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News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:26 pm

Certainly a custom concept that has seen it's fair share of usage, but something I wanted to give my take on. With a BC '12 boxset really out of the question for me, I did want to have a representation of a modern Road Rage in my collection (and make you all look forward to your upcoming boxsets) .

With that, I entered my first foyer into using green stuff on my figures, giving Road Rage a facemask, rather than likely botching an attempt to put lipstick on that face.

Colorwise, I felt like giving her darker colors, contrasting to her upcoming BotCon figure (or atleast the mockup), but staying somewhat true to her G1 release. She features metallic paints and a somewhat failed attempt at adding gloss finish (first time for this too) on her. My painting wasn't exactly top notch in this case as I can see a few errors from the pictures, and I didn't exactly thin out my reds when I was applying them.

Paints, gloss and green stuff courtesy of Black Citadel/Games Workshop, and the lovely stickers are from Reprolabel's Track set. With her being shiny and all, I guess she'll be on my Henkei/United shelf. There's another hood sticker, so maybe a Cl/Uni/Gen RR will be in the works with some brighter colors.. Now back to touching up the figure's blemishes, thanks for looking!

News Credits: 10 · by **gavinfuzzy** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:08 am

Nice idea and choice of colours

Did you handbrush everything? I would recomend spray cans, they generally come out alot cleaner.

News Credits: 1 · by **SKYWARPED_128** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:11 am

gavinfuzzy wrote:Nice idea and choice of colours Did you handbrush everything? I would recomend spray cans, they generally come out alot cleaner.

IMHO, hand-brushing can give nice results, but the extra work might not be worth the effort.

Assuming you're using Tamiya acrylic paint, drastically thinning the paint [1:1 ratio], and painting it on the fig in 3 to 4 layers with around 48-72 hours drying time between coats will give some good results.

Thing is, why bother if it can be done with a rattle can? Unless, of course, you can't find the right color.