The Energon Pub

Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:17 pm

Here's my first Classics seeker (I'm waiting to see what the Botcon set is before I do any "characters" first... Black Starscream. He's not soley based on the original. I looked at the RM one as well, and they're so different from each other I felt I could take some liberties of my own to spice him up just a bit. There's that, and the fact that GF Soundblaster looks so damned sexy that he influenced me as well! Its not perfection, but I am happy with it.

Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:17 pm

-Andy

Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:12 pm

Oooo, looks cool. The gold paint fits perfect with the black

Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:23 pm

wow.. guess nobody cares about starscream's alter-ego lol

News Credits: 4 · Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:37 pm

I like black starscream. Kinda looks like a cross between sunstorm and starscream. Black with gold chest. NICE!

Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:53 am

I really love how evenly you got the gold paint onto it. Did you spray it on, or is it brushwork? 'Cause if it's brushwork...holy HELL, man.

I would've gone with the reissue Black Starscream look because I'm a stickler for staying close to official color schemes, but yours looks just as good, if not better.

Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:25 am

thanks. its all done with a brush. 3 coats of really thin, light, long strokes.

Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:44 am

You got paint that smooth, with a brush? :shock:

I officially hate you. :evil:

Or maybe, I'm just jealous.

Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:21 am

if it makes you feel any better, these are the largest paint aps that I've done by brush and gotten to look so smooth. normally an area that big I'd mask off and spray. Superquad7 uses a brush for everything he does, even those alternators.. I hope to graduate to that someday.

Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:48 pm

I would have left the canopy orange, but other then that he's perfect, paint work is amazing, and the color choices work so well together. You gonna stick with Black Starscream as the name or make him a separate character?

Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:30 pm

Greyryder wrote:You got paint that smooth, with a brush?

I officially hate you.

Or maybe, I'm just jealous.

Getting a smooth paintlob using a brush isn't that hard. I hand paint all my work using a brush as well since I can't use my airbrush because of my Grandmother's emphasema. As long as you have the right brushes, and the right kind of paint, you shouldn't get streaks or visible brush strokes in the final piece. Most of your acrylic model paints are extremely fluid and thus don't leave brush storkes behind. And the proper brushes (I use red sable hair brushes) are soft, which alkso cuts down on any tell-tale brush strokes being left behind.

Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:46 pm

I do really like the work on this, even though I've never quite understood the fascination with things like variant paintjobs on characters. Unless they actually have some kind of backstory, that is. I'm particularly impressed with the gold. I can usually get smooth paintjobs with most colours with a brush, but gold always covers unevenly for some reason.

I'm surprised, though, that you stuck with the Skywarp markings in a different colour. Would it not have suited better to have emulated the Starscream markings in silver or gold?

Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:40 pm

it probably would have, and I did think about it... but I just really like this particular wing pattern *L* I dont' really like starscream's and how it makes his wings look almost solid red in robot mode. If I'd have gone a different route, I'd probably have gone more G1ish.

As for the canopy, I wasn't going to keep it orange, as neither iteration of the character had an orange canopy, both were black.