Optimus Prime
 

Alright, I'm somewhat holding off on the dagger for now, realizing just how rusty my modeling skills really are. I need some practice, bad. I decided to also work on a model of Optimus Prime. I only have the head started at the moment. Going to go ahead and refine and perfect what I have of the head so far, then create a different mesh for the helmet, then move on from there. Nothing really so far, but any comments? I've always been a big fan of Transformers, especially watchin Generation 1 as a kid, but I'm sure there are some much bigger fans out there so I want your input! Also, you'll notice you can see the difference in shading on some of the segments.. is there anyway i can set faces so that their normals are pointing the exact same direction and there is no difference in specularity, still looks like the same shape? It's 44 a.m. so I don't know how much sense that makes.

Anyway, here it is.

Got my reference pictures from seibertron.com, awesome site.
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The reference of the front of the head:

oh no swet on the dagger project man! I have about 20 projects unfinished right now because I underestemated my skills...Im working with maya for about 3 months now and I keep learning from everysingel unfinished project I start... so no shame for the dagger....
just go with the flow and try this one out!
sofar nice head... ...try to loose those edges that stop on the mouthcap against the big triangles..if you know what i mean..
goodluck further!
GreetZZ

RanSicK