Mampy's Custom ROTF Optimus Prime - with removable swords and custom gun

More than a year after my last custom gallery, I'm back with the new Leader Class Optimus Prime from the Revenge of the Fallen toyline. It's an amazing figure and is definitely my favorite Transformer (and custom I've made) yet!

Without further ado, here are the pics!




Now for the weapons! I removed the dual swords and made them attachable with two sets of rare earth magnets each. I tried to emulate the "glowing hot steel" look of the swords in the movie by doing blending with orange and white paint. The gun was made from TFTM Leader Prime's gun and kibble from both the Leader and Voyager OPs. It also attaches very securely with two magnets. I'd love to do a second gun but I still have to find another junker OP to get it from. Anyone from the Philippines have his old, broken TFTM LC OP for sale at a cheap price? PM me.

Here is a groupshot of my customized movie 1 autobots, now with ROTF Prime and Bumblebee! I hope to add the newer ones from ROTF soon.



Check out an animated GIF of Prime transforming down there in the attachments section.


I'd like to say thanks to the following for their help in making this custom possible:
- dreadstar from Cybertron PH for help getting rare earth magnets
- devastator from Transformers Philippines for his junker TFTM LC OP
- Frenzy_Rumble, Encline, and Sabby of the Radicons for their inspiring paint jobs and mods on this mold
- SpurtReynolds for his blending/highlighting tutorial, which I tried to do for the dual swords

Thanks for looking and I hope you liked it! You may see more (higher res) pics of this and my other customs on my Photobucket and Flickr pages:
Pictures by mampynator - Photobucket
Flickr: mampynator's Photostream

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Err yeah.. I need some help here.

How do I make the pictures show up in full and not in thumbnails? Would that be better or should I just let it stay as it is because I have a ton of pictures and it would clog the thread up?

And, how do I change the "display picture" that shows up on the forum?

Thanks!

Wow, this is awesome!! I love the glow effect on the swords and the overall paintjob on prime is excellent!! Prime is definately my favourite mold from ROTF!!

I have to ask, how did you do the pinstriping around the flames??

Looking great !!! The swords are awesome, and the pinstripes are sweet too! Nice work on the gun as well.

Thanks guys! I'm glad you like it!

I did them by hand using a silver gel pen, then immediately sprayed a couple of coats of clearcoat to protect them because the gel ink never really dries. Others have gotten thinner lines by using a teeny weeny point brush, but I could never get consistent results with them.

I'll definately have to try using pens! I tried with a brush and it went horribly wrong so decided that my 1st ROTF Prime should become battle damaged, want to get another to have looking all nice and shiney!!

Yeah, I tried all sorts of brushes on my junker Robovision Prime before settling with the gel pen. You gotta be really careful not to touch any of the lines while using them though, or else you'll end up with silver smudges that are pretty hard to get out without damaging the paintjob.

Good luck!

Its perfect bro! from weapon to paint. your works are always movie accurate.

Fantastic work! I love that gif!!!

I agree. This is fantastic. Nice paint details on the head! And I, too, love that gif animation!