LAST TIME, ON ZOMBIE WARS.... Rattrap became infected with a dormant virus while scouting with Tigatron in the northern parts of prehistoric Earth. While Tigatron himself was not infected, Rattrap fell in, and returned to base, where he found Rhinox. Distressed, Rhinox rushed his friend to the CR chamber. However, Rhinox was too late, as when the cycle was done, Rattrap had turned completely into a zombie! Rattrap turned Rhinox, and the two continued through the Axalon hunting for unturned Transformers... Episode 3 (zombie Cheetor) The next Maximal to turn was Cheetor. Rattrap found Cheetor in his room, and crept into it, moaning. Alarmed, Cheetor questioned his teammate, and tried to get him to snap out of his trance. Yet, Cheetor was unable to persuade the already zombiefied Rattrap. As a final attempt, Cheetor fired a blast from his rifle that blew off one of Rattrap's legs. However, this did not stop the zombie whatsoever! Rattrap bit Cheetor, and Cheetor changed immediately as the virus' infection rate escalated. Now infected, Cheetor converted to beast mode, burst from the window of the Axalon, and went hunting for more Transformers to turn.... CUSTOMIZATIONS.... In addition to zombiefying this figure, I made sure to incorporate some robotic elements that I had not in previous figures. This figure did not have Cheetor's second blaster (the one made from his intestines?), so I replaced it with a bundle of wires, which look like intestines. I also removed the cheetah's jaw, and gave the upper mandible teeth. Makes him look much scarier! In addition, I also textured his fur in places, and made it looked ruffled/knotted. Still a work in progress! (Zombie Cheetor's pictures are below) Episode 4 (zombie Dinobot) Rhinox stumbled from room to room, searching for the next victim. He first came into Optimus Primal's quarters....but found....nothing...Primal was away on a mission, and completely unaware of the viral plague that was ravaging his crew. Still seeking a victim, Rhinox continued through the Axalon, and made his way into Dinobot's quarters, where Dinobot was simulating combat with a holographic program. In a brief attempt to welcome his comrade, Dinobot realized that there was something drastically wrong, and that Rhinox was no longer his trusted compatriot! Dinobot took offensive action, and thrust his sword through Rhinox, pinning him to the wall, rendering the zombie helpless. Dinobot now puzzled, intrigued that the runthrough did not kill this monster-Rhinox. Dinobot deduced that by destroying Rhinox's central processor was the only means of permanently stopping him; Dinobot charged his optical lasers, and aimed for Rhinox's head. Zombie Rhinox struggled to free himself, but to no avail. As Dinobot was about to fire, from behind him, he was attacked by none other than his rival, Rattrap! Rattrap bit deep into Dinobot's leg, and the zombie virus was uploaded into Dinobot's operating system. Dinobot crumpled to the ground, and turned into a zombie! Rattrap pulled Dinobot's sword free from Rhinox and threw it on the ground, next to Dinobot, who was convulsing as his body died and rebooted as a zombie. The three Maximal zombies ventured from the Axalon, their new directive: seek out and destroy/turn the Predicons! CUSTOMIZATIONS.... The main thing I will keep working on with this figure is his hands; I detached Dinobot's hands, and put ball joints on his forearms so that the hands are able to swivel at the wrist. However, the hands are (at this point) not yet sturdy enough to actually hold anything; yet this does work almost, since he is a zombie, as his hands keep falling off! Ideally, I would have created a zombie out of the Universe Dinobot figure, but those are getting harder and harder to find! To make this figure more Dinobot-like, I specifically modded the head before doing any zombiefying to look more show accurate. Z-Dinobot has 2 specific zombie features: the raptor head is half skull (whittled away the top layer of plastic, and then retooled it to look like a velociraptor skull!), which then was covered in some places with a putrefied skin; the other feature is his tail weapon, which I repurposed into a rotting mess. Instead of including the bone sword with this figure, the bone is built into the tail, and actually looks like the tail has been split open!
Yes, yes. The pictures loaded sideways for some reason. I uploaded them upright. Not sure how to change it! As of 5/25, the sideways problem has been fixed. Not sure what the problem was!
