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I've got the perfect color yellow paint for those rims. I'm going to have to get it in hand (on its way from BBTS already) to see what I can do about the rest. I need to make the red much darker and that purple really needs a touch up.

I'm not sure if I'll mess with the details on the bot mode or not as I plan on primarily displaying him in vehicle mode.

xyl360 wrote:I've got the perfect color yellow paint for those rims. I'm going to have to get it in hand (on its way from BBTS already) to see what I can do about the rest. I need to make the red much darker and that purple really needs a touch up.

I'm not sure if I'll mess with the details on the bot mode or not as I plan on primarily displaying him in vehicle mode.

Please put pics up when you do haha

crazyjeffy wrote:

xyl360 wrote:I've got the perfect color yellow paint for those rims. I'm going to have to get it in hand (on its way from BBTS already) to see what I can do about the rest. I need to make the red much darker and that purple really needs a touch up.

I'm not sure if I'll mess with the details on the bot mode or not as I plan on primarily displaying him in vehicle mode.

Please put pics up when you do haha

I'll have to get a new camera before I can. The cheapy one I bought crapped out on me and won't even turn on any more .

I got KO in hand today from BBTS. I haven't painted him yet, but I still feel he needs it (that red is far brighter than it is on the show and that purple needs some more 'purple' and less gray and needs to be metallic). He also needs some chrome/silver along the sides of the front fenders/bumper and his windows need to be blacked out.

Now, all that being said, I transformed him without referring to the instructions (which I've been told are wrong) and all I can say is WOW ! It actually looks really really good and far closer to his show model than I thought it would.

I clipped the front fenders into place on his chest so that they're at a slightly downward angle and got them pushed in as close together as I could and I did up his arms as best I could to emulate the look on the show and he looks pretty darn show accurate (aside from the obvious issues with paint apps and the missing yellow fins inside the chest pieces).

OK, I got him painted up but I didn't do the bit of silver on the front fenders yet and didn't touch the tail lights, however I did deepen the red on him, metallized the purple a bit, painted the rims yellow and painted a clear red over some of the purple towards the back so that it fades from purple to maroon (I believe that's how it is on the show) and I blacked out the windshield and side windows. I'll likely do the same with the rear windshield (which Hasbro has painted in purple) but I haven't gotten to it just yet.

I painted his bot mode head a bit, but didn't take pictures of it yet as most of my work is focused on the car mode. All I had to take pics with was my cell phone so the pics aren't too great.

It already looks so much better lol keep it up