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Hi guys!

Hopefully this is the right section for this - basically I've got an apocalypse game mid-December and I want to make a Chaos Reaver Titan...but I don't want to pay £££ for it. I happened to see this super-cheap Optimus Prime toy in my nearby supermarket last night and snatched it up - it was only £15, marked down from £30



No one in their right mind would pay £30 for this - the legs move a bit and the arms move up and down but that's it, the articulation is barely better than the original Star Wars toys. But it may serve as a base for a Titan

What I'm planning to do is:
- cut off the head, as that's where armor plating and the missile rack will go
- cut the arms off at the elblow, so I can fit different arm options on (to be held on with magnets)
- cut the model in half at the waist so I can fit magnets and washers (or something) to allow it to torso twist
- cut the legs at the knees and try to figure out articulation or a static pose
- try to figure out shoulder/arm articulation
- bulk up the legs with cardboard and hot glue
- add weights consisting of rocks or pebbles (held in place with hot glue) to the feet so it doesn't fall over
- make weapons pods for the arms: PVC tubing for plasma blastgun, styrene tubing for gatling blaster, styrene sheet for the powerclaw, sharpened artist's pencils for the missile rack, etc.
- add armor plating from cardboard and sheet styrene
- figure out a way to make a head that can detach and swivel in place (probably magnets)
- add Chaos symbols, hoses, horns, spikes, etc.
- paint it!

That's the rough list, and doesn't include painting...lotta work and I probably won't finish in time for the game but it should be fun anyway I'm not intending to make it a perfect copy of the Forgeworld titan, just something close enough to use for Apocalypse.

If anyone is curious, I got this at Sainsbury's in the UK. Morrison's have a cheap generic robot that lights up, it's £10 but about 13" tall, so roughly in between a Warhound and Reaver titan.

I guess the first update will be taking this sucker apart, cutting him up and getting him in a pose that works! I hope to have some parts laying about I can use for articulation, but I have to see what I can dig up.

I'm keeping the build thread here instead of on one of the sites in my signature so the guys I'm playing with won't know until the day, mwahahahaha

Hmmm... I may give my local Sainsb... wait, wait, what am I thinking? I don't even play Chaos!!! Looks like a fun project though.

Looks like a fun project.

I don't think pebbles in the feet will add the stability you are looking for. I'd go with something significantly denser. You need to bring the centre of mass down quite a long way, and pebbles will barely have any effect at all.

Thanks! You're probably right about the pebbles, I'm just trying to keep this cheap and buying lead wheel weights can be pricey

I'll also have to think about keeping the torso light - if it's able to turn I don't want much weight in the arms so the torso doesn't fall off! I think the shoulders will be the heaviest bits (I'm thinking bolts to make up the joints).