I managed to snag a couple of Furai Model OP (IDW) while I was on a trip to America earlier this year. One I gave to a friend, the other I kept.

About 10 years ago I took an extra Classics Optimus Prime and painted it by hand into Thunderclash. It wasn't a bad job per se but it was an incompetent one and I could never get the windows right. However, since over the past few years I've got big into Gunpla and scale modelling (the reason I'm not around here so much as TFs just don't hold as much interest now), you can be damn sure I was going to paint the Furai OP. So naturally my eyes fell on my Thunderclash and I decided it was time to revisit it.

Canon-wise IDW OP is an odd choice for Thunderclash but I still had fun doing this and it looks good. The whole thing was painted with various SMS lacquers.