Been a while But I've had a few projects on the go in the meantime. Here is the first of the backlog, a project you've seen at least a dozen times by now: Thunderclash! The head is swapped over from a POTP Inferno, with the ears carved up a tiny bit for some added visual appeal I used the Reprolabels conversion set as the basis of this project which I then augmented and enhanced with paint. After all, this conversion wouldn't be possible without that chest crest, which I should get a smaller and less free Autobrand on. I might paint the rims in future. I'm leaning towards gun metal, like the grill, but gold wouldn't be out of place. I mean, it is Thunderclash. Combined mode is a completely unnecessary bonus in my book. I painted the head and thighs a bit, but I don't even care what this mode's name is. Hyperdrive? The Clash at Demonhead? Besides, even the Breastforce, with its glaring 80's anime hues, looks completely out of place on him. And customizing 4 or 5 more Turbomasters for the sake of I mode I do not care for? Forget that. I mean, I want to do a Rotorstorm, but for the Wreckers, not a combiner. Thanks for looking. Up next, my second favourite big, pink-windowed, hero-truck; armed and ready for a cinematic...Face-Off
I put random Lost Light crew on him - Smokescreen, Trailbreaker, Hound, Sunstreaker... and then Rodimus can be a very very unhappy chestplate.
Shoulder thingies! Custom projects are never finished, or at least mine never are. I made some polystyrene gold shoulder squares for the Clash at Thunderhead based on his appearance in the IDW comics. I also went to the trouble of replace his Toyhax-freebie Autobot symbol with a white backed one, since half the reason I made him Thunderclash was for the chest logo. The other half being his colours that look so horrible they look back around infinity and look super appealing to me.
Amazing. It still baffles me that we never even had the TFCC make a Thunderclash or for that matter MAchine Wars Optimus Prime from the mold due to how well this mold fits the two.
I'm glad you revisited this, I missed it the first time around. Fantastic work! I'm currently waiting on delivery of a Reprolabels conversion set, and the Inferno head is a brilliant touch.
Cool idea! I don't have the means to pull off that big of a project, but I'm also not the only one whose done this conversion. I'd love to see someone else take a stab at it.
Greetings! How did you manage to pop infernos head on where it actually fits, along with fixing the head not properly fitting during transformation. Thanks!
This was a while ago now, and I swapped Prime's head with Inferno's so I might mix a few things up. As I recall, Inferno's head was glued together and was easy to split apart by running an exacto knife down the seam. Prime's head was also glued together, but had a few locating pegs I accidentally cut when trying to split his head. It still went back together fine and it's totally unnoticeable now, but just a heads up. The ball joint which connect the necks to the heads are two different sizes. I don't remember which was bigger, but it felt like the difference of one millimeter or less. It was a small enough discrepancy that adding a little super glue to one socket and scraping away at the other made them both fit well. As for fitment in the torsos, Thunderclash had zero problems. My Pyro, on the other hand, was a hair too wide and got filed down accordingly. I also trimmed the crest on the Prime head significantly, so that may have been an issue if I hadn't. I don't know.
I’ll try filing down the ball joint for the head, and maybe that will also fix my tolerance issue with the head barely fitting.
Trimmed down the neck area on the torso and eventually just cut off the ball joint, and super glued it back on. That did the trick and the head has enough clearance now. Painting is done so I’ve just got to order the sticker set for him.
Rims, finally! I have a bad habit of getting a figure 95% complete and being so excited to get it done that I miss something minor. This time, that something minor was Thundy C's rims, which are now a subtle gun metal with gold centres. The lighting was pretty unkind to the difference between the actual-black tires and and almost-black rims, but it does look good in person. It's not accurate to anything: G1, MTMTE, or 3rd party. It just made sense with all the other gun metal on him, like his grill, knees, wrists, amd other little sprinkles here and there.
