ROTF Leader Megatron Work In Progress

[joshimus]

While i'm sure i'm not the only one to want to fix him or have, I decided to finally kickstart this project i've been meaning to do for ages.
Ok, so thing about this guy is the toy is lame, bulky, bigass cannon arm with no posability and a gimp arm on the other side. Never understood why Megs got shafted when his large size has so much more possibilities.


This pic is an overall shot of him and his arm (broke a part that attaches the one arm so I need to figure out how to fix that) His gimp arm is too long now so i'll have to shorten it.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/My%20Custom%20toys/ROTF%20Megatron/Megs1.jpg

The last 3 are his cannon arm which is no longer JUST a massive unposable cannon, it now also has a hand and the weapon (cannon needs to still be mounted) flips around and the hand tucks inside for his secondary blaster weapon thingy.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/My%20Custom%20toys/ROTF%20Megatron/Megs2.jpg
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/My%20Custom%20toys/ROTF%20Megatron/Megs3.jpg
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/My%20Custom%20toys/ROTF%20Megatron/Megs4.jpg
I shaved down the 2 sides of the uppertank to make the claw to be even. Right now they are split but I will make a peg so that they snap together. I'm pretty happy that I got the hand to tuck inside,

Still obviously a work in progress as new parts have no paint and i'll have to redo him anyway. He also now has waist articulation which i'll add parts to fill in the gap a bit as well.
Overall, pretty happy with where he is going.

[payton34]

Everybody seems to use those same claw hands, aren't they from a Spawn figure or something? They fit the mold perfectly.

Looking good so far. Like you said, ROTF Megs doesn't seem to get enough love (because the base figure is such a brick) but it's great to see custom versions of him done right. Keep it up!

[joshimus]

It's from the combiner from 2000, the hands. Who else uses them? I haven't seen any other customs other than the direct repaints or TF1 Megatrons arms. Meh, whatever works.
My biggest things to fix right now are his arm cannon and making his waist work properly. He' top heavy even w/o electronics and batteries and the balljoint doesn't seem to be strong enough. Make have to try something stronger.
Overall, I don't really care if he can transform though I am trying to keep it under consideration, but really the toys is just awful to begin with so i'd rather have a better robot mode than vehicle.