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Old 01-12-2012, 12:44 AM   #1
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WIP TFCon Charity 2012 Optimus Primal

So here's the WIP thread for my Primal, as always looking for feedback and suggestions.

using the TFTM Stockade as my base mold, this is whats been done so far:

Step 1) Steal Primal pieces from Cybertron beast Prime
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Step 2) slide off Stockade's chest and put aside as we'll need the shoulders that make up the back of the car later.
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Step 3) make room for new head in Stockade's chest
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Step 4) Let's get an idea for how much room have to play around with...
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Step 5) Since we have lots of room by his wrist there, lets cut off the hands and use the punching/slide gimmick
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to replicate some pop out wrist blasters using these from TFTM Dropkick/Salvage
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Next step is to find some good Classicy hands (I'm thinking Straxus/Skullgrin if I can bare to cut mine up if someone's got one for cheap I can buy off you let me know) so that when he gets his swords he'll have some good pose-able hands.
Then bring out the dremel and start cutting exess plastic off his upper arms to make room for that chest plate.
Finally, see if I can classic-ify his boots some so they are less movie detailed.

Ideally, if there's room, I wanna try and work in some flip over cannons but that'll be a bonus.

So as I said, open to thoughts, ideas, critiques, yay/nay, and as always - free beer.
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Old 01-12-2012, 12:46 AM   #2
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Re: WIP TFCon Charity 2012 Optimus Primal

I'm liking the idea. I love anything with BW.... Wish my Tigatron would have turned out a few years ago, darn TFA Prowl mold issues
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Old 01-12-2012, 01:38 AM   #3
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Re: WIP TFCon Charity 2012 Optimus Primal

This is promising to be a great custom, bud! I can't wait to see how this comes along.
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Old 02-09-2012, 12:41 AM   #4
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Re: WIP TFCon Charity 2012 Optimus Primal

So made some good decent work on Primal now.

Couple Body shots (no not those type of body shots):

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and My favorite part - reworking the punch gimmick to be Primal's pop out wrist guns:

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As always, comments/crits etc...
Just having to make a few repairs to the other arm as one of the elbow pegs snapped. Then it's time to get him ready for paint.
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Old 02-09-2012, 01:01 AM   #5
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Re: WIP TFCon Charity 2012 Optimus Primal

I love hove you added the chest details! It really brings it all together. And the pop out arm guns is great! It's little touches like that that I love to try and work into these charity pieces.

I'd say you've got a winner here, CyberMnky.
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Old 02-09-2012, 07:56 PM   #6
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Re: WIP TFCon Charity 2012 Optimus Primal

So Beast Wars Movieverse is this year's TFCon charity set....Awesome.

I'm liking everything about Primal so far. Keep up the good job.
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