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by **Sonray** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:52 pm

I loved my voyager Ratchet toy but after seeing how awesome he looked with some paint apps i had to have a go at it myself.

What do you think?

EDIT:

This guy is now up on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0157008290

by **Sonray** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:52 pm

Yo?? What no one likes it or something? Come on i worked hard on this! :sad:

by **Malicron** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:37 pm

I liked it

by **Sparky** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:10 pm

Neat-o. Good job. Wish I had a Ratchet to play around with..

I'm going to take a stab and say that ...I have no clue what yuor nextone is gonna be. If I had to guess.....um..the Alternator Dodge Ram Prime??

by **Sonray** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:07 pm

Sparky wrote:Neat-o. Good job. Wish I had a Ratchet to play around with..

I'm going to take a stab and say that ...I have no clue what yuor nextone is gonna be. If I had to guess.....um..the Alternator Dodge Ram Prime??

hehe, nupe. The dodge ram already came in red, my project has already been repainted.

News Credits: 4 · by **Briggs** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:58 pm

Nicely done. I can't wait to touch my ratchet up.

And I KNOW WHO UR RED PICK UP IS YOU CANT FOOL ME MISTER.

"I'm just saying, it's an option."

by **Damienl** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:13 pm

It looks nice! The arm and leg metallic colours really add a lot!
I wanted to work on Ratchet after seeing Jin's too, but I looked at it and thought "Boy thats a biiiiig figure for me to mess up" haha
Good job.

News Credits: 5 · by **decepticonjon** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:05 am

they both look great. sorry had other things to do on a friday night ;;)

but bb looks wonderful with his stickers

by **Tramp** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:43 am

Pretty good work there Sonray. Keep it up.

by **Sparky** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:21 am

Sonray wrote:
Sparky wrote:Neat-o. Good job. Wish I had a Ratchet to play around with..

I'm going to take a stab and say that ...I have no clue what yuor nextone is gonna be. If I had to guess.....um..the Alternator Dodge Ram Prime??

hehe, nupe. The dodge ram already came in red, my project has already been repainted.

Ah.....Gotcha...well, maybe next time I'll get it right. I wanna see the next one!!

by **MidnightR** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:26 am

Wow, I love that Bumblebee!

Any chance we can get a shot of him in alt mode?

by **Sonray** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:23 am

MidnightR wrote:Wow, I love that Bumblebee!

Any chance we can get a shot of him in alt mode?

He doesnt transform. It was my first kitbash and something went wrong so he doesnt fit together properly. I was disappointed too and i want to do another one now i know what i am doing just so i can have a version that actually transforms but its a costly experiment. Finding a VW model kit for a start is a pain in the ass.

by **Sonray** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:49 am

Bump for Ebay self whorage

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:12 am

Nice, SonRay customs!

Hope you make a killing with it!

by **Sonray** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:24 pm

Dead Metal wrote:Nice, SonRay customs!
Hope you make a killing with it!

I hope so too. Someone else did and ive done just as good of a job, but im in england so the market may be different.

News Credits: 1 · by **Ash** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:32 pm

V.V. good , Too bad I cant Paint well :sad:

Thats just off the line...

;)^

by **Sonray** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:09 am

Ash wrote:V.V. good , Too bad I cant Paint well

Thats just off the line...

I wish people would like it enough to bid on it. Its just as good of not better than Jins yet his sold for 1500...i need the freaking money!

by **Tom_Servo** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:42 pm

Sonray wrote:Yo?? What no one likes it or something? Come on i worked hard on this!

You've got to start your auction low, so it looks like a deal. Then once the bidding gets going, it will shoot up. Check out the bidding histories of closed auctions. You'll see stuff that went for a couple hundred bucks that started off at one.

by **Sonray** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:27 am

Tom_Servo wrote:
Sonray wrote:Yo?? What no one likes it or something? Come on i worked hard on this!

You've got to start your auction low, so it looks like a deal. Then once the bidding gets going, it will shoot up. Check out the bidding histories of closed auctions. You'll see stuff that went for a couple hundred bucks that started off at one.

Yeah but i dont want to let it go for less than 40, and knowing my luck if i start it off at a lower price it wont sell for what i want.

by **Tom_Servo** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:45 pm

That's why you set a reserve. I'm not actually sure how to do it, but it's how you protect yourself.

by **Sonray** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:01 pm

Tom_Servo wrote:That's why you set a reserve. I'm not actually sure how to do it, but it's how you protect yourself.

Yes i know about the reserve thing, but i dont think you can do it with items under £100....i'll look out for it next time, i'll list it with ym custom movie ironhide as well that way things should look more appealing to people to see two items.

by **Kyle Robinson** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:39 am

hmmm, better huh?... :grin:

seriously though, good job. If you have photoshop a quick auto color click will ditch that orange tint your pics have... and jeeze, I forgot how ugly those shoulder screws are.

by **Sonray** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:53 am

Kyle Robinson wrote:hmmm, better huh?... seriously though, good job. If you have photoshop a quick auto color click will ditch that orange tint your pics have... and jeeze, I forgot how ugly those shoulder screws are.

Oh the orange tint, yeah thats from the crappy lighting, these are old pics and out of date as i re-did some of the bits on his legs that chipped off and re-took the pics with a black background and no orange tint. It looks alot better now....well it did i sold it on ebay.

Heres what he looked like with the better lighting and fixed leg paint: (ok its still a bit orange

I'll use this auto color thing next time if i can figure out how)

(and yes the screws are ugly but i didnt bother filling them in as i dont see them as that big of a problem really, not worth the extra hassle.)

by **Kyle Robinson** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:56 am

nicer... I dig the red detail you did.

by **Sonray** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:59 am

Kyle Robinson wrote:nicer... I dig the red detail you did.

Copied that straight from the pics of the actual movie ratchet, movie accuracy is your friend!

I added silver look H2 badges to his alt mode too, and black Trim along the bottom of the alt mode, and those black squares on his hood.

Im surprised you big shot pro's missed all those details...

Just pulling ya leg