You're really excited about this gold-plating service. You mention it a lot. I think you owe it to yourself to get something golded out. Maybe Skids' gold tooth or something.
Well, read some of the tutorials and take it easy. From there on, planning is half the work. See which parts can stay attached to to eachother, to paint in one (air)brush stroke and which parts require disassembly. Get some small hobby boxes so you can divide and place each part which go with a limb into a labeled compartment of that box, so you'll know which parts & screws for the leg/arm/torso/etc go where. Then plan washing the parts, letting them dry overnight, then priming then. etc. With decent planning you don't even have to spend so many hours ; because you'll have the next steps planned out over the course of 2 or more weeks.
I never thought I could do one but I have "fixed" the hip kibble on several masterpiece seekers and it improves it so much I couldn't not do it to mine now.
Making an old figure (or even a new one) into something only people could imagine is why we do it. Some figures look great before the customization but artists make that figure into something that no one would ever expect.
The point to all of it is not so much taking a figure and change it's appearance, it's creating a piece of art, your unique execution of your imagination where the toy is just another material, like paint, lego's and screws. And fyi, I buy to customize. ;-)
Because some of them suck! Just kidding I don't customize unless I'm really certain I want to My only things I planed were to Give Sideswipe black windows. Give Devastator some movie accurate paint. I have already painted sideways's torso black.
I do it to improve upon something. Like, the Ani. Lockdown hand mod. or HA Bee's leg mod. Though on some mediocre toys that I never mess with or are not on display, I completely paint them up.
Because they like to make their own renditions of their favorite characters. Sometimes it's a small change, like a paint app. Hasbro often skips some of them to cut down costs. Usually you do that for your own collection. If it's FrenzyRumble, he will likely sell on ebay for much more.
I usually add paint apps to most of my tfs. I don't intend to sell them so I don't care about their value. I think adding your own personal touch makes them different and makes them truly yours. Plus some tfs just look 100x better with he right paint.
Exactly! I bought an Acid Storm specifically to paint into Thundercracker. I'm no customizer but I'm quite pleased at how it turned out. Might try it again for an improved figure as I get better.
Beats me why people customize. I can't see for the life of my why someone would want a Classics Sunstorm or an ROTF Rampage with proper elbows *leaves the SG universe*
Just yesterday I received an amazing transformable custom from Anemis,a tfw2005 member and a very skillfull artist.. "why customize?" well, I think that a pic can answer to the topic's question better than one-thousand words. and again..Thank you Anemis!
