Customs: Your favorite things learned/to learn of customizing?

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  1. marvel b, Apr 27, 2020
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    So this has been on my mind lately, because I want to know what are your favorite things you learn/learned while customizing?

    My thing is learning the plastics used in some situations of stripping paint. Like learning that Betatron's combiner head is molded in white or Bruticus' is molded in metal grey, same with his thighs. I just find it really interesting the choices Hasbro goes with sometimes.
     
  2. Grimwolf100, Apr 27, 2020
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    how a little detail work can go along way
     
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  3. Prime Noble, Apr 27, 2020
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    How artist blades are very good for cleaning/removing paint on small detail work.

    How tooth picks are good for painting optic sensors.

    How spray painting works nicely on larger surface areas.

    How relaxing customising is. I've had evenings where I'll start around 7 pm with stand up in the background on YouTube and before I know it, it's 1am.

    How rewarding it is to try seemingly unlikely molds for characters and find how well they can work like the time I repainted Cybertron Defence Hot Shot as Ruckus.
     
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  4. Maximus Danz, Apr 27, 2020
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    Pretty much the same for me.
    Detailing some pieces with a bit of extra paint makes these figures better than MP's for me.

    The Molotow Liquid Chrome Pen
    (it is a personal joke, I use them on all of my customs)
     
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  5. Wreckage MK4, May 9, 2020
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    For me it’s taking two figures that I was lukewarm or indifferent to and making them into a unified project that I appreciate far more than the originals. My most recent example is POTP Dreadwind and Siege Rumble together as both components of Masterforce Buster. It’s amazing what some slight cutting, drilling, putty and paint can do for a figure...... that and ripping out forced gimmicks and fixing a figure is always satisfying.
     
  6. Snaku, May 12, 2020
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    My favorite thing I've learned is how bad I am at seeing a custom through to completion :( 

    So far I've completed one full repaint and one human mini figure (though that one came out great if I do say so myself). Other than that, I've done a handful of minor touch ups and mods and I have I don't even know how many unfinished or abandoned projects laying around. I am planning on buying a resin 3d printer with my stimulus (fucked it up by messing up my account number on the irs site so now I'm waiting for a mailed check) so hopefully that'll allow me to pick up a few of the projects that I just couldn't get to work on the fdm printer.
     
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