So I just got into customizing transformers these past few weeks. Luckily as an artist and painter I had pretty much everything from an airbrush to enamels paints, that hardening clay stuff, dremel, solder, tools, I mean every paint, automotive metallic paints to model primer in a can. So now I got myself some styrene, an automatic pin poker, some practice transformers. I've taught myself how to solder LEDs, and balls to the wall I'm creating something! It's been fun learning how to make rust effects, paint toys, take em apart put em together all different. Get frustrated, doubt ridden the whole time while stuff is drying. Or forgetting what screw goes where, but I've almost gotten an OCD thing going while doing this and have been on top of every step. Just learning to solder on boards is an amazing skill I've picked up. I've never used the dremel so much! What have you learned along the way? I'm teaching myself molds right now. This has been really fun and I'm glad to have found this community!
Until hitting radicons I picked up most of my tips from model builders magazine. Picked up quite a bit from a now closed down site called transtopia/tfmaster a lot of us old timers were groomed there
Ya I've never done models or things like that. I'm a tattooer and painter, so this is all new and exciting for me!
Plenty of how to threads on here . The magazine helped me . Recalling switching out wheels on my armada bendy prime my first custom
before joining here, i was a lego fanatic since i was two. i once thought a broken piece was garbage,that changing a pieces color was blasphemous. but after the first bionicle series came to an end, i slowly drifted from it. looking for something new,my brother borrowed wfc the game. that was the beginning of my collection. after seeing dozens of customs on a daily basis i decided to try my hand painting an foc vortex.....did not end well......but after several attempts on discount bh legends predacons, bomber megs, and foc grimlock (in that order), i managed to do a decent paint job. getting more adventuress, i attempted to make a shapeways product at the library......still working on it..... it was only after painting tidal wave into broadside that i wanted to do a heavy custom, but that time didn't come until last week, where i finished a custom deluxe groove (minus head....sooon) where i cut, glued, and painted my way to being content. my next goal is a full scratch build figure, but its been one crazy ride of learning.
It is a crazy adventure! Full of doubt and tribulations! But worth the effort! I bought two cybertron startscreams, one with his wings and weapons(no crown) and one missing everything except a wing. I'm really using the one with missing parts as a project where I'm going to put circuit boards and stuff I stripped from a laptop and make him battle worn and have wires and stuff like that hanging out if his battle broken arms and stuff. I will be keeping the green and gold board look as a color scheme too. Again tho, all experimental. The other I want to use pearlescent and metallic paints and make a beautiful shiny big @$$ starscream!
