I decided to do a little parts swapping on my wip custom and came up with a better transformation for Cheetor that allows the sleek cheetah legs and a better (but still flawed) robot mode foot. Now that I have this basic formula down, i'll buy another set of the Universe and original Cheetors and make my final version. I'll most likely add some subtle paint apps to the areas of the beast mode legs that become the toes to further differentiate them.
Hey that totally works! My brain is seeing knee nubs for feet so maybe they could be modded with robot foot tips or something without hurting beast mode much? But other than that it looks great proportionally.
I almost don't want to spoil the simplicity of the transformation. I was thinking of using some well placed paint apps rather than adding more parts.
Yeah that would do it I think. Maybe just sand the fur texture away at the tips and paint them gold or something? That probably wouldn't stand out in beast mode much either. I can't tell how this works from the few pics but I sure want to know! If this is not much larger than the original deluxe cheetor in bot mode, I would love to do the same and replace my Cheetor. Awesome work.
Much better, still don't like that head but it is closer to the animation model. Good work making a turd figure shine!
I've always wondered if this figure's legs and feet were assembled incorrectly. Having them the way you did it, it actually makes feet for the robot mode and puts the cheetah hair on the inside of the lower legs just like on the original toy and show model. The official transformation looked wrong as hell and gave him big silly clown cat feet.
I am definitely trying this when I get home tonight! I have extras of both figures that I've been trying to come up with how to cobble together and get the best of both molds, and I think you nailed it! Are there any major tricks to getting the legs to fit together, or the Universe beast head on the original body?
I love this. Will you post about how you did it, OP? I see that the beast/robot head, front beast legs, and thighs down are from the Universe one, but I'm curious on how you connected the beast legs and head onto the original BW mold.
how did you do the beast legs? i mean, the fron beast legs, though looking at it closer, it looks like the torso is form the original bw mold