More Customs!

More customs and things of that sort.
First, more updated Headmasters I created a long while ago. The basic story jumps off the bio for the Botcon Weirdwolf, in which Weirdwolf and his partner Monzo were separated. Because the procedure was new and hastily done, it left Weirdwolf a little more, well, weird. I applied this to SnapDragon, Apeface, and Skullcruncher. The idea being that the procedure was improved and reworked, then used to separate the other Headmaster animals from their partners. The catch though, is that their fighting abilities are only at their peak if they're within close proximity of one another. So even if they argue over something, they'd be extremely reluctant to go their separate ways because they'll become overwhelmed by a diminished feeling. That and after you've been that close for that long... I equate it to the episode of Family Guy where Stewie and Brian wound up glued to each other. After their hands are finally unglued, they walk off holding hands anyway.

The second part of these customs, should I ever go back to them, would be to repaint some minicons into their respective partners.

Apeface, a good learning experience, especially in regards to the robot head. I yanked it off a TF Movie Dropkick because of how much it reminded me of the G1 Apeface's original look, but it was just too small. The way it's set up, you can't simply swap out the Cybertron Primal's head with Dropkick, it sits atop the ball joint and wabbles horribly. Because I'm impatient and not really into doing major modifications, I just left it as is. Oh well.



Snapdragon. I'm much happier with the way he turned out. To me, the Classics Grimlock mold works great at being everything *except* Grimlock.


And Skullcruncher. I've always loved his original figure, but I was amazed by how well the Cybertron Megatron works as an upgrade.


Oh yes, I never posted finished pictures of Boss. Now that I actually have the Botcon set that includes Thunderclash and the rest, I look at my custom and think he's a little bright and glossy, but ah well, what are you going to do? Here we are:




And Snare, who I think *really* works well standing next to the Botcon Skyquake:

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.

MP Grimlock!

I wrenched Masterpiece Grimlock from the clumsy, incompetent hands of the postal workers today, worth every second of the frustration they caused! As for Grimmy, he's worth every penny, I lucked out and got a great deal on him, but wouldn't have regretted paying full rpice for him one bit. Despite all the griping the general TF community has done over him being smaller than the previously produced Masterpiece figures, he ranks as one of the all-time best figures in my opinion. To be honest, if he had come out and stood as tall as Masterpiece Optimus, I would have been annoyed that he didn't TOWER over Optimus like he's supposed to. So with that in mind, MP Grimlock may be the runt of the MP litter, but you couldn't ask for a more accurate and better fit for your TF Classics collection.




In dino mode, not even custom Snapdragon and Skullcruncher stand a chance...


Robot mode is PERFECT when placed next to Classics Prime.


Hey you!


That right, me Grimlock talkin' to you!


Okay, so Grimlock's still not quite the king of all, but he comes pretty close.