The usual things I do with these figures. Cut up and murdered the silly tail-pull missile puking gimmick and set a swivel joint in so his head can turn in robot mode, filled his mouth hole with a sculpted face in a Texas/cowboy style with handlebar mustache and goatee (similar to one of his comics appearances) then repainted him to have a more detailed bot mode and more realistic bison mode while trying to keep the general character intact.
Nice attempt! I think the original toy is very hard to work with, due to the poor sculpting on it, so you've had your work cut out for you!
Hmm... maybe its just my attachment from so many years ago when I first got and loved the figure but I always thought the sculpt and design in both modes on this guy was better than probably more than half of the other pre-transmetal BW figures that ever existed. Bot head is just a bit too big.
Haha, is it stupid? I thought a western cowboy look fit him. I could make the bottom of the stash connect to his chin strap goatee more like the comic picture but then he'd have one of those stone cold Steve Austin wrestler goatees instead.
Awesome. Can you elaborate on how you added the head swivel? I'm thinking about attempting this myself now.
Haha I hoped so. And really I don't even mind how big his bot head is because bison's have huge-ass heads too. True. And I bet bison's do stank. I cut out a swivel joint from one of the many classics grimlock torsos in my fodder box (but any swivel joint not too large would do) then cut all the bars on hinges to get the Bonecrusher head off, cut the remaining bits left from those mechanisms off, trimmed it all nice and flat, cut out a shape to fit the new joint into the head in just the right place so that it could sit flush in alt mode, cut a segment out of the black long part the head was mounted onto where I could set the new joint into, and used sculpt to get it all together. Biggest challenge was making sure everything fit perfectly in alt mode and the head had clearance and was level enough to smoothly turn on the joint. Pic of the process attached. If you need me to, I can remove one of his alt mode side panels and get you a clear side view photo of how it all sits inside the bison mode.
