Building and installing the upper limbs
The shoulder with its pretty awful exhaust pipes was a bit of a weird setup to build. That still unclosed shiny, pointy bit in the first photo was the piece where the lower arm was attached later on. While working on this left arm, I didn't manage to attach all the four points, but it stayed tightly enough as it was.
Ion Blaster
Much more often than swinging his Energon Axe around like a mechanic viking, Optimus punctured his enemies full of holes with his ion gun. I would be lying at all if I said that I would have immensely enjoyed the axe as the weapon for this model. The Blaster was a surprisingly complicated thing, due to its shape and one of the barrel pieces remained looser than I wanted it to be, thanks to some very tight spacing to close the connectors properly. It was recognizeable and that was great.
As soon as the gun was built it was attached onto Optimus' right fist. This installation was tight and proper, and didn't shake loosely.
Now I knew to be extra careful when attaching the forearm to the upper arm. The image in the instructions was pretty foul, and it wasn't that clear (to me at least) if the key piece was supposed to go this, that or some other way. Adding to my state of concern was that if I installed the gun-arm rotated 180°, it'd look like the poor robot had his elbow uglily broken, pointing behind him.
Attaching the appendages
The right arm sat into its place just nicely, even though again the space to tighten the attachment pieces had become somewhat challenging. I managed to avoid making ugly scratches to the outer surfaces, which was also a positive thing, considering how much they would've shown.
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