hi guys! this is my first custom, i allways wondered why a important character like Unicron never had an official G1 release, so i made one myself. i took Darth Vader / Death Star Crossover and transformed into unicron, it took a little time, a little money and a little work, but it sure paid out! i can nearly resume this in a mastercard commercial cliché... Darth vader crossover - 20€ 2 cans of spray paint - 5€ modeling paste - 2€ the felling of adding something to the transformer world... Priceless if you think i can improve something, or want to express an opinion please do =) i will apreciate my english is not the best, i'm portuguese, but hope you guys can understand
LOVE the wood-screws-as-spikes Does he strill transform withthe giant horns? I would be curious to know why you decided to use Vader instead of Unicron as your base figure (You're not the first!) I think Vader is over all a slightly better toy, but the Unicron Mold is really pretty nice. I'm interested in knowing your creative-thinking Everyting you sculpted came out pretty good, the abdomen area is especially nice. For a first-project, this is really very good!
This looks really good, especially for it being your first custom. Great execution of concept too. Perhaps, you could take it a step further and dry brush all grey parts to be gun metal ? Prime them black first, then dry brush the gunmetal paint on top.
Yes is still fully transformable, the horns are detachable, to be used in planet mode. I have chosen vader for several reasons, easier to get, it transforms in a ball (not like armada unicron), the sculpt needed was easier, and was realy cheap (20€ shipped). maybe i can get the armada unicron fists and some elements of the waist so i can keep this as near as possible of the g1 also, there is a lot of detail missing, but i was out of white paint
i didn't mesure, but somewhere beetween 27cm/32cm in robot mode and a 17 to 22cm of diameter in planet mode
I think my only concern is with the screws just left there. Do you plan on dulling those down at all? Overall though, a fantastic job. Can't wait for more pictures as painting goes on. Also would like to see a couple of comparison shots to either G1 figures or some Classics. I honestly have no idea how tall the Death Star crossover is.
let's see some of those planet mode pictures the vader was a good choice to start with, i like the proportions more than armada unicron
Copy cat lol good work so far, i know how much work it takes to do this as this is mine i did a little while ago My thread is on here somewhere Keep up the great work ill be keeping an eye on this
