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It's just hard to imagine a stickers set and some simple touch ups can make Prime Smokescreen look almost totally different.

Really nice work. Smokescreen gets some justice after all.

That's absolutely beautiful.

Honestly, nowadays you need to be a bit of a modeler in order to have a decent TF on your shelf, what with all the detailing left unpainted by Hasbro.

Even TT doesn't paint everything.

Anyways, great job. Those touchups really bring the figure to life!

BTW, that pose in the last pic is awesome!

PrymeStriker wrote:Really nice work. Smokescreen gets some justice after all.

Thanks.

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:That's absolutely beautiful.

Honestly, nowadays you need to be a bit of a modeler in order to have a decent TF on your shelf, what with all the detailing left unpainted by Hasbro.

Even TT doesn't paint everything.

Anyways, great job. Those touchups really bring the figure to life!

BTW, that pose in the last pic is awesome!

Thanks. Yes, it's really sad. The modern toys has so much more details molded on comparing to older toys but has much less paint applied on comparing to the older.

paul053 wrote:Thanks. Yes, it's really sad. The modern toys has so much more details molded on comparing to older toys but has much less paint applied on comparing to the older.

Yeah, what's worse is that some toys even have wrongly colored plastic on certain parts of them, such as those red parts on ROTF leader class OP's feet, and DOTM deluxe Bee's all-yellow lower legs. Probably part of the molding process where they had to fit a certain find space for a certain part in a mold.

It's a good thing I've always liked building model kits even as a kid.

Nice work. Smoke looks great!

That looks great. I rarely do complete paint jobs on figures as I usually prefer touch-ups and reprolabel stickers. With the figures having less paint details I get to have fun detailing them so I don't complain too much since I have fun. You really made Smokescreen come alive.