The Making of Classics Dirge (the artwork)

A Brief History

To transform him into how he might look hanging from a familiar peg at Toys 'R Us, I fiddle with pictures of the tri-lingual packaged Ramjet to get the appropriate images with which to work. In the end, I went to seibertron.com and made use of their extensive photo reference of the English packaged orginal. Once I had a packaged background, I manipulated a number of pictures of the custom figure to line them up with the existing art, including the flip-mode gimmick, and created the applicable text.

The result: what could have been. At least in 2007. All evidence seems to point to a re-imagined Dirge for the Japanese market from Takara-Tomy.

What is amusing of course is that, because I used a MOC figure as the background (as oppose to a picture of the blank card), the final Dirge artwork still contains the toy image of Ramjet. Kind of a reversal of the standard "what would this new toy look like on this pre-existing control art." Which I just find funny.

(Special thanks to seibertron.com for their ever-helpful photo references).