Since I’m unwilling to spend the money required to buy the lucky draw Optimus Primal’s, I’ve decided some time ago that I was going to paint them myself. (Still haven’t gotten around to it.) Of course, one of the releases is a chrome gold version and, as most of us know, chrome gold can be hard to create without actual chrome. So I tried a little experiment that I had heard others use.
I took a KO G1 Skydive and used clear paint over a cote of metallic silver and put a glossy cote on top. I’m not too dissatisfied with the result, although it might have been better had I used clear yellow instead of clear orange (but the lid really looked like chrome gold so I went with that
).
As I said, it’s an experiment so I didn’t spend too much time on it. Only airbrushed one layer of silver and also only one layer of clear orange and it clearly shows in uneven colors and the silver shining through the orange, and the original blue at places coming through the silver.
Ah well, too bad...it was and is after all just an experiment.
Nevertheless, I do feel the colors look nice.
The chrome silver parts (wings and nosecone) were already like that.
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