Minor/Repaint: Combiner Wars Air Raid

Discussion in 'Radicons Customs' started by Zigholtul, Dec 19, 2015.

  1. Zigholtul

    Zigholtul I am the Waffle Maker

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    Testors Model Master Paints Used:
    - Black Gloss Acrylic
    - Flat Dark Ghost Gray
    - Gold Metallic Acrylic
    - Gray (mix of black gloss and white gloss)
    - Green Gloss Acrylic
    - Metallic Copper (mix of orange gloss, gold metallic and silver metallic)
    - Orange Gloss Acrylic
    - Red Gloss Acrylic
    - Silver Metallic Acrylic
    - Sky Blue (mix of 3/4 white gloss and a tiny amount of blue gloss)

    Markers Used:
    - Sharpie Pen

    You might be wondering to yourself why I waited so long to finish up with the rest of the Aerialbots and the answer is simple. Its because I've been slaving away at this damn novel for over 8 months and I'm only now just trying to finish up with the remaining portions of the third chapter, seeing how I thought it would be a good idea to include a heart warming musical piece, sung by someone whose trying to make up to the main protagonist after she tried to stab him earlier due to questionable and somewhat racially insensitive comments. You could say that he was in the wrong, especially given how he came from an era where xenophobia was at an all time high. But of course this is going to be one of those fantasy stories where all the main characters have their own personal issues that they'll have to learn to overcome, many of which are relevant even to this very day.

    But that's something we can save for another time and place. So instead lets focus on the real elephant in the room and that's doing what I did for Fireflight and Skydive by going even further with the paint detail. I especially had to repaint the entire chest area yet again due to Hasbro repeating the Age of Extinction mantra of giving figures paint jobs that scratch very easily. I don't know what possessed me to add in those green touches but if anything it kinda reminds me of an old school Super Sentai mech, though that could just be me thinking that. I admit I probably could have done better with the gun, but honestly it's rather lackluster in comparison to some of the cooler weapons the other Combiner Wars figures received.

    Vehicle Mode:
    [​IMG]Transformers Combiner Wars Air Raid 01 by zigholtul88, on Flickr
    [​IMG]Transformers Combiner Wars Air Raid 02 by zigholtul88, on Flickr

    Robot Mode:
    [​IMG]Transformers Combiner Wars Air Raid 03 by zigholtul88, on Flickr
    [​IMG]Transformers Combiner Wars Air Raid 04 by zigholtul88, on Flickr
    [​IMG]Transformers Combiner Wars Air Raid 05 by zigholtul88, on Flickr
    [​IMG]Transformers Combiner Wars Air Raid 06 by zigholtul88, on Flickr
     

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  2. Tin rocket

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    Ooooh! A novelist and a customizer! Love the range of multi-talented people on this board! Nice work on this one!
     
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    Alpha Matrix "King of Combiners!"

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