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Classics Bumblebee and Starscream


Dark_Lord_Prime

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Well, I got BB and SS for Christmas, and I love them both.

 

However, you know I can't resist modding my TFs... ;)

 

 

First, Bumblebee's eyes; for whatever reason, Hasbro molded his eyes as a seperate piece. They further molded them in clear plastic, but didn't bother to go all the way and provide light-piping for them. I gave his face a new coat of silver, getting rid of his yellow-rimmed eye sockets, the yellow stripe across the bridge of his nose and the yellow "chin-strap" thing.

 

I can't do anything about the light-piping ATM, but I COULD do something about their color:

 

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I coated the eye piece with clear blue; these pics are of me holding the front half of his head with tweezers under my work light. (Mine was clear, frosted plastic, but Wingus told me his had an amber tint. Make of that what you will.. *shrug*)

 

So far, my only ideas for the light-piping problem are trying to recast at least the front half of his head in clear/clear-blue plastic and paint it yellow and silver, allowing for space to transfer light to his eyes; the other idea is using some pieces of sprue from the clear-parts tree of one of my models and gluing them to the back of the eye piece, then drilling corresponding holes in the back of his head for them to take in light.

 

 

I've got a lot of touch-up painting to do on Starscream, but the first thing I felt the need to do was remount his null-ray cannons on his forearms instead of his shoulders, 'cause they really hinder posability up there.

 

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As for my paint touch-ups.. anybody happen to know the names of the red/burgandy and blue colors he's got?

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Pretty cool. I just wish I had the talent, tools and time. Great job!

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