work in this guy's favour.

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/model-kits/mecha-robots/academy-1-72-ah-64a-apache-spinister/

[zenrat]

Excellent.

But surely "Spinster" would be a girl robot?

[silverwindblade]

'Spinster' Might be, but 'SpinISter' isn't; it's a play on the word Sinister

Excellent job though, very unique idea, and a good one too.
Definitely agree about Spinister not being very 'in disguise', that's for sure

[zenrat]

 

D'oh.  that's me not reading it properly.

I need a bigger font.

[tigercat]

wasnt there a Maroon Tank called Quake in same sub range

[silverwindblade]

Yep, that's quite correct. He turned into a Leopard II. His double targetmaster partners form guns on top of his turret.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Quake_(G1)