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by **jezones** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:38 am

I wanted to do a repaint of Starscream but i did not want to do what everyone else had done. just another gray repaint. so i started doing a little research about past seekers. At first i thought about doing Skywarp but i hope hasbro will take care of that for us. Then i stumbled upon a picture of e-hobby's g1 Sunstorm. That was it, nobody has done that one. At first i thought the orange would look real bad but now after the fact i think it really looks good. I hope ya'll like it.

best regards
Mark

this is without the arms and legs, i wanted a clean shot

hope ya'll enjoyed the pics.[/img][/img]

by **skyline** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:11 am

great work bro! 2 Thumbs up to you!

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:18 am

My favorite part is the head. Looks sinister.

by **jezones** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:08 am

yeah i was surprised when i put it back together how evil it looked.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:13 am

Looks good, but somehow I would like to see it in neon colors. :-?

by **Susinko** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:46 am

That was freakin' awesome! I love Sunstorm and have been talking abot repainting a Starscream into one. You did such a wonderful job.

by **Malicron** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:52 am

Looks good!
Keep up the good work.

by **skyblast** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:51 pm

WOW WOW WOW that looks really good. Well done!! I hope Hasbro sees this.

by **Tom_Servo** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:26 pm

He looks really nice! I like the Sunstorm look, but I don't know anything about the character. I never followed the mainstream DW/IDW books. (WAR WITHIN was more my taste.) Could someone enlighten me?

by **jezones** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:32 pm

thanks for the wow wow wow, the more i look at it the more i want to do another one, now if i could just get another starscream cheap, i only paid about 11 bucks for this one. and as far as the sunstorm story this is were i learned about him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstorm_(Transformers)

News Credits: 2 · by **Justicity** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:38 pm

I really like it, think it's amazing, especially the head. Inspired.
However I think it's a little too orange, maybe if you toned it with some yellow to make it a little less all-one-colour.
Just an idea, it looks great as it is, just maybe a future touch up idea.
Great work.

by **jezones** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:44 pm

i was using the g1 sunstorm as a model nothing but orange and white. i dry brushed white on the chest opening but the pictures really dont show it. I actually like the tail fins. they are g1 accurate unlike the hasbro repaints that just kept the colors. I tried to make it as close as i could. i have decepticon symbols on order from reprolabels that will be going on once the come in.

News Credits: 1 · by **Sherade** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:51 pm

You really managed to pull it off great. Nice work, nice creative flare you got.
Clean paint, pics, everything.
Awesome man, keep it up in the future.

News Credits: 2 · by **Justicity** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:23 pm

jezones wrote:i was using the g1 sunstorm as a model nothing but orange and white. i dry brushed white on the chest opening but the pictures really dont show it. I actually like the tail fins. they are g1 accurate unlike the hasbro repaints that just kept the colors. I tried to make it as close as i could. i have decepticon symbols on order from reprolabels that will be going on once the come in.

Ah, G1 accuracy! I didn't realize you were going for that. Sorry. Going from G1 colours it looks perfect. ^^
I thought you were just doing Sunstorm in movie style.

News Credits: 1 · by **Venomous Prime** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:34 pm

That's freaking sweet!

I love Sunstorm :grin:

by **BLACKOUT2007** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:31 pm

Thats nice. Hand painted? But IMHO I'd run a black was over it to bring out details.

My 2 cents.

News Credits: 1 · by **Wheeljack-S70** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:55 pm

BLACKOUT2007 wrote:Thats nice. Hand painted? But IMHO I'd run a black was over it to bring out details.

My 2 cents.

huh, I would have to agree with that.

regardless, you did a great job on this. I'm still not sold on this mold. but the sunstorm paint job works quite will with it.
nice!

by **jezones** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:17 pm

i thought about doing a wash but i really want to keep him looking kinda stock so he matches the others. i might add a little bare metel to him like thundercracker but not to much.

by **jezones** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:19 pm

oh yeah and everything as hand painted except the vert tail fins and the stripes

by **Iron Prime** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:42 pm

That's awesome! But, to be honest, something about the head bugs me.... I just can't but my finger on it.

If Hasbro doesn't give us SW now you pretty much have to do one to finish off the "set"!

by **Deceptiwho?** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:54 pm

Well worth the look!

by **jezones** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:03 pm

thanks now i guess im going looking for a star scream to turn into Skywarp

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:07 pm

Dude, you're my freaking hero.

by **Kanyon** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:03 pm

jezones wrote:thanks now i guess im going looking for a star scream to turn into Skywarp

Look for him? Target has buttloads of G1 deco SS on the shelves, no need to look =P

I may pick up 2 to turn into Thundercracker and Skywarp myself. I try to avoid copying someone elses work so I wont touch Sunstorm and honor him as your work and idea.