#gunrunner

-Twin Saint: Hariette -

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Hariette, one of the two Twin Saints of Andromeda, is a well known gunrunner with a high bounty on her head on the Will of God and the IETC’s most wanted lists. She is considered dangerous, known for her previous military training in the Andromeda System.

Transformers: Mosaic #217 - "Silent Screams"

Originally posted on July 4th, 2008

Story - Curt Lunsford Art - Clay Thomas Colours - Ger Hankey

deviantART | TFW2005 | BotTalk

This was commissioned as part of @cristails fundraiser thingy @fisherpon did a while ago, to help get money for crisisisis’s mom job situation thingy.

The last one. The first chara thats 99% featured on this mess of a blog. The titular GunRunner. not a pinkie pie. I rly love her, has quiet a lot of stuff going on in the background that i always miserably failed at properly expressing or showing. Out of all the charas i made for different occasions over the years - RP stuff dnd and what not, I never got over this one here. As people who know me can attest i certainly never have let this chara go, in the background im still thinking about the kind of stuff this chara would do and how her story would progress and all that.

mess up character of a person, she is the Leader of a faction/company that acts as a merchant and mercenary outfit in the region of the pony world where her story takes places - for once its not equestria - never was - was more a commonwealth thing (even before Fallout 4 was a thing).

She has a Hat she always wears and a rly big Gun with her at all times for various reasons. the weapon is called “Harkonnen” - over the years before and after she had many variations of this weapon, gifted to her or self build - but she keeps that one with her all the time, as it is potentially her strongest one.

GR is the Tank of the Group and is mostly specialized in taking heat from her enemies. despite her Gun being that big and being anti material rifle, she mostly only uses it at very close range - basically point blank to one shot stuff, or as a makeshift melee wpn - making use of her unorthodoxicaly savage melee strengths, the unusually high durability and weight of her Gun (as it weights around 150kg 330lb)

All the other ones also have a unique weapon which sport names that are inspired from various things from the dune franchise.

there is a bunch of more background and support charas of and with the group, but these 4 from these recent 4 post were always to an extend the main characters of that convoluted story.

Im not quiet that good at expressing myself and or doing stuff... or finishing stuff... not good at many things.... but still im quiet thankful for the ppl who did actually enjoy the mess i managed to make over the years.

This and the others were all created by the magnificent, one and only, yours truly.... @asksirlintalot ~

Here's to more to come?

The Transformers

Pretender Class

GunRunner (loose and incomplete)

By Hasbro

As I’ve mention before, I grew up in 80′s and the G1 era, but I never owned every Transformer from that decade, so I’ve got a lot of gaps in my collection (and I am NOT looking to complete that collection) but I buy what I like.

This is probably a toy that I would normally pass on, but after watching a toy review of this figure done by Youtuber Patriot Prime (link will be at the very bottom) there were enough really cool things about this toy that convinced me to look for it on eBay.

I bought the Pretender shell and figure, and the gun turret module from two different eBay sellers at two different times to make this set, and I’m still missing the missile pods. All in all I think I paid about $30 total for all of it so far.

Pretender Shell:

Gunrunner’s Pretender shell is a red, futuristic SUV with an orange canopy, and a reciprocating gun.

The SUV’s got some simple sculpting, and stickers for the headlights and grill, and other areas.

Robot Mode:

Opening up the SUV you see the Pretender bot himself just kind of lying there...

This robot mode barely qualifies as a robot mode. These late era G1 Pretenders were bare minimum and low effort attempts.

Gunrunner’s bot mode has an unpainted mustard yellow body, and black joints and head, with a bit a silver paint on the face.

The robot mode has a swiveling head, rotation at the shoulders, clavicle joint, mono-hips, and mono-knees.

By opening up the orange plastic canopy you see some internal mechanical detail, however this is also a spring-loaded hatch which can be opened up to allow Gunrunner to sit in the car and drive it.

You can’t exactly close the canopy after he’s been placed in the driver’s seat, but I like the idea behind it.

Flight Mode:

Gunrunner himself doesn’t exactly have a vehicle mode, he’s more of the accessory to the vehicle component…

Folding Gunrunner up into...I guess an engine, it can be tabbed underneath the gun turret which has flip out nosecone and tiny wings, and you basically have a min jet,

It’s block and awkward, but it’s a thing.

Final Thoughts:

The concept of a Pretender Transformer which turns into a car is a pretty silly idea; Pretender’s were meant to imitate organic beasts, humans, and aliens.

The actual robot mode of GunRunner is unimaginative and lazy, and the flight mode is boring. However I do like the SUV Pretender shell, and that’s what drew me to this toy in the first place.

In my opinion this toy will never, EVER truly fit in among my G1 transformers, however I think this toy (at least the shell, and the gun turret) would be great among my pitifully unimpressive G.I. Joe collection. Considering the SUV itself can accommodate a driver maybe the Pretender shell can instead be G.I. Joe vehicle with Autobot enhanced weaponry. I wonder if that was the original intent of the toy since GI Joe and Transformers are supposed to be in the same universe...

Day 11 - green (a grumpy @askyourgunrunner​ and her hat done in psuedo-gelpen)

Day 12 - goat (the absolute GOD of hyperdeath)

Days 13 and 14 - princess and gemstones

Day 15 - long ears (a crazed caracal kineticist)

Day 16 - fluffy (no one do anything... naughty)