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Here's my (crapy) paint work:

Sorry bout the quality.

I have to say, the original head horns look awesome in black and gold. The only bad thing is that the horns are made of this stupid bendy rubbery material and the paint doesn't quite dry or spread as well as it does on plastic.

I think I'll strip the paint and ask my friend to cast it in black resin and paint that.

Dead Metal wrote:I have to say, the original head horns look awesome in black and gold. The only bad thing is that the horns are made of this stupid bendy rubbery material and the paint doesn't quite dry or spread as well as it does on plastic.

I think I'll strip the paint and ask my friend to cast it in black resin and paint that.

Hey, that ain't bad. I've been thinking about trying to find a gold sharpie felt. Maybe that would work better?

Before I just stuck the G1 head on it I had made a antennae piece that replaced that crest. I unscrewed the head, pulled out the soft plastic piece and cut off the side fins, and attached the more G1 side spokes to it and reassembled the head. The antennae/spokes were made from just a styrene rod sticking out of a styrene tube and it would look like guns on the "Silverbolt" jet mode. I only scrapped it because the paint just didn't work! The gold didn't look right, the yellow didn't look right, nothing! So I just plopped a G1 KO helmet on the smaller head and called it a day.

Mkall wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:I have to say, the original head horns look awesome in black and gold. The only bad thing is that the horns are made of this stupid bendy rubbery material and the paint doesn't quite dry or spread as well as it does on plastic.

I think I'll strip the paint and ask my friend to cast it in black resin and paint that.

Hey, that ain't bad. I've been thinking about trying to find a gold sharpie felt. Maybe that would work better?

Before you do that, try finding a friend who paints miniatures and ask if they have any P3 Paints by Privateer Press. It's a liquid pigment acrylic. Provides excellent coverage.

I'd suggest going and buying it, but not sure if you want to buy a $3 paint bottle for a single project.

I am aware this is an older thread but it's mine. I also have a reason. I'm looking at buying this. http://www.shapeways.com/model/157589/s ... ler-2.html Yes finally. I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers on what material to buy it in. I have no paint skills but I can easily do a couple spray applications if needed. I really would like to keep the detail as best as possible without doing a bunch of prep work. So, pointers?

WSF is what you need. If you want to pay for more, then get FUD.

daimchoc wrote:WSF is what you need. If you want to pay for more, then get FUD.

Fudd?
I thought that got banned after all those hillbillies went blind.

Flux Convoy wrote:I am aware this is an older thread but it's mine. I also have a reason. I'm looking at buying this. http://www.shapeways.com/model/157589/s ... ler-2.html Yes finally. I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers on what material to buy it in. I have no paint skills but I can easily do a couple spray applications if needed. I really would like to keep the detail as best as possible without doing a bunch of prep work. So, pointers?

I had bought the #4 version for my superion: http://www.shapeways.com/model/168506/s ... ler-4.html

I would recommend getting the white strong and flexible polished, as the white almost matches Silverbolt's colourscheme already, I didn't even bother to paint mine and you can't even notice it.

craggy wrote:

daimchoc wrote:WSF is what you need. If you want to pay for more, then get FUD.

Fudd?
I thought that got banned after all those hillbillies went blind.

No, They got shot by Elmer...

Those chest pieces look sweet. Im starting to have problems with the energon connectors on the shoulders. They just dont grab very well anymore...