The Energon Pub

by **mampy** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:09 am

After a 3 month hiatus from customizing, I've busted out the brushes and paints once again.

Continuing my line of movie repaints, here is Ironhide!

Ironhide was first base-coated with flat black and gloss black automotive acrylic epoxy paint. Multiple layers of drybrushing were added using Tamiya Acrylic gunmetal, metallic grey, flat aluminum, and chrome silver. The gold/copper highlights were added by painting Gunze-Sangyo acrylic clear yellow and orange on top of silver.

I would also like to give credit to JinSaotome and Chih. I used their Ironhide repaints as reference material (as well as movie screen caps) for mine.

Alt mode pics:

Bot mode pics:

Here are some close-up shots of the head, arms, and legs. There is a lot of detail on this mold, and it looks all the more impressive when painted. This is my favorite tftm figure to date.

For the rest of the pictures, visit my flickr page at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22265209@N03/sets/72157604394749633/

Thanks for looking! I hope you like it!