Leader Megatron As He SHOULD Have Been Designed WITH NEW PICS!
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:22 pmI detest this figure. After what must have been a colossal amount of work to design Leader Class Optimus Prime this poor effort is a sore disappointment. One oversized arm (with NO ELBOW) and one scrawny tiny arm. Can't look to the side. Two thumbs that start at the elbow and only one finger that's so stupidly long it's really only good for flipping people off or picking your nose. Seriously, Hasbro, WTF? I waited until this guy was at half price and then, within minutes of getting him out of the box I was applying a scalpel and hacksaw with vigor and abandon.
1) Improve neck joint so he can look to the sides. He could already look up.
2) Give his right arm an elbow with swivel joint.
3) Reduce size of oversized arm by attaching the shield to the back pack on moving arms. The spring loaded blade still works and the two halves of the shield sit lower in tank mode, giving it a slightly sleeker look and a vastly improved robot mode.
4) Build up left arm using off-cuts from the right arm.
5) Build a new left hand with five fingers and rotating wrist. This was done with a Neo Shifter hand, off-cuts from Megatron's cannon and a thumb left over from Barricade.
6) Black base coat.
7) Five layers of drybrushing using dark, medium and bright metallic greys.
8 ) Gold details.
9) Red, blue and copper wires or pipes
10) Rust from his two years of laying dead on the ocean floor between films. To get this effect I used layers of dull yellow, brownish orange, reddish brown and dark brown with a hint of red.
He took my so long to do I actually got fed up with him and couldn't wait to finish. He was well worth every second of effort! I've produced a few works that really stand out because they surprise me with how good they look and have taught me things about this hobby and advanced my technique. This is one of those and I hope you like my effort!
You'll need to right click and select 'view image' for some of these.
From this:
To this:
Trying to emulate this:
What do you think? Did I succeed?
There are loads more pictures here so please take a look and leave comments!
1) Improve neck joint so he can look to the sides. He could already look up.
2) Give his right arm an elbow with swivel joint.
3) Reduce size of oversized arm by attaching the shield to the back pack on moving arms. The spring loaded blade still works and the two halves of the shield sit lower in tank mode, giving it a slightly sleeker look and a vastly improved robot mode.
4) Build up left arm using off-cuts from the right arm.
5) Build a new left hand with five fingers and rotating wrist. This was done with a Neo Shifter hand, off-cuts from Megatron's cannon and a thumb left over from Barricade.
6) Black base coat.
7) Five layers of drybrushing using dark, medium and bright metallic greys.
8 ) Gold details.
9) Red, blue and copper wires or pipes
10) Rust from his two years of laying dead on the ocean floor between films. To get this effect I used layers of dull yellow, brownish orange, reddish brown and dark brown with a hint of red.
He took my so long to do I actually got fed up with him and couldn't wait to finish. He was well worth every second of effort! I've produced a few works that really stand out because they surprise me with how good they look and have taught me things about this hobby and advanced my technique. This is one of those and I hope you like my effort!
You'll need to right click and select 'view image' for some of these.
From this:
To this:
Trying to emulate this:
What do you think? Did I succeed?
There are loads more pictures here so please take a look and leave comments!
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Nice work man!!!
I'm curious as to what paints you used( Gw or testors?) Very nice layering also.. Epic...