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RID 15 Tricerashot detailing

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RID 15 Tricerashot detailing

Postby Flashwave » Tue Oct 03, 2017 10:53 pm

Motto: "Our society's downfall will not be this war. The war IS our society. That which will get us will be the little things. Some humanoid race, some tossed cannon, the little things that no one looks out for. THAT is for what we must be vigilant."
Weapon: Twin Shoulder-Mounted Rocket Launchers
Greetings all!

I submit before you a short little custom; a night with some good TV, a paint brush, some Walmart Acrylics, and our patient, RID 15 Weaponizer Tricerashot.

Since before TFCC copied my idea for Arms Microns as Actionmaster partners, (I did Scalpel first!!) one of my unfulfilled goals was Tyrannitron. There just hasn't been a good dinosaur Minicon Weapon thing. Now that we have a good Generations Snarl coming out, I really wanted to do that, but without a good candidate, I had to go to the next best thing.

RID Tricerashot is Coincidentally, the same colors. Wrong Dino, but that's a compromise I can live with. Interestingly, and perhaps somewhat ironically, the Toy's reliance on a bigger gun barrel actually means he is less like the cartoon model, and more like the original Tyrannitron I wanted.

But if you have seen the Weaponizer figure for Tricerashot you know that the toy has almost 0 detail paint on it. Perhaps this is because of the snap on armor, but even the two black horns are only painted on one side. This simply was an ugly orange plastic figure. Something would have to be done.

I painted Tricerashot based on his Cartoon model, which is hard because many of the details are the wrong shape or not present. His rear legs are the most obvious, but the entire transformation sequence is a compromise in and of itself. His cheeks in the cartoon are small yellow ports. On the toy, they are actual vents.

The one thing on him that should be orange and isn't, is the tail handle. I didn't paint it, knowing that Tricerashot was going to be a used accessory I didn't want to paint something I knew would risk rubbing in Snarl's hand.

As I said before, he was painted using an assortment of Acrylic Paints from Walmart and a few different sized small brushes. is this an award winning paint job? Not exactly. I have a few places I would've liked to redo. And its missing.... something. Something that makes it more like the cartoon model. But to be honest, all that doesn't mean I'm not happy with it. I enjoyed the time spent detailing him, thinking about what needed to be what color. It was a few hours well spent. And really, that's what's most important. I can't wait for the day Snarl arrives and I can put the pair together.

Maybe this will inspire some folks to try it as well? Minicon aren't that expensive. Paints from Walmart are 47c. Adding Headlights, barreltips, can be a good way to sit back and de-stress, and make a figure yours without spending a lot of money. And if you do enjoy it, you can move on to the bigger stuff.

Enjoy! Positive feedback appreciated.

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Re: RID 15 Tricerashot detailing

Postby WreckerJack » Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:48 am

Motto: "The complain train is leaving the station."
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I think photobucket ate all your pics, but that is a really sweet custom! I decided to look up what Tricerashot looked like orignally and I must say that is a night and day difference in terms of color. Hasbro, take notes.
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Re: RID 15 Tricerashot detailing

Postby Flashwave » Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:09 pm

Motto: "Our society's downfall will not be this war. The war IS our society. That which will get us will be the little things. Some humanoid race, some tossed cannon, the little things that no one looks out for. THAT is for what we must be vigilant."
Weapon: Twin Shoulder-Mounted Rocket Launchers
WreckerJack wrote:I think photobucket ate all your pics, but that is a really sweet custom! I decided to look up what Tricerashot looked like orignally and I must say that is a night and day difference in terms of color. Hasbro, take notes.

Aww, they were working earlier. I wad using links from a Facebook album, I have given up on Photobucket and Flickr.

Thanks for the compliments though. I hsd fun painting him
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Re: RID 15 Tricerashot detailing

Postby WreckerJack » Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:08 pm

Motto: "The complain train is leaving the station."
Weapon: Arc-Welders
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