Customs: Thing you wish you had known before starting to do customs.

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  1. Autobot78

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    whats wrong with ptitvite's tutorial? just kidding thanks
     
  2. Anti-Venom

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    Nah I try not to read the labels. Its more fun this way :thumbs2: 

    Lol :wink: 
     
  3. prime13

    prime13 UCHUU KITAAAA

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    sure, that's what someone said before he got in an arm wrestle with a tractor and lost.
    you have to be careful around moving equipment, and especially chemicals. we dn't want to lose anyone.
     
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    Yea but it will only damage my Surrogate.......
     
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    Play at your own risk then . . . .
     
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    anovasinn THE PAINTS MUST FLOW!!!

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    hope this does not sound ideological but there is nothing i wish i had known before starting out. progressing over time has kept me interested. As far as a mistake i wish i had not made that would be melting animated soundwave twice by trying to dye it black
     
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    I think that's a pretty good answer, honestly :thumb 
     
  8. JakmanFirby

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    ya ha!
     
  9. deaculpa

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    oh man, i could write a book.
    I wish i had:
    a) bought a dremel (not a freaking tiny saw) as well as dremel drill bits ahead of time.
    b) read all of the "how-to threads"
    c) known about apoxie sculpt right off the bat
    d) known to use screws and drill bits intead of glue
    e) known that i should have saved all those tiny screws from other toys because theyre impossible to find in a store.
    f) that social crime radio is the best thing to listen to while kitbashing.
    Social Crime Radio
    g) known that a gestault is not the figure to start your kitbashing with.
     
  10. QmTablit

    QmTablit BotBot in the what, I said BotBot in the what

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    LOL I started bashing BECAUSE I wanted my own Devastator.

    Anyway, here's my list.

    #1. Quentin (err... me), you don't work very fast.
    #2. You tend not to touch on projects for weeks at a time.
    #3. You need to buy a lot more paints. Or save up for an airbrush set.
    #4. You're broke. Buying bots and parts is going to take a while. Then refer back to #'s 1 and 2.
    #5. You're overthinking things. That is going to take WAY too much work to pull off.
    #6. Currently, you have about 20 or so bots in the works. # of finished bots: Zero.

    Okay, maybe this was a little bit of a kick in the pants to myself. But it certainly helps. Anyway, I'll be posting something up elsewhere in Discussion (have to find the thread) which'll be helping me a lot with getting work done on these suckers.
     
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    Kusanagi, one thing I'd suggest to you is take on a very small project, and just finish it as quickly as you can. Right now, I've got a TON of wip projects (more than I've ever had), and the small victories are SO much more appreciated than I previously would celebrate them. I am still pretty thrilled to have my Ricochet with Nightstick finished, to the point that I can't take him off of my computer desk in front of me to put him on the shelf. :) 
     
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    I wish I'd known about plastic weld, not just before I began customising, but before I broke my fist transformer as a kid.

    The damn stuff will but back together GPS victims stronger than ever. It saved my Kill Bison.
     
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    I thought I'd bump this thread and see if some of you had some new responses that aren't present here already. Feel free to post your insight, as I think this is a good thread to resource in the tutorials section :) 
     
  14. Treadshot A1

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    I forget if i'd already said these, but a few new things would be that:
    • Never enter a contest as your first heavy mod. You're bound to screw it up. (right after the photo shoot, my scourge snapped in half. Yay...)
    • Don't scratchbuild anything. Get it 3d printed. :D 
    • Study for exams first, then kitbash.
    • Never ever cut without thinking first.
    Um, yeah.
     
  15. Shadowbreaker

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    Um.... Yeah.

    1. Customizing skills.
    2. How to paint PROPERLY.
    3. A general idea of what I was actually doing.

    I'm working my painting skills, so that's getting better.

    Oh ya, If you look in the Tutorials section,..... LISTEN to what's in there.... Yeah...
     
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    Never ever drink and bash
     
  17. CZ Hazard

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    I wish I had never tried to use tweezers to hold small parts when spraying, the amount of pinging parts landing in dirt which then won't clean up was frustrating, much better to lay them out and come back to them when dry, flip and repeat as necessary. Obvious maybe, but took me three customs to finally ditch the tweezers.

    I wish I hadn't started with Classics Sideswipe, he is such an easy mold to dis-assemble and spray he probably lulled me into a false sense of security. When I moved onto Classics Mirage and Prowl I was like "what the hell are these metal pins?"
     
  18. CZ Hazard

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    For all my moaning though, I only started doing customs with my g/f about 7 months ago, and we currently have 9 done, 6 WIPs, 3 nearly finished and 2 commissions!!! This has been an awesome way for me to enjoy the hobby in a creative way.
     
  19. closetrat

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    The biggest thing I should have considered was my lack of patience.

    I also need to learn to be more like Johnny Eckhardt.

    - I've dismantled Jazz's left arm on a spare fig & haven't finished re-designing the xformation; I've got deluxe Ratchet in a pile of pieces while I try to work out his new leg xformation & I never did finish re-designing Voyager OPs re-shelled front-end to include his arms & true front windshield...
     
  20. Superquad7

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    I just wanted to give you guys a head's up that I'll most likely be resourcing this one early next week. Thanks for all of your responses so far :)