The Energon Pub

by **Gladky** » Mon May 22, 2017 3:29 am

It's been a while since I've posted my last custom here. Time to do something about it! Ladies and Gentlemen - I present you

Beast Wars Transmetal II Cheetor.

Video shows all the details of my figure as well as some WIP photos.

My custom is based on stock Transmetal II Cheetor. The figure had a lot of problems so first thing I needed to do was fixing them. I swapped the arms and removed armshield gimmick, which was replaced by magnets. I also filled the insights of the arms.

The figure got a new set of heels to make it look better in both modes. I also filled the screw hole on Cheetor's cheek. Now it looks much better. Talking about head - it was slightly modified and sanded so that both halves would match better.

Like most of my customs this one also got a lot of painted details. I always loved Transmetal II style of technoorganic hubrid. That's why I' ve decided to mix stylised fur and metallic elements. I didn't want my Cheetor to look like a normal Cheetah, so I replaced speckles with shaded, "dirty" fur, that seems much more natural for the character.

In robot mode figure got a lot of additional mods. Cheetor has new heels and modified knees so that figure could finally stand up straight.

I have redesigned elbows so that they have much more poseability than stock ones. I also did not like original wrists. That's why I shortened the arms and added new articulated segment with swievel (for beast mode in mind) and balljoint inside the hand.

I slightly altered head as well by adding new, bigger ears.

There is also a new tip of Cheetor's rocket engine on his back to make it look closer to cartoon counterpart.

I had to slightly alter Spark chamber as well. It got a whole new paintjob and fluorescent Maximal logo.

When all the mods were done I have painted the whole figure. I like painting small details on my customs so Cheetor got a lot of them as well. Whe whole paint scheme was supposed to blend fur and metallic pieces just like the original design and I am really pleased with the results. Hope you like it as well. If you enjoy my customs please feel free tu subscribe to my Youtube channel to be the first one to see them in action:)

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