Old ideas, new post

I'm losing my mind, what with Botcon coming up and me being crazy enough to fly out to California to attend it. I'm stoked about the boxset and attendee only figures. Thunder Clash is especially grabbing my notice. He's not my favorite in the boxset, but he did open the door for me into the world of the European Turbomasters. Now that my buddy Eric's helped to shine a more positive light on them as well, my interest in them has been piqued enough to try my hand at customizing a few of my extra classics into some of the other characters to expand upon the boxset. The first idea I'm totally stealing from Eric-Boss. Co-leader of the Turbomasters, how much more awesome can you get than a guy who just calls himself Boss? The biggest problem I'm going to have is not being able to fully replicate that cool looking batmobile appearance he has in vehicle form. On the upside, Universe Sunstreaker/Sideswipe made a perfect base, complete with window-chests and the leg alignment. Swap out the head and viola! I'm also looking to try my hand at Scorch, who I think will be an easy enough custom using Universe Prowl as a base.
Aaaanyway, I was poking through my photobucket account and found some old customs. Pictures are bad, but I blame my old, cruddy camera. I'll have to dig through my boxes and take new pics.
First up, Skullcruncher. I LOVED the Botcon 2007 attendee exclusive of Weirdwolf, and was dying to update the other headmasters. Cybcertron Beast Megatron is BEGGING for Skullcruncher's colorscheme.


Snapdragon (managed to update this and snap some pics with my good camera)




And what's Snapdragon without Apeface? I had the bright idea to try to cram the TF movie Dropkick's head on Cybertron Beast Primal's body, but the head is just too small, and the connection port does not want to close over the neck connection's nub. The result is Apeface's robot mode looking like a bobblehead. In hindsight, I should have just left the regular Primal head, who says Apeface *needs* to keep his original G1 appearance? Although I probably would fill in that mouth and give him a faceplate.


And here's something I haven't seen anyone try; Reverse Convoy. I *REALLY* want to grab one of those oversized tank Megatron K.O's I've seen floating around the TF forums because as a leader. he should be huge, but this made for a fun trial run. I just repainted the tank Megatron from the Prime/Megs Universe 2-pack, but really need to play around with varying the blues and maybe adding some more strategic black. I *am* happy with the head gimmick though. It's just Megatron's head, with Prime's face glued to the back of it. Flipped one way, Reverse Convoy with Prime head, flip the other way, it's true Reverse Convoy with Meg-head. I think the ideal thing would be to have some kind of helmet/visor that could hide the extra face.