Customs: Stupid decisions when customizing

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  1. DaveKyzer, Nov 5, 2009
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    How many of you have made a really stupid mistake while working and discovered it either during the work or too late.
    I want to not feel like an idiot for:

    Buying the materials and parts for an ROTF G2 Grimlock, just for me to realize that the blue Ironhide I was making already exists.
     
  2. Altitron, Nov 5, 2009
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  3. MoeSizzlac, Nov 6, 2009
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    how about buying all the pieces to make a ROTF fully transformable Dev and finding out that they aren't making all the molds. That kind of upset me because I wouldn't have bought them if I had done a little more research. D'oh!
     
  4. Treadshot A1, Nov 6, 2009
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    Stupid decisions?

    1. Start kitbashing.
    2. Make many plans for Cosmos to be changed into 13 other characters, only to never find a single cosmos other than the Henkei one.
    That's all for now.
     
  5. QmTablit, Nov 6, 2009
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    Wanting to do too much to Arcee.
     
  6. aprim, Nov 6, 2009
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    Sometimes I dremel too quick and find a better way, if only I didnt cut that piece.
     
  7. alfred p. sloan, Nov 6, 2009
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    Painted ROTF Mixmaster's head a silver-grey last night. You know bored and listening to the WTF Podcast. Gotta make it cgi accurate, right?

    Well it is painted and looks less than spectacular. I wish I had left it the Brown color. Now I have to paint the whole damn thing.
     
  8. alfred p. sloan, Nov 6, 2009
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    Painted ROTF Mixmaster's head a silver-grey last night. You know bored and listening to the WTF Podcast. Gotta make it cgi accurate, right?

    Well it is painted and looks less than spectacular. I wish I had left it the Brown color. Now I have to paint the whole damn thing.
     
  9. alfred p. sloan, Nov 6, 2009
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    Painted ROTF Mixmaster's head a silver-grey last night. You know bored and listening to the WTF Podcast. Gotta make it cgi accurate, right?

    Well it is painted and looks less than spectacular. I wish I had left it the Brown color. Now I have to paint the whole damn thing.

    Maybe it'll grow on me, but I have made the mistake of custom painting a transformer only to like the unpainted look better.
     
  10. alfred p. sloan, Nov 6, 2009
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    Shoot, triple post...sorry i can be a bit impatient
     
  11. amd098, Nov 6, 2009
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    ha this is last night
    took IPA to remove rotf gear's garrish green paint... turns out it stripped his silver paint off as well
    hes a greyish robot with silver paint over it, ugh
    but atleast i have silver paint to fix that myself
     
  12. wylungz, Nov 6, 2009
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    how about doing all that work on the ROTF Prime hand switch with the 07's hands and then wen ur done and painted.. and it comes to making guns.. u realize that u found a great way to make handles for the original ROTF primes hands that will be stable and stifff.. and then you have a dilemma.. articulated hands or just molded ones but you get very stiff, secure, gun handle... u realize that the O7's hands u just made that are so perfect ... are no longer needed....
     
  13. Solrac333, Nov 6, 2009
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    I think it's stupid on Hasbros part, not yours.
     
  14. Treadshot A1, Nov 6, 2009
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    Being so excited about making Guntank that i forget to install joints for the treads to swivel, and now it gets in the way of his shoulders moving.