Majestic Studio 1/6 scale Battlestar Galactica Cylon Centurion (Reworked)

Vong vong.... vong vong... by your command (with a robotic, mechanic, monotone voice). The Cylon Centurion captures my wildest imagination when I was just a small boy watching Battlestar Galactica on TV.

From Wikipedia :
Military androids with silver armor. Basic Centurions make up the ground forces and pilots of the Alliance military. Although Earth's Roman Centurions commanded a unit of eighty men, Cylon Centurions form the rank and file of the Cylon forces.

Centurions are armed with a powerful energy weapon, often referred to as a blaster rifle. They also have bayonets and swords for close combat and the execution of prisoners.

Some Centurions in the series have been given names: Flight Leader Serpentine from "Saga of a Star World", Centuri from "The Night the Cylons Landed" (Galactica 1980), and Cyrus from "The Return of Starbuck" (also Galactica 1980). In the episode "The Lost Warrior", there is a Cylon Centurion that remained active after its ship crashed on the planet Equellus and was named "Red Eye" by the humans who found it.

The Cylon Centurions – the type most often depicted in the original Battlestar Galactica — were strikingly similar to the Imperial stormtroopers of Star Wars (in fact, both were designed by the same concept artist, Ralph McQuarrie). The similarities were so strong that it was one of the factors that prompted 20th Century Fox's lawsuit for copyright infringement against Universal Studios, owners of the Battlestar Galactica copyright. However, the lawsuit was ultimately unsuccessful.

Both the gold Command Centurions and the silver Centurions had their voices vocalized with the use of an EMS Vocoder 2000.

Bought this Cylon Centurion 10 years ago in 2005 and found the figure pretty strange. It is out of proportion ie with long gorilla like arms, and the articulations are stiff and bad. Decided to tear it down with the intention of swapping over with another better articulated body. I break it down alright and chuck away the body. But the parts stayed inside a box and got stored away until Sep 2015.

Cylon Centurion parts were "rediscovered" when I opened up my drawer and thought there are no better time than now to reinstate this childhood fantasy.
Used a Dragon Model (DML) body as a based to start putting (and fitting) every piece of gear back on. Because the arm of the DML body is of proportion, I have to cut 2 sections of the arm black tubing for it to fit.
The chest piece was originally only secured by a piece of velcro sewed onto the spandex black suit and it kinda swivel freely after mounting. I proceed to add nylon straps to both side of the chest piece to secure it around the chest Now it sits firmly.
Lastly, when I searched online picts of this figure, noticed some had the butt toga when some doesn't. It baffles me a little and after some research found the answer. Turn out Amok Time also does release a 1/6 Cylon Centurion and it seems like exactly the same as Majestic Studio's release EXCEPT Amok Time's version had the butt toga while Majestic Studio's doesn't. Cylon Centurion does have the butt toga as I remember very vividly watching the series. So I fabricated one and my Majestic Studio's Cylon now has it.
Lastly, the neck post of the head was also modified and reinforce so as to enable mounting onto a DML's neck post.

I am pretty satisfied with the rework and now it stood proudly amid my small cohort of Hot Toys movie characters. Still have the Gold Cylon Centurion to meddle with but that has not been broken down yet. Maybe soon...