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Praxus Prime wrote:

Skyfire77 wrote:

Heckfire wrote:Y'know, it just occurred to me: if you put the Reprolabels Tracks stickers on ROTF Swerve, you'll basically be making it into Road Rage, since she's just a red Tracks, complete with all the same stickers.

The trick is actually finding Swerve. Time to go check Amazon...

There's a Wal-Mart right down the road from my house, and they have a TON of swerves. I've been thinking about repainting one, but I've never customized any transformers before. Any suggestions on what I need?

Check this out.

Skyfire77 wrote:

Praxus Prime wrote:

Skyfire77 wrote:

Heckfire wrote:Y'know, it just occurred to me: if you put the Reprolabels Tracks stickers on ROTF Swerve, you'll basically be making it into Road Rage, since she's just a red Tracks, complete with all the same stickers.

The trick is actually finding Swerve. Time to go check Amazon...

There's a Wal-Mart right down the road from my house, and they have a TON of swerves. I've been thinking about repainting one, but I've never customized any transformers before. Any suggestions on what I need?

Check this out.

Thanks for the tips man! Sounds like I have most of the stuff I need (somewhere in my closet...) to start except a figure.

Skyfire77 wrote:Yeah, I haven't seen Swerve or Sideswipe (or Longhaul, or Blazemaster, or Mixmaster, or...) here in PA yet.
You want Wave 3 Deluxes, Ironhide, or Prime? Local WalMart and Target have got loads of those.

You need Long haul and/or Mixmaster? I can't go anywhere here in Colorado Springs with out tripping over a bunch of either one or the other...

I don't think Hasbro will ever do a tracks.. so I might have to try it out. My one horror is the possibility of white paint screwing up like it always does..

Blurrz wrote:I don't think Hasbro will ever do a tracks.. so I might have to try it out. My one my horror is the possibility of white paint screwing up like it always does..

The trick: layering. My formula(with GW colors, but Tamiya and Vallejo have the same or similar color shades under different names, there's a chart somewhere): Astronomicon Grey base coat, thinned Space Wolves Grey, 2-3 layers thinned Space Wolves Grey with growing amounts of Skull White mixed in, final coat of slightly thinned Skull White.

Makes the white nice and clean without being too thick.

Sounds like a good idea.. thanks for the tip. Kudos for using Citadel Paints too..

After my illustrious career as a GW nerd, It's like I've mastered all of the names from their paint spectrum...

*mourns the discontinuation of Tentacle Pink*

Blurrz wrote:Sounds like a good idea.. thanks for the tip. Kudos for using Citadel Paints too..

After my illustrious career as a GW nerd, It's like I've mastered all of the names from their paint spectrum...

*mourns the discontinuation of Tentacle Pink*

Seconded on all accounts(especially T Pink, how am I supposed to paint Horrors now?!). Their Foundation and new washes lines are amazing, no matter what project you're working on.

Midnight_Fox wrote:

Skyfire77 wrote:Yeah, I haven't seen Swerve or Sideswipe (or Longhaul, or Blazemaster, or Mixmaster, or...) here in PA yet.
You want Wave 3 Deluxes, Ironhide, or Prime? Local WalMart and Target have got loads of those.

You need Long haul and/or Mixmaster? I can't go anywhere here in Colorado Springs with out tripping over a bunch of either one or the other...

Thanks, but I wound up ordering Long Haul off of Amazon, and I managed to find a Mixmaster at my local Wally.

It's an awsome custom. I thought ROTF Sideswipe as Tracks was an ideal choice, since both are corvette stingrays. I bought a swerve to check out and see what ideas I could come up with. I would like to be able to reverse the figure so that the top and windshield are the chest. Maybe the new Sideswipe revealed at toyfair will remedy this.

Great job on Tracks!