Nightscream Kitbash

	Why did I make this?

When I made this there was not existing toy
of nightscream and when one was eventually made it
was too big.

What materials did I use.

Lots of epoxy and lots of paint.

and one twistie tie that is so plentiful
in transformer pachaging.

I started with a transmetal 2 basic size sonar.

I realized that it looked enough like nightscream so
I set to work on it.

First I remolded the robot head using epoxy.
I made the largh eyes for which nightscream is known and
cut off the bat ears and attached them
to his back so they would still line up with
the bat head in beast mode.

I next removed the bat feet from the robot chest and
epoxied them to the back of the robot feat to
give the bat more dexterity in beast mode.
I kept the upper arms in the chest to brace the waist
in robot mode.

On the inside of the backplate I epoxied one twistie
tie which can be wound up and stored and then pulled
out to act as a vampire action.

I next worked on the bat head.  I used epoxy once
more to bond a nail to the bat's jaw and give him his
characteristic horn in bat mode.  the last
step of the epoxying process was to bond the wings to the 
arms and then cut them off of the main body so the
robot mode would have bat wings on its arms.
This differs from the winged feet of the
TV show version but it does stay true with the 
larger toy version.

After all the epoxy had dried I applied several coats of paint
to remove the grey look of the toy and make him look more
organic.  

A special note ont this toy.  after the paint chipped many times
around the joints and all manner of gloss failed to protect it 
I mixed a batch of epoxy and coated the entire thing.  Now the paint
job is presserved under a millimeter of clear plastic and will never wear.