Give Laserbeak Glowing Red Eyes

I love the Transformers toys, I mean, take the Booster x10 toy (AKA Laserbeak). Very posable, has 14 points of articulation and just looks cool! It would be even cooler if he had glowing red eyes and no sissy "feathers".

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Mashup an LED throwie and "Booster x10" and you get a great, menacing, Laserbeak, just in time for Halloween.

What you'll need:
"Booster x10" transformer toy (now being sold in a two-pack at Wal-mart). $5-$9
LED --Blood Red (scavenged mine from a free Target gift card.) $0.00
Microswitch (I scavenged mine from an old fax machine. You can probably find one in an inkjet old printer) $0.00
CR 2016 Lithium Battery $3
Multimeter (Optional)
Jumper Wires (Also scavenged from a free Wii Target gift card). $0.00

Tools:
Small Phillips screwdriver
Scotch Tape
Soldering Iron
Exacto Knife
Superglue

Step 1 Old-Schoolify

Remove the wings and cut off the extra feathers. The original Laserbeak didn't have them, so we'll remove them to help give this a more old-school feel. Replace the wings.

Comments

[Mepain]

Think I could do this with my Lego Megatron? +P

[royalestel]

Absolutely. You could do this with anything.

[Shark500]

This was pretty awesome. go figure it has just enough space to fit an led, battery, and switch. lol great job.

[royalestel]

Yup, not much room in there!

[mycroftxxx]

Beautiful kitbash.

Now someone (with better skills than I) needs to mix this kitbash with Jin Saotome's Lazerbeak with articulated neck.

[royalestel]

Thanks for the link! I just had another great idea that I'm going to do with this!

[Darkshot]

huh??? i dont really see the whole point of all those steps to see his plastic little eyes light up

[RiddleOfSphinx]

Mannn, too bad they don't make 'em like they used to. Soundwave was one of my fave transformers :D Not a bad mod, considering it's such a tiny piece to begin with :-S.

[!Andrew_Modder!]

i honestly dont get it :-\