I painted up three Transformers as small stocking stuffer Christmas presents for my in-laws, yes I know Christmas was over a month ago, but I've been busy and lazy, not a great combination.
For my father-in-law I decided to paint up Predator
Falcon in is his favourite Rugby League team the West Tigers livery, Orange and Black.
For my Brother-in-law, I painted up G1
Dragstrip in an Irish colour scheme, as he loves anything and everything Irish.
And finally the mother-in-law got a junker Predator
Skydive, who was missing it's rear wing stabilisers. No real theme behind this figure, other than she likes blue:
All figures were taken completely apart and spray painted, various hobby brand sprays were used, can't even remember the names now. All silver highlights painted by hand with Games Workshop Mithril Silver (possibly my favourite GW colour).
Dragstrip and Skydive were rather rush jobs, done over a period of 2 nights after work, with Dragstrip in particular suffering from tired painting hands, his face in particular was done sloppily as I was too tired and lazy to dirty a finer brush to paint the eyes. Dragstrip and Skydive also suffered from a number of spray errors where I didnt mask off areas properly, or in one case plain forgot.
In contrast, Falcon, being crafted over a weekend barely suffered a setback or error.
All three figures went down a treat, and have held up well, in the past month. The Tiger repaint in particular has gotten a workout, and thanks mostly to their simple transformations I have not had paint rub/scraping off issues either.
Need to track down more junker Predators and Turbomasters, they are make fantastic figures to repaint for beginners and unco's like myself!
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