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I'm still sick and stressed out and don't even want to contemplate future human or alien dwellings in the Star Trek universe, so Optimus it is.

While I'm nowhere near done detailing the Optimus Freightliner, I did need to make sure that the basics were covered so I carved up all the general shapes from the base cab and assembled a very rough robot mode.

He's missing some of the classic striping as it got moved around a bit, and I'm thinking his head is going to have to be black and not blue to match the rest of his body, but so far I'm not completely dis-illusion-ed with him. I carved out the 'cavity' in the back part of the cab (this gets covered up all the time with the steel reinforced back plates) where there was access tubes and etc. I'm thinking I won't go that involved with it, but the big engine block is probably going to become a large customized shotgun.

I'd originally planned to model out the guns from the Gen 2 toy, but, eh. I am going to make his trailer a reefer (refrigerated trailer for those not in trucking) and the reefer unit is going to become that flight jetpack that was his voice box in the toy. Granted this also means modeling out a 53 ft. reefer trailer, but hey, it's what I do for fun.

So, Vehicle mode checklist:
New front rims
Front wheel wells and trim
Windshield and wipers
Driver and passenger doors
More road friendly bumper with turn signals
Oregon license plates
Thin out his feet and fix the shape
New smokestacks that are more accurate to the late 70's/early 80's Freightliner
Rounded headlights and mounts
Roof lights and mounts
Roof Horns?
More accuracte gas tanks and strapping
Handrails and rear view mirrors on the cab
cut in the steps
Adjustments to the back of the legs to look more like the beams on a cabover
Make the lower legs thinner to better match the cab width
Model in the Fifth Wheel and mounts to that it can be split with the legs.

Built in TrueSpace 3.2
Original Masterpiece Optimus Prime design by Don Figueroa

Description
I'm still sick and stressed out and don't even want to contemplate future human or alien dwellings in the Star Trek universe, so Optimus it is.

While I'm nowhere near done detailing the Optimus Freightliner, I did need to make sure that the basics were covered so I carved up all the general shapes from the base cab and assembled a very rough robot mode.

He's missing some of the classic striping as it got moved around a bit, and I'm thinking his head is going to have to be black and not blue to match the rest of his body, but so far I'm not completely dis-illusion-ed with him. I carved out the 'cavity' in the back part of the cab (this gets covered up all the time with the steel reinforced back plates) where there was access tubes and etc. I'm thinking I won't go that involved with it, but the big engine block is probably going to become a large customized shotgun.

I'd originally planned to model out the guns from the Gen 2 toy, but, eh. I am going to make his trailer a reefer (refrigerated trailer for those not in trucking) and the reefer unit is going to become that flight jetpack that was his voice box in the toy. Granted this also means modeling out a 53 ft. reefer trailer, but hey, it's what I do for fun.

So, Vehicle mode checklist:
New front rims
Front wheel wells and trim
Windshield and wipers
Driver and passenger doors
More road friendly bumper with turn signals
Oregon license plates
Thin out his feet and fix the shape
New smokestacks that are more accurate to the late 70's/early 80's Freightliner
Rounded headlights and mounts
Roof lights and mounts
Roof Horns?
More accuracte gas tanks and strapping
Handrails and rear view mirrors on the cab
cut in the steps
Adjustments to the back of the legs to look more like the beams on a cabover
Make the lower legs thinner to better match the cab width
Model in the Fifth Wheel and mounts to that it can be split with the legs.

Built in TrueSpace 3.2
Original Masterpiece Optimus Prime design by Don Figueroa