Walking into a random toystore I bumped into ROTF soundwave.
He is just a dream to repaint, I think he's one of the most detailed deluxe class transformers available. Too bad he isn't a voyager though. but now blackout has somebody tho stand next to
this is basically what he looks like out of the box:
the horror
I'm actually glad the designer chose to save money on the coloring of these toys instead of the look, transformation and shape. we are repainting them anyway!
as you can see he has a really cheap, grey looking color, some blue and silver and some gold. the only cool thing about him (I think) are the translucent blue things.
As he looked like a cheap plastic moron standing next to his G1 original. I decided to repaint him straight away.
I based the color pattern of the G1 soundwave: blue hands, blue shoulders, silver arms, silver on the inside of the leg, blue on the outside of the leg etc....
I used a metallic blue on him but added weathering because I wanted him to appear like he had been in some fights.
colors were also based on
my custom megatron, I used the same hammerfinish but combined with dark blue for soundwave instead of the brown finish used on megatron
Here are the results,
the cool thing about his transformation is that you can move everything around pretty good so you can make your own transformations.
I wanted the alt mode to look a bit like the spaceship mode of megatron, both being cybertronian aircrafts.
I am aware that he has a satellite mode as well but I didn't get pics of that. sorry!