Same old, same old. Nothing major, just silver over the supposedly silver areas, some gold and other touch ups.  













Update:

 

Love that prime mold so much!!!
The silver just makes it even better!

 

Nice!
Making the insides of his backpack black really helps too!

 

Wow. SO little does SO MUCH! Looks way better man!

 

Looks so much better man, so much!

 

I'll be doing this as soon as I pick up the toy. Great job!

 

Very nice!

 

Looks really great. One thing hasbro dropped the ball on was accurate paint apps. Why make the neck thing bright red? The entire figure would look a zillion time better in a deeper red. One quick thing you can do to drastically improve the paint scheme.... is paint the plates on the insides of the legs bottom red also, like here:

 

With the right paint job this mold will look very movie accurate, but it will take a while for many of us to do it if we want it to look right. I'm currently painting mine, but don't expect to finish robot mode till next week. Truck may take longer. I may put up some in progress pics though.

 

I fell in love with this mold when I saw it, and now that I HAve it, it really is one of thee best Transformer Toys to come out in a while. And you paint apps just look awesome on it! Really makes him come alive!

 

for sure. I'm looking at the CGI pic (I posted in GD) and it's amazing how accurate the little details are. A few minor things were missed, but of all the TFs I've ever painted, this takes the cake for detail. You can easily spend a year painting it all up.

 

that looks so good you'd think it's hasbro's "premium edition".nice paint apps!!!

 

Outdoor shots!
Need to detail up the swords later




There is still some work to go. I'm going all out for the detailing

 

I recommend clear red and turn signal amber for the blades, it's what I plan to use.

 

Your paint job does a big difference for the figure.  

 

Looks so much better! Did you have to disassemble the entire thing to paint him? I imagine so. I'd love to see someone do a full repaint, making the red and blue deeper and more rich looking; that'd be a real challenge because you'd have to recreate or paint around the flames and the orange gradient on the front of the truck.

How well does the paint hold up when you transform him?

 

Zowie, that looks nice!
What makes/types of paint did you use TC?

 

Nice work! this mold looks great without all that horrible grey plastic.

 

fixed hehe.

No but really, nice job. You brought out a lot of the figures potential for sure.

 

Detailed up the swords