The Energon Pub

Posted: **Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:58 pm**

Here are some pics of my movie Megatron repaint. I hope you enjoy.

Stage 1: I seperated a few of the main parts for easier painting. A few dabs of Silly Putty were placed in the gaps and holes to protect the light and sound features while painting. Once the main painting was complete, the Silly Putty is easily removed (This is a great method for painting realistic camo on military models). I used a dark gray Krylon spray primer for the first coat. Once this coat dried, I sprayed the pieces with matte varnish

Stage 2: I then painted the seperate pieces using Krylon silver spray paint. Once this coat dried, I sprayed it with matte varnish and reassembled the figure.

Stage 3: Basically, this is the finished figure. I used several ink washes to add depth and age to the look. I then painted the gold and copper details as well as some silver drybrushing to clean up the ink washes. Sealed again with matte varnish.

And here are a few close-up shots. I hope you can see some of the detail work a bit better. I actually painted parts in the eye silver to better reflect Megatron's movie look. Of course, the light piping and electronics all still work.

Thank you for taking a look. Feel free to share any thoughts you might have. I value your input. Take care!

EDIT:
This figure is now available on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=016&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=260137626387&rd=1&rd=1

Posted: **Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:42 pm**

Oooooooo, that is beautiful! Awesome job!

Posted: **Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:44 pm**

Dragonslayer wrote:Oooooooo, that is beautiful! Awesome job!

Thanks! Most kind.

Posted: **Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:52 pm**

Nice job! GOt any pics of the alt mode?

Posted: **Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:13 pm**

Drillmaster wrote:Nice job! GOt any pics of the alt mode?

Not yet. I will.

Posted: **Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:27 am**

Truly how the figure should have looked in the first place, I love it, and if I had the skill and tools to do that, it might almost make the figure worth getting.

Posted: **Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:30 am**

Awesome job

Posted: **Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:42 am**

WOW, now I know that he's worth a buy!
Does the paint chip of?
And if not, which brand did you use?
Man that just improves him. Just the head, hów about using diferent paint tones on his face, that may improve his look.
Ore is it just the pixs that let his face seem a bit dull put up against the paint on the body?
Keeop it going :grin:

Posted: **Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:29 am**

man that is some awesome work. if only hasbro did that.. -sigh-

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:12 am**

Bounder wrote:Awesome job

Thanks a lot!

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:12 am**

Kickass job man!

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:09 am**

You managed to make a bad figure look great!
Kudos.
1)did you visualize this right away when you saw this figure?
2)what exactly is an ink wash and where might I find a good tutorial on how to do it?
3)do you have any idea how to remove newer model heads, like on the classics figures? They are kinda bolted in.
I ask because I want to put classics megatron's (the green tank) head onto cybertron unicron's body (the deluxe one), making classics war within megatron, and combine the remaining body with cybertron skywarp and make classics blitzwing (I know it can work)

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:01 pm**

Very nice.

If i wasnt so afraid of taking him apart (all those moving parts) i would do something similar.

And kudos for not doing the typical G1 fan thing and re-painting him like G1 Megs.

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:16 pm**

timshinn73 wrote:
Bounder wrote:Awesome job

Thanks a lot!

You're more then welcome timshinn73

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:21 pm**

Cool. My Megatron Repaint recieved a DeviantART Daily Deviation.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/58432967/

Posted: **Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:02 pm**

You deserved it dude, its great.

Posted: **Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:03 pm**

Droopz wrote:You deserved it dude, its great.

Thanks.

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:05 am**

dude, that's your best one yet..
all should be this way..
your paint job makes the figure, it's worthless without it.

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:38 pm**

Awesome work as always!

:grin:

It kind of makes him look like a Spawn character now.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:11 pm**

Predaprince wrote:Awesome work as always!

It kind of makes him look like a Spawn character now.

Thanks!

It would be nice if Hasbro did some Spawn quality paint jobs on at least special limited figures.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:34 pm**

This just goes to show that the movie figures would all look so much better if they were painted the way they actually look in the movie, Hasbro's paint jobs have managed to hide most of the detail.

Posted: **Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:25 am**

What can i say? 'Sweet' ! :grin:

Posted: **Wed Jul 04, 2007 6:49 pm**

Can you show altmode pics?? By the way axcelent job i wish it actually loked like that. How much do i have to pay you to get my own lol :grin:

Posted: **Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:14 pm**

Would you ever consider selling that (or copies) on eBay?

That's too good.

Posted: **Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:30 am**

any chance you could put up so alt mode pics?

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