Customs Stepwise's paint and stickers projects

I dipped my toe into the Toyhax pool . . . and I bought a cheap airbrush off Amazon . . . and then I pretty much decided to forget the airbrush and go with spray paint.

First up - I posted these in the "post pics of your collection with the current theme" thread last spring, but here are the re-stickered Bee-Chain and Key-Jumper:





Beachcomber was a flea market find in high school, he has old tires from a spare Major Mo.



Swerve is part of why I started this whole thing - I tried peeling off the factory-applied sticker on his chest to take him apart to see if I could fix his leg. Turned out this release didn't have a screw there, so I just had to sorta push his leg into place.

Breaking this up into multiple posts . . .

Part of my G1 crew is disassembled at the moment - Rodimus, Optimus, Ultra Magnus, Topspin and Twin Twist are in bags and boxes waiting for me to figure out how to re-touch their chrome. I have most of their stickers already, but the chrome is slowing me down. (1st attempt w/ the airbrush was awful. and expensive.)

I do hope I can finish this project this weekend - I'm customizing a Devastation Sideswipe.

Pic from yesterday:

"Stepwise's" is correct usage. You only end in a bare apostrophe if the last letter is an s AND either the s is due to pluralization or you're writing for a newspaper (newspaper usage has some tweaks to save ink). So it should be Gauss's Law unless you're doing a newspaper article mentioning it. Stepwise ends in an e, so always use 's.

---Dave

Adjusted the thread title, ditched the built-in grammar question.

Real life is a pain in the . . . I had to start over on a part or two, then I ran out of paint and time to work on that Sideswipe project.

One thing I have noticed, though - it's really cool when the primer dries, especially on darker plastic. So many cool details show up.

No pins in place because I still have work to do, but this project is . . . yeah, I can't think of anything other than "coming together."

"Oh no! It's quickwood! Help!"

"Spareswipe".



"Sideswap."


No paint on these for now. No stickers either, but I'll Toyhax Sunstreaker up a bit, and I scuffed Sideswipe's windshield, so I need to buy a set to cover that up.