Masterpiece Grimlock (Animation Ver.)

Update!

Hokay.

My bad.

I forgot about the other MP Grimlock that I completed many moons ago. Again I thought it was, but the again it wasn't...looks like I am getting old. Another 3 years I'm hitting the big 4-0...hahahaha...

Okay, so this client requested I di a simple finishing. Get rid of the gold and chrome and make it look as close to it's animated version. The gray parts was actually sprayed with clear flat coat rather than doing a full on gray repaint.

Looks good IMHO...

Here he is...

Masterpiece Grimlock (animation ver.)

There ya all go. Heh. Sorry again to the client!

Next up...one name: MAGNUS!

Hasbro Generations Hauler

Update!

Yeah...I'm suppose to post some other works, but I felt like sharing this guy first...heh...

A long time ago, I managed to get hold of a Generations Inferno. I loved the mold and the design...Years later, I lost interest and planned to repaint the guy into something else...

Grapple? It's been done...

So I asked some ideas from friends in the Transformers collectors group. One of them suggested Hauler. I quickly looked it up. And yes, there is such a character and furthermore...he was in one of the first episodes of the classic G1 cartoon series!

With new vigour, and feeling good about being back to customising...Hauler was in the works...

After a few weeks of working on him (had to schedule my time with commissioned works as well)...here he is...

Generations Hauler

Vehicle mode:

Yeah...and that concludes our story for today. Heh. Stay tune for my next posting!

Masterpiece Grimlock (Full Repaint)

Update!!

Hey guys...okay, I'm mixing my postings a bit. Was supposed to continue with the remaining 2 Imagins from the Den-O repaint, but I was thinking why not save that and share something else...

Hookay, the last time I actually repainted a Transformer figure was way back in 2012...I think it was after endless repainting of Transformer movie figures, I was burnt out. Not to mention kick starting my own TF repaints was also a struggle...so after a year plus, I'm back to painting the good ol' robots in disguise. It felt good really, and with the new technical know how's...it was pretty interesting to use those new tricks...

And what better way to start off with a Transformers Masterpiece figure. Not just any figure, but that big lug head Grimlock!

Interesting thing about working with this figure, was actually the owner himself. It was a joy to work with him since he knew what he wanted. He also gave me some creative freedom to add some of my own touch in painting his figure. And now he's become one of my good friends and it's interesting to see the ideas that he has and wants to do...

So, this particular MP Grimlock went through a full body repaint. As in, every single part of his body was repainted. The gold part was painted yellow with some light orange stripes, and the chrome parts was painted white. The gray was an interesting mix, since the owner actually had some ideas on how he wanted his gray...so I gave him a twist of metallic gray with a tinge of light silver on top.

The down part of this was the whole folder of pictures that I took was corrupted, and I had to ask the owner to take some pics for my portfolio...

Masterpiece Grimlock

"Me Grimlock not repaint...Me King!!"

Well, I can really say that with this guy...it marks me back in repainting Transformers figures. I finally took out most of my TF personal project that I worked on a while back...so stay tuned!

TF:PRIME Voyager Optimus Prime

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Yes...I know it's kinda late, but we're still in January right?

Okay...

Update!

Well, this is practically the first thing I finished. Now don't get me wrong, it's not as simple as it looks. You see this figure, didn't have much screw on it. But it had a bunch of bolted in parts. Yes. And then it came down to masking it then. And that was a 'bitch' to do. Yeah, I'm using a profound word to explain how hateful it was to do it. LOL.

Now here is the image before the repaint. My client requested to repaint only the gray ugly parts, not a full repaint.

Simple right. Wrong. It was hours of masking and figuring out how and where the heck should I mask. One of the most tedious things that I hate doing. But the outcome was pretty good. Here it is...(excuse the backgrounds. I was a bit lazy...heheheh)

And that's all for now peeps! One thing that you'd have to look out is the rubber smokestacks and blade. As you can see, there doesn't seem to be any problem...until you bend it.

Till next time~