That's quite good for a first effort.

As liegeprime said, it needs more lighting. That looks like it was shot in the day time but the blinds/curtain was drawn - open them. Switch on any indoor lights in that room and if it's still too dark, use something like a desklamp. Trust me, you can never have enough light. And as Soundwarp said, the camera angle needs to be adjusted to see the entire toy. dirge already pointed out that it's not an actual direct repaint and that there is a mould variation.

Also FYI G1 Swindle is a 1986 figure, not 1985. The "funky languages" in the instructions are English, Spanish and French.

You said, "The head can actually rotate down to the chest which is quite weird." - firstly, the head swings down, it doesn't rotate ('rotate' means to spin/turn), secondly you later go on to explain the reason for it in the arm mode... so how is it weird?