Minor/Repaint: Darubu? It's White Leo rockin'

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  1. nonmetal

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    Painted Daburu(ibid) to closely match White Leo from Headmasters. Pretty small to detail. I painted right onto the head and lower legs but pre primed the torso white with spray bomb. All enamel paint. Will take more pictures later after the paint cures and I build his iconic "white beamer" sword. Love that Hasbro incorporated this figure with Doublecross. Makes sense since the Monsterbots stayed on planet Beast and they got to know each other as well as observe the headmaster process.

    Be sure to check out Oniconvoy's post. Minor/Repaint: - Pirate Lion into Thundertron
    It was an inspiration and push I needed to do this paintjob. I may paint the abdomen white as well. On fence about it.

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    made a mini "white beamer" sword and painted torso sections white. I also did a variation on Tom_Servo's wrist mod on Doublecross. I was lucky to find a junker Doublecross to use the ports from a second head to attach to the wrists. The heads plug in and turn on a 5mm peg. As an added bonus lego flames are a perfect fit. See Tom_Servo mod here: Minor/Repaint: - Twinferno (Doublecross) Wrist Mod (another one)
    Doublecross has the Reprolabel set applied.

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  2. Tresob

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    That looks great! It makes me want to throw caution to the wind and try to paint up mine!
     
  3. POSSESSED_DIGIT

    POSSESSED_DIGIT WE ARE NUBBY THUMB!!

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    Nice work. Kudos on painting such tiny details.

    I tried to paint the eye patch on mine but the detail is really tiny and I couldn't "stay in the lines"...
     
  4. nonmetal

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    Battle Beast / Beastformer and anime character

    SWORD!!!!!

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  5. nonmetal

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    He is so tiny. A tricky paint job. I scraped a little paint back afterward with a hobby knife to sharpen the lines. I also dug out the jeweler glasses. One good trick was taking a photo with my phone and zooming in to see my mistakes/overpaint so I could go back and clean up.
     
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  6. shiftypenguin

    shiftypenguin Fancy-Pantsless Dancer

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    Nice paint work!
     
  7. Novaburnhilde

    Novaburnhilde born-again First Churcher

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    Excellent work. :thumb 
     
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    AWESOME! Especially how he is soooo small :) 
    Nicely done Mate :) 
     
  9. SHADDO

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    Been planning to do this with mine since Twinferno was announced and Daburu was revealed to be White Lion. Great job and really looks awesome!
     
  10. nonmetal

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    bump for White Lion updates :)  Will post some Doublecross pics later to show off wrists.
     
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