Skritz wrote:It's an interesting idea, especially if that Optimus is very 'shellformer'-ey, which I'd guess he is. Another alternative I thought was getting a knockoff oversized Brainstorm and adding some extra parts to change the silhouette (especially the chest part) and maybe find some way to add a new head, irrelevant of the headmaster gimmick (as long as the head can be removed during transformation). Alternatively, I could see myself using a Combiner Wars Scattershot with a new head: I recall the non-Computron is still warming shelves and taking space in online stores. Thoughts on those less intense ideas?
Also next week I'll have the custom Skywarp done. And maybe Thundercracker, depend how well it goes.
Skritz wrote:I just ain't as ambitious or as confident as you, man. Hell I'm terrified that Skywarp, which is a straight up repaint, will come off all wrong and will ruin the figure.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Skritz wrote:I just ain't as ambitious or as confident as you, man. Hell I'm terrified that Skywarp, which is a straight up repaint, will come off all wrong and will ruin the figure.
You'll just have to start somewhere. The key is to practice on worthless crap. If you fail, try again. My Lab may look impressive, but I tell you that for every shown customs there, there's one failed or incomplete customs. Waiting to be completed or hidden in shame.
Also, I'd be "terrified" too for Skywarp because I suck at painting. That's the one area I need better equipement and more practice on.
Anyway, gather scraps and get your hands dirty. Don't hesitate to part-swaps and cut things off. Saw, glue, screw. Thinking about something stupid? DO IT! It might just work. The only thing you have to lose is scrap you may even have gotten for free.... and a few drops of blood!
Skritz wrote:I only have experience painting miniatures. Not used to dealing with things with moving parts, even if my study of the PotP Starscream transformation scheme leaves me confident that it's relatively doable exactly because it's such a 'bad' transformation. I plan to make use of the fact it has such a simple robot-to-jet conversion where most of the altmode is on the back to my advantage.
Skritz wrote:Right now I plan to remove the big gauntlet and the combiner head on Skywarp and Thundercracker. Starscream is probably getting the same cosmetic touch up, maybe some extra paint and reprolables later but I intended to keep his combiner gimmick intact just in case, leaving it as an option.
It's basic, but I intended to start there.
skycutter wrote:i thought of something someone could do, turn the power of the prime optimus prime to motormaster, and make him combiner compatiable for his team, make it look sorta more g1 like
Skritz wrote:What would be the best molds to turn into the Brainmasters? Part of me want to either say some CW Cars but then you get the issue that they lack Brainmaster equivalent and only form limbs, leaving you wonder how the heck you'd even make a Road Caesar. Ditching the combination gimmick does open up Titans Return molds, with Head Titan Masters being a nice stand-in for the Brainmaster gimmick. The problem is, there's only really a single Titans Return 'car' mold and that's Chromedome.
Hmmm. I'm stumped on this idea I initially wanted to post out of boredom.
Skritz wrote:Here is a really, really bonkers one that I dare the most advanced customizer to try! Turning Power of the Primes 'Leader Evolution Optimal Optimus' into a 'Leader Evolution Liege Maximo'. What, you don't know how that could work? Allow me to explain.
The original G2 Liege Maximo looks like this:
Giant, hulking demon-like lump with giant hands who sit on a throne, covered in HR Geiger-esque biomechanical mess of tubes.
Meanwhile his Aligned and (what I call Neo-G1) IDW design looks like this:
A more normal looking Transformers who basically look a lot like Loki.
Okay so how does one turn Optimal Optimus into Liege Maximo? Well, basically do bear in mind this custom wouldn't really have an alt mode. The idea is to turn the small Primal into the smaller, newer Liege Maximo with a new head and maybe torso. This small Liege Maximo exist as part of the 'backpack' on the larger body, as it does with Primal. Meanwhile, the larger 'Optimal' body is cut apart, gutting away as many elmements which make him look like Optimus Primal as possible, using putty and putting tubes and sculpting a new, monstrous demonic form which make use of the overall body shape of Optimal Optimus, retaining the articulation.
Thus, does Liege Maximo live up (finally) to the modern idea that he is a trickster: his monstrous, big handed demon self is a sham, with the real Maximo hiding on his back like a coward, pretending to be this giant demonic figure.
Edit: A very, very VERY crude picture of what I mean.
Skritz wrote:Based off a discussion about those who lost the 'Next Prime' vote: I was thinking a few ways to imagine a 'Hound Prime' design but alas no POTP Leader Mold would ever work, even with massive customizing. As such this got me thinking back to simply using a Voyager-sized mold as that's a decent size class for most leaders.
Since Hound is a military Jeep, presumably his upgraded altmode would also be a military vehicle. Which got me thinking about the idea he could have been a tank. Now I know on the surface this seems unfitting for G1 Hound who is a nice guy but it would remain consistent with his previous altmode and would look suitably big and imposing while retaining an identical color scheme of army green. As such, the upcoming Siege Megatron with some customizing, including a new head, would be well-suited to the 'what if' that is 'Hound Prime'.
The other option would be to get a knockoff oversized Rook, give it a new head and paint it green. Still military, still big and leader-like and military but otherwise more friendly than a tank.
Third option would be T30 Roadbuster, again with a new head.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Skritz wrote:Based off a discussion about those who lost the 'Next Prime' vote: I was thinking a few ways to imagine a 'Hound Prime' design but alas no POTP Leader Mold would ever work, even with massive customizing. As such this got me thinking back to simply using a Voyager-sized mold as that's a decent size class for most leaders.
Since Hound is a military Jeep, presumably his upgraded altmode would also be a military vehicle. Which got me thinking about the idea he could have been a tank. Now I know on the surface this seems unfitting for G1 Hound who is a nice guy but it would remain consistent with his previous altmode and would look suitably big and imposing while retaining an identical color scheme of army green. As such, the upcoming Siege Megatron with some customizing, including a new head, would be well-suited to the 'what if' that is 'Hound Prime'.
The other option would be to get a knockoff oversized Rook, give it a new head and paint it green. Still military, still big and leader-like and military but otherwise more friendly than a tank.
Third option would be T30 Roadbuster, again with a new head.
What would you say to Universe (or WFC Siege) Hound, with evolved form armor that transforms into a missile trailer towed by the Jeep?
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