Minor/Repaint: Super ginrai

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    Wowza. Beautiful..
     
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    Beautiful paints! Nicely done!
     
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    No idea. They said they were waiting for Power-Bomber to come out before making a possible sticker set.
     
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    Great job
     
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    Really really nice. I like that the white trailer parts are essentially a dark gunmetal now, that's some excellent wash material. The light up eyes are fantastic.
     
  6. Jhund

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    Guess we gotta wait and see then, think it might be similar to the stickers for pmop?
    thanks man.

    thanks , yeah I repainted it to light gun metal followed by a wash. same with the legs . But I think I'll do maybe another one ,if I ever see it's price drop. This time maybe to be anime accurate , but I do worry about the upper thighs looking like hardhead' boxer shorts look... hmm we'll see
     
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    I have no inside knowledge of what they will plan, but I suggested changing the white parts (thighs, stripes on the cab, trailer etc) to metallic silver, and some of the grey parts to chrome, to better match the original toy. I also suggested that the cab and robot chest windows get dark metallic blue stickers, too. I also reminded them that PE would be making add on parts, so they might want to wait and/or make sets for those too.
     
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    Yeah I strongly agree to your suggestions, I've always had a strong feelings against white plastic on my transformers. Be it unwarranted worry of yellowing or not I always stain them and coat .. just incase. No comments on the chest windows but the darn wipers and window grills haha should be silver. Been looking at some paints in regards to silver to white , i think aluminium silver might work? I tried it on my mp-10 and it looks pretty nice. Made me consider doing another ginrai, really didn't want to strip paint from my current ginrai ...
     

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    I have found that silver acrylics, like white and yellow paint, are rather thin. I have to apply several coats to make it work.

    I've had some better results (although test it first yourself) painting (bolt) gun-metal or black first and then painting silver over that instead.