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Classics/Arms Micron Sights, or "an Intro to painting Tranformers"

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Classics/Arms Micron Sights, or "an Intro to painting Tranformers"

Postby Flashwave » Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:49 am

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
I really wish I wasn't as apethetic as I am about some things. Long before TFSS2.0 showed us Stylor, Frenzy, and Catgut, I decided I wanted to find Arms Micron Gra to become the crab guy Razor-Sharp who came with Banzaitron. Why, I dunno, I wasn't around for the Actionmasters, I thought he'd go good with the Botcon Banzaitron (Crab+boat=awesome?)

However, as you may have noticed from the topic title, that's not who this is about. Sights was the next idea. Ad after getting Jackpot, and deciding I'm never gonna find a Gra on Ebay for a good price, well...

Quick Reminder, Sights was the targetmaster brd who came with Jackpot. Basically, he was the Gamb;er's teller and spy. He looked like this:

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And this is what I got on Ebay, meet Arms Micron I dunno his name. Image For 10 shipped with the wrong cllor crystal, and assembled. I really didn't care about the Crystal. And I;m kinda glad he was assembled, but giggest kicker for me was that he had his decals already. I had to paint over some. If I hafd the choice of unapplied for similar price I'd have gone that route,because What's his beak is the wrong color for Sights, but to try to liquid mask the wing stripes and his camera lens wasn't worth it for me. More on that Later.

First step was minor diassambly. I popped his wings, tail, head and legs off and wrapped the outer half of his wings in masking tape to protect the blue (and the silver stickers)

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Then I set aside the head, and feet pieces. The rest of him went into a paint booth, with some blac paint.

My other hobby is model railroading, so I;m somewhat familiar with the basics of painting plastic. However...
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My experience with a spraygun or airbrush is that I end up wearing the paint, not the model, so I buy my airbrushes in a can. Since Sights is black, this isn't such a g deal. You professionals out there though may be suffering from a heart attack at the sight of a rattlecan over the smoothness of an airbrush or that's how Model Train communities are, but this is me having fun, and that's the most important part. So, without further ado...

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Blaster mode

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As a sword

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Were I to do it again, I think I'd like a better, lighter blue, but that was the compromise I made with myself. And as a figure, he's a fun accesory to an aready cool club toy. Animated asthetic or not, Jackpot's fun an posible. I really like these Arms Microns, and in the Targetmaster capacity they really do a nice job. And, Sights was a fun way to kill two hours. Those of you perusing this section thinking you want to try but are apprehensive, grab yourselfa minicon, or a legends figure like this, Draw and Quarter it, and throw some paint around. Pulling the masking tape is like Christmas, you'll just never know how good the paint looks until its done. Its easy, nightime after-work-before bed-sleep-while-the-paint-is-drying check-it-in-the-morning stuff, and if it makes you happy, then try the bigger figs, the customizations.

Coincidentally, if anyone would like to part with their arms micron Gra...
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