Fortress Maximus has always been a favorite character of mine. I even suggested to Aaron Archer at the Botcon Hasbro panel last year that they make an updated Fort Max character. At the end of the show I caught him at one of his tables and showed it to him up close hoping that it would spark some inspiration. Without further adieu, I present Cybertron Defense Fortress Maximus.
Keeping with tradition, his head is a Headmaster with added sculpy, and it still transforms. I used the front part of Red Alert's head, heavily modified, then attached it to a Headmaster head. FM can still transform as well, just very, very carefully. His chest is partially made of Bendy Prime's under chestplate and my own sculpy sculpting skills for the top part of his chest.
As for A. Archer, he just stared at it and might have given some kind of polite comment, but I can't remember now. I was leaving the show so I interrupted about 4 or 5 people that were waiting on him to draw sketches and autograph them. I showed him my Golden Age Cybertron Primus at the same time so his attention was kinda split.
...............................................................................................................
