CHERRY BOMB PROJECT #419 CLASSIFICATION: REPAINT BASE FIGURE: ROBOT HEROES SUNSTREAKER MATERIALS USED: ACRYLIC PAINTS, ENAMEL SEALANT MEDIA APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS #5 (MARVEL COMICS) "Should you disagree, I will be forced to do to you what I do now to this fallen Autobots [sic]—should logic so dictate." Preamble:  You probably remember this guy if you ever read the early Marvel Comics issues of TRANSFORMERS, even if you don't realize that you remember him.  After Shockwave showed up out of nowhere, commandeered the Ark and took control of the Decepticons, he grabbed one of the disabled Autobots and made an example of him for Megatron's sake.  This poor fellow shares a body design with Sunstreaker, but his color scheme is similar to that of Optimus Prime (I strongly suspect that Nel Yomtov thought this was supposed to be Prime's headless body).  We know this isn't Sunstreaker, though, since we see him hanging from the ceiling with the other Autobots in a later issue.  We see Cherry Bomb twice, once as Shockwave destroys him and again later after he orders some Decepticon troops to clean up the mess. Construction:  Robot Heroes figures are comparatively easy to paint since they're usually only made from four or five parts.  Dipping the Sunstreaker figure in hot water allowed me to pop his arms and head off, making it easier to paint his individual parts.  (I whittled down the pegs on the ends of his arms and head to facilitate the reassembly process.)  Cherry Bomb is colored a little differently from one scene to the next, so I did my best to try to reconcile the two looks together into one project. Comments:  I tried to pick a name for this guy that was in the same style of some of the other members of the original Ark crew.  I liked the idea of something referencing his color scheme, but I came up with the name before I actually started working on the project, and for some reason I'd remembered him having a lot more red to him.  Oh, well.  No more strange than a character named Bluestreak who's mostly silver, right?  (Actually, I'm kind of getting an Ultra Magnus vibe from him, which is weird, since he predates that character by about two years.) CHERRY BOMB FUNCTION:  INCENDIARY WARFARE "Anything that flies, I can knock out of the sky." Doesn't care what he's doing or who he's with, as long as he gets to blow things up.  Reckless and destructive.  Requests from fellow Autobots to exercise caution fall on muted auditory modules.  Brave only so long as he's fully armed.  Shoulders launch mortar shells a distance of 3.1 miles, equivalent of 300 lbs. of TNT...loves to get as close as possible to watch the explosions.  Uses two ionic disrupter cannons to interrupt Decepticon flight controls, temporarily grounding them.  Prone to vibration damage due to close proximity to his own bombs. STR: 4  INT: 3  SPD: 6  END: 8  RNK: 4  CRG: 4  FPW: 10  SKL: 7 This Page Created 7/23/2008 Last Update: 12/6/2011 ©2008 Inspiration Studios Transformers® and Robot Heroes™ are trademarks of Hasbro, Inc. Blasted clean through the crotch.  Ouch.