Mampy's Custom ROTF Optimus Prime!

[mampy]

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! Click on the thumbnails to view the larger versions.


Alt mode pics:





Bot mode pics:




Now come the fun part, 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's an animated GIF of Prime transforming:


Here is a groupshot of my customized movie autobots, now with ROTF Prime and Bumblebee!


You may see more pics of my previous customs on my Photobucket and Flickr pages:
s280.photobucket.com/albums/kk180/mampynator/
www.flickr.com/photos/mampy/

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!

[Mykonos07]

Great paintworks! Love the weathering you did on Prime!

Great Job!

[sircastico]

cool custom...like the gun the best!

[mampy]

Thanks guys! I'm glad you like it

[geof]

Hi sir i just want to ask if you removed all the parts of prime then painted it?? or you just covered the parts you dont want to paint?? is there a work shop i can attend to learn how to do this?? this is a beautiful custom paint!!

[mampy]

Thanks!

Well I disassembled him into several main parts - thighs, lower legs, feet, main torso, arms, hands, etc. to make painting them easier. But yeah I also did a lot of masking off especially with the lower legs because some parts are very difficult to disassemble.

AFAIK Action Figures Philippines recently held a one-day event/workshop on customizing but there are no regular workshops of this kind. There are a lot of resources on the net, however, devoted to customizing (a lot of them especially focused on customizing TFs).

Check out Jin Saotome's Dangerous Toys, he has a very good TF customizing tutorial and tutorials about the basics of customizing. Also go to the Radicons section of TFW2005.com, they have a lot of tutorials as well. You may also be able to find some on Youtube. Good luck!

If all else fails, certain customizers (like me) also accept commissions to customize your toys for you (aheheh shameless plug).

[geof]

hi again just wondering how much would a sideswipe would cost(commission)?? thanks so much

[mampy]

Jul 17, 2009 18:56:37 GMT 8 geof said:

hi again just wondering how much would a sideswipe would cost(commission)?? thanks so much

PM sent bro.