been messing with some dyeing techniques lately and I've finally gotten the hang of it a bit. Acquired a JUNK pm op in a trade recently and I've been wanting to customize it, only problem is that I have no experience with painting, so I did this:




I wish I had taken pictures of these pieces before I dyed them, but if anyone has ever seena badly sun damaged PMOP then you can imagine how they looked.

 

Purple Master Optiumus Pime!

 

not bad. its a little uneven, but not a whole lot you can do about that. maybe you could paint over this with a similar color, and this would help hide any scratches you might incur in the future in the paint.

 

I was planning either getting new stickers from reprolabels, or painting over the parts which are uneven.

 

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/cefurox/P1010038-1.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/cefurox/P1010037-1.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/cefurox/P1010036.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/cefurox/P1010040.jpg

Added some new pictures of his torso and arms, I have dyed the blue parts black but I don't have pictures yet.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/cefurox/P1010042.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/cefurox/P1010043.jpg

 

the torso looks almost brown. what are you making this into?

 

I trying to make it silver/grey but I didn't have enough dye (only a little bit of powder) so I had to add some navy blue and black and it turned out this deep maroon-ish color. Basically I'm just making this into a decepticon PMOP and this is a way to get practice dying.

 

ahh ok.

 

Any pics of the blue parts gone black?

I'm about to try dyeing some blue pieces myself, and I want to get an idea of how black it gets...

 

blue parts seem to turn the best black to me, from my experiences.

 

added new pictures, check it out guys

 

what else you have left to do?

 

need to add some stickers, paint the front bumper and maybe the windows. I'm also having a really hard time re-inserting the long pins, can you help me at all with that? I used a hammer to drive one back in but I kept hitting parts of the figure....

 

you can heat the pin up first...

 

is that what you do?

 

sometimes. I don't ever hammer them back in, I will use pliars to grip the pin, and push and twist it back in. On shorter ones, you can lay a junker cloth or sock under the part, and then place one side of your needle-nosed pliars there, and the remaining side above the pin and push it in by simply squeezing the pliars closed.