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So, lots of doubles in the third assortment, so I decided to strip the paint from them and try other stuff. An "easy" (yeah, wasn't actually) mod is to have them join the Electrum forces, since the third assortment had Optimus and Soundwave in gold. My first try used gold paint on Prowl and a...

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I considered doing more, like using clear green Tamiya paint to make the green bits look more transparent, but decided to stop where I did. ---Dave

Mainly just added the dropped glow colors back, added a few more glow bits, and some minor details. Decided that extending the fender stripe to the back was too much hassle, and my Minerva Shelley custom demonstrated the problems with painting the tail lights. ---Dave

The Freedom Dragon is a thing that exists, and can be purchased from Safari Ltd. But it's got a pretty boring paint scheme, so I got one and...improved?...it. ---Dave

I found a spare G2 Megatron at Ross the other day, and decided it needed to be painted to be closer to the comics colors (with some interpretation on my part). ---Dave

While reviewing the toy I realized it looked a lot like a B.A.T. Trooper, so a day of dyeing and some painting later, my spare (I ordered one on Pulse before finding it in-store) became Cobra's latest asset: ---Dave

GE Megatron's mace has two big problems. One, the paint stops halfway down each flange, which is weird. Two, the peg and socket for connecting the two pieces make it deliberately incompatible with the forearm-swap line gimmick. So I fixed both issues and also replaced all the figure's purple...

The robot mode is not worth the effort, but I liked the sorta choro-Q vehicle mode she has going here, it just needed more paint. ---Dave

Inspired by the upcoming Frankentron, I dyed a spare Minerva black and reshaped the head to look more like her hairstyle. Then, masochistically, I decided that making the trim look like lace would be a cool idea. Blade and speech bubble based on Shelley's appearances in the long-running...

TemTem went on deep sale for a few days last month, so I grabbed it. It's basically "Pokemon as an MMO," with just enough differences to avoid getting sued into the ground. I've really just gotten past the first Dojo (Gym) and unlocked the ability to travel on water, and it looks like a lot of...

I replaced the purple (other than the Decepticon symbol) on GE Barricade with purple-to-blue color shift paint, added it to more places, and used neon purple on the wheels. I also cut a groove on the arm gun so it could be held by the opened forearm. ---Dave

I painted the molded (and potentially lightpiped) eyes and touched up the rest of the face on #99 Battletrap. Now he's Tsundere. ---Dave

From Matt Ignash's design, which was presumably downloaded by someone at a local maker space. Printed in opaque white, then painted over in chrome marker and Tamiya clear blue. ---Dave

Yeah, the hole in the back of Spike's head was a significant flaw in the toy, and the lack of eyes was just CREEPY. So I fixed one of mine (I ordered a couple to spread out the shipping cost). Comparison to the one I didn't mod: ---Dave

I commissioned Trent Troop (Prize Inside on Shapeways) to make some peg-based Fire Blasts, since a lot of more recent toys have 3mm sockets in the gun barrels instead of 3mm studs. (I was mostly motivated by Metroplex, but now he's on my Titan Shelf and a bit hard to get down for pics.) ---Dave

After reviewing Legacy Minerva, I decided to dig out my late 90s Minerva custom and see if it had survived decades in storage. Amazingly it did, although I didn't want to push things so I didn't try transforming it. Here's some pictures, compared to Legacy. (I was going for screen accuracy...

Okay, clearly this is going to be a Thing for me. (Could a mod please splice the other threads into this one?) Leader of Alpha Team, Master Sergeant Steadfast is a cyborg and a chef. So in addition to repainting the figure, I built him a tray of cookies. Comparison shots: Some WIP bits...

I used a $3 app called NightCap and a cheap Bell & Howell telescope attachment, plus steady(ish) hands and a lot of deleted bad pics. The telescope: ---Dave

Slight physical modding (made her face more angular, bent her hair back a bit), otherwise just paint and noticing molded details that were concealed by the factory paint job. ---Dave