DaddyBot33 wrote:they both look awesome. I was thinking of making a sunstreaker myself. It will be my first repaint attempt. I had the same thinking to make swerve into a g1 color sideswipe after playing the rotf game. I was thinking that i could pop the head off of swerve and sideswipe, repaint the sideswipe head and put it on the swerve body. As far as the sunstreaker repaint, i've been browsing the posts to try to get an idea of what to get for paint and things like that. bear in mind that i've never done this before! the major question that i have is what is sealant and when do you use it? all i know is that you use after your done painting.
Basically I just try to remove as many of the parts that I'm going to paint as I can...I don't have an airbrush, so I have to use a rattle can, or hand paint everything. I get most of my paint supplies from my local hobby shop, or local hardware store. Get yourself some flat gray primer, and use a layer of that before you put your new color down. I try to make sure that I use several light coats of spray, and let the paint dry before the next coat. That way you will have a nice smooth finish. I let the painted parts dry overnight at a minimum, and then I spray them with a Krylon clear coat. The finish of the clearcoat (gloss or flat) depends on the figure. Once that clearcoat has had enough time to dry, then I carefully re-assemble the figure. I have a crap ton of acrylics in bottles that I use to add details and accents. In my Sunstreakers case, I used a spray for the areas around the chest/shoulders (the main parts of the car), and then I hand painted all of the yellow areas on his head, waste, and legs. The hardest part for me is making myself go slow...when I see a project starting to come together I have a tendancy to want to move faster, and that will lead to mistakes.
Before I ever started re-painting Transformers, I built alot of model airplanes. What I learned is that you want to try to prime and paint most of the pieces of the model before you glue it all together...a custom TF is no different, you're just kind of doing it all in reverse.
If you mess it all up, it's no big deal really...you're going to make mistakes, and that is the only way you can learn how to do it better next time. Do it enough, and soon you will find your own style of customization that you will be comfortable with. These forums are the best tool you have for learning new methods, so I encourage you to abuse the search button like it owes you money.
especially the Sunstreaker repaint.
