Customizing Q&A Thread

[prime13]

Hello. I am looking for good places to buy styrene and a good bonding adhesive and Primer.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[chans formers]

Originally Posted by CyberMnky

I'm looking to replace the head on my Alternity Megs, I don't care about the engine cover plate thingy, but I was hoping to find something more Beast Megs looking to match the Reprolabel set I got him... Any suggestions?

have you tried looking at cybertron deluxe beast megatron?i think his head would fit pretty good with a bit of shaving here and there and the face/likeness is there already

[CyberMnky]

Originally Posted by chans formers

have you tried looking at cybertron deluxe beast megatron?i think his head would fit pretty good with a bit of shaving here and there and the face/likeness is there already

Thanks for the suggestion, Thanks to Nocturn already getting one hooked up.

[dak]

Originally Posted by prime13

Hello. I am looking for good places to buy styrene and a good bonding adhesive and Primer.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

not sure what's out where you live, but a hobby store for styrene and brush paints, Canadian tire for sprays and adhesives.

[SamiWCP]

The latest custom I'll be doing for someone is a Ttransmetal 2 Tigerhawk..This guy doesn't look like he's gonna be a lot of fun to take apart..But anyways, the guy wants the parts of the figure that are blue chrome to be painted gold...When repainting a figure--is chromed paint an issue? Does it take to spray paints as well as anything else or should I strip it? And if so, how do you go about removing chromed or metallic paints?

[Malwave]

well that depends on what paint you use.

For Anubus' car body I used this:


It does the job of looking like actual gold, just don't use enamel sealer on it; the gold gets defused slightly.

This is about all I can suggest as I'm not an expert on chrome paint

[chans formers]

Originally Posted by SamiWCP

The latest custom I'll be doing for someone is a Ttransmetal 2 Tigerhawk..This guy doesn't look like he's gonna be a lot of fun to take apart..But anyways, the guy wants the parts of the figure that are blue chrome to be painted gold...When repainting a figure--is chromed paint an issue? Does it take to spray paints as well as anything else or should I strip it? And if so, how do you go about removing chromed or metallic paints?

that vacuum metallized coating on him(met. blue parts) is a total bit#h to try spraying.it has a tendency to "spider crack/vein the minute you hit it with any kind of enamel,be it base,primer or clear.if there's any kind of cracks in the "metallized" surface,the reducers in the paint itself will seep underneath the metalized parts and pretty much ruin your new coat of paint.even if you were lucky enough to get a nice coat to stick to it,then you have to worry about the metallized coating itself flaking of which is unfortunately widespread among the beastwars/beastmachines figs.the best bet is to use a fine/semi coarse wire brush and strip it all off,then you shouldn't have any adhesion problems with your new paint.(i only know this because i repainted beastmachines ultra jetstorm 3 times total to make the botcon version.the first 2 times there was alot of cursing going on in both chinese and vietnamese,till i stripped off all the vacuum metalized coatings the third time)

[Malwave]

oh removing...


*facepalms* -_-; gotta read the whole topic before I reply

[TTT]

Originally Posted by SamiWCP

The latest custom I'll be doing for someone is a Ttransmetal 2 Tigerhawk..This guy doesn't look like he's gonna be a lot of fun to take apart..But anyways, the guy wants the parts of the figure that are blue chrome to be painted gold...When repainting a figure--is chromed paint an issue? Does it take to spray paints as well as anything else or should I strip it? And if so, how do you go about removing chromed or metallic paints?

Strip off the chrome first, light sanding(nail file) and rubbing alc. to assist in recessed areas works great for me.(more sanding than anything else)

[SamiWCP]

And for the first time I have to admit failure. While my heart really wasn't into doing repaints again..And I should have researched who this figure was before I agreed to it, and noticed all that vacuum sealed chrome and metallic paints etc..It was just too much to try and remove it..not to mention that silly figure is nothing but frikking spring loaded parts and pins etc..ugh. Headache. I've never failed at a repaint before..but this time I have to call it. Blah. Anyone have a spare Tigerhawk body for sale?