For those of us without time or skills, here's a quick way to improve the sickly colours on the Hasbro Combaticons. What you need: - FOC toy in ugly frootloop colours - Tamiya smoke in a can - Junk box to spray in - 20 minutes I didn't even need to disassemble any screws. Just pluck what you can off from the ball joints, chuck em in the box, and give the toy 2-3 light coats on all sides. You won't get Takara quality, but it mutes the neon tones wonderfully. You also get a nice slightly weathered effect if you're into that kind of thing. If you've never used Tamiya spray paints before, they adhere very well to plastics (I've transformed Brawl a few times and nothing is chipping), and they dry SUPER fast. I did these coats within minutes of the previous one. You can see the difference here where I forgot to spray
nice! quick question.... it looks like u just spray the whole figure or not? bc i'm wondering if it's easyier just to do that instead of pucking off the pieces... thanks..
You could... but Brawl's arms and legs are very easily removed, so it helps to get paint more evenly on his torso and back kibble with them out of the way. Pluck his legs off the crotch, and push the arm hinges in his chest towards the back and they slide out easily. No screwdriver needed. I also pulled his head off.
Could we see some pics of this done with the rest of the Combaticons? Assuming you've done so, of course.
Got Brawl as a Guinea-Pigatron. I mean, if it didn't work out I'd end up with a very grimy tank, which isn't all bad. Now that I know it works I'm gonna get Onslaught and Swindle next to smoke em.
Ah, Tamiya Smoke spray. Awesome stuff. Toned down ROTF Long Haul this way (and many others). Thanks for showing this!
oh ok... sounds good... might have to try it out... just like u the orginal green is too bright for my eyes haha...
Well color me impressed, that is a GREAT idea. Never heard of the stuff before, going to have to check it out. I wonder how it'd look as a top coat on customs etc. I'm thinking it might help blend-down haind painted work to something a little more "natural" looking, definitely worth experimenting!
What's the problem with Jazz? If you want to bring out his details, you can try watering down the bottle version of smoke, then running it over so the paint goes into the grooves and such. The spray version will just make him progressively grey.
Damn, I like this effect so much that I may be about to risk it to grimy up my Hercules! Need some test cases first.
