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fakebusker83 02-02-2011 04:49 PM

Shattered Glass Rodimus in movie style!
 
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Here's presenting movie styled Shattered Glass Rodimus! A sort of technical successor to the previous classics version, the flame work on this guy is decidedly more delicate and more flame-like. When I saw the Sidearm Sideswipe mold, I knew that he is destined for a Rodimus repaint.


A pretty simple project to say the least, the steps I took are:
Krylon black base coat
Silver, gold, blue detailing
white flame base with purple tint overlay
Future clear coat

I did this project with several experiments in mind, which are:

I want to test the effectiveness of Krylon Fusion in bonding to plastic, and it's usefulness as a primer.
It certainly is stronger than Gunze flat black as a base coat, but it will still scratch more easily than I'm comfortable with.

How small are the smallest flames possible with my airbrush? How realistic can I get real fire?
Flames can be pretty small, in fact. With a low air pressure and very thin paint, I can even do smoke trails almost 2 mm in width. But this takes a lot of care and risk.


Annoyingly, the white Gunze paint I used always failed on me. No matter what tricks I tried to get it the correct consistency, it will either splurt out in thick drops, or in drippy streams getting over all my previous flames. I had to do many cycles (at least 5) of spraying over in black for correction and re-spraying, including a few minutes of pulling my fur out.
Strangely, I never had that problem with the rest of my paints. Rargh.


In the end the flame effects were more muffled than I'd like, but I decided to call it a day. Until the next flamin' project...

Practice more on my small scale sculpting.
I intentionally included teeth and whiskers in my face sculpt just to see how small I can go. I was pretty satisfied with the results!


Also...
Here's some advice for you guys. Because of his transformation scheme, he has plenty of rub spots on his car shell as everything was crammed into his torso. The picture below has the spots circled. It was unfortunate that the markings appeared after I sprayed my clear coat, but to those who want to do a repaint of SS, make sure to sand down the contact points sufficiently and you shouldn't have a problem. Also, the soft material used on the side mirrors do not take kindly to Krylon paint.


So in conclusion, here he is, SG Rodimus movie style.


Flickr is here.

Alexander Quinn 02-02-2011 05:04 PM

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That is friggin' beautiful man. Absolutely amazing!!!

racerguy76 02-02-2011 05:07 PM

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Awesome work dude, that paint job is tits!

Prowl_2009 02-02-2011 05:10 PM

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Incredable! Really works for a movie-verse Shattered Glass Rody. :cool:

jjwankenobi 02-02-2011 06:14 PM

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That's the first time I've lusted over the Movieverse Sideswipe mold.

Bravo!

plowking 02-02-2011 06:34 PM

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holey moley!!....that is just flat out amazing!!....love it....Love It....LOVE IT!!

Tekkamanraiden 02-02-2011 07:10 PM

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Those are some unbelievable flames!

Grimlock4Prime 02-02-2011 09:08 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tekkamanraiden (Post 311576)
Those are some unbelievable flames!

They tickle me in all the right ways.

Akroyer 02-02-2011 09:12 PM

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Just incredible paint job !!

chans formers 02-02-2011 09:48 PM

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beautiful flame job!!!!!
the head sculpt is so evil looking too!!!
the last pic almost looks like a "aliens" vs tf's crossover with him flashin' his choppers:D

(about the mirrors,krylon's pretty bad for those softer kinds of plastic.it'll never dry because it'll always be reacting with it chemically.i find that acrylics work better on that kind of material.same thing with the classics seeker's nosecones:))


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