TRANSFORMERS MOC/MOD: Nova Prime!

[Mandalorianknight]

My next step towards designing a transformer from scratch scaled to optimus prime, a "retool" of 10302, Nova Prime. Takara/Hasbro, like lego, has a budget, and as a result, it's cheaper for them to alter the molds of an existing figure rather than make wholly new ones, which they call retools. This leads to characters that are different enough from just recolors, but share the same fundamental engineering of the figure, which is what I did here with Optimus and Nova Prime:

You probably immediately notice 2 things: 1: Nova Prime has wings and 2: Nova Prime is absolutely STRAPPED. His weapon loadout here is generally based on the new Legacy figure, though I gave him an extra one you'll see later. He has here two sort of minigun/chainguns attached to his underarms, two wrist-mounted blasters, and two shotguns holstered on his legs.

Nova Prime is a little larger in every dimension than Optimus, having wider arms, legs, and shoulders, being slightly taller in the legs even without the wings, and having a torso that sticks out a bit more.

Here he is in Cybertronian truck mode, alongside his wingpack, which I made transform a bit into a bird guy I'm calling Wingspan. 

Wingspan should be able to balance precariously here, though I haven't tested IRL with these exact parts, just general mass. Oh, and Nova Prime definately isn't back heavy, the official optimus is front-heavy if anything.

parry this, mudskuffers

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To compare, I removed Wingspan and his guns, recolored him, and sat him next to the official optimus to show you the alterations

 

Anyway, next up is Megatron, 100% from scratch instead of using an Optimus base, though it'll take some time.