#custom transformers

@aspoitsaa encouraged me to go w my hc design 😽

hes actually not fully dry/done but I wanted to take pics regardless

After a good long while, my first custom transformers repaint is complete! So happy with how Thundercracker turned out in the end and so fired up to do my next one! Like I'm so happy with him, I can't stop picking him up and checking him out from different angles!

(more under break)

My most recent custom, Age of the Primes Nightbird! Made using the Legacy Prowl mold. I based this very directly off some art by GhostPotato, which you can check out over on reddit or twitter!

She was done using mostly acrylic paint, alongside tamiya putty for the head and thighs. They were my first time full on sculpting something out of the stuff, so the results are... less than perfect, but I don't think I did too poorly and the results were definitely successful!

And of course it's hardly a Transformer custom without an alt mode shot. I uh... forgot her head in the rear view, but that's because I always do the vehicle mode shots first. I am not perfect when it comes to reducing the size of joints and stuff so some paint scratch is kinda inevitable. I prefer to tidy up the robot mode and leave that on display...

And here she is with my previous Nightbird custom! (Who was done using Cyberverse Arcee). I haven't done a -ton- of customs, it's still in the single digits, but I think the progress I've made and the improvements to my skills should be at least somewhat apparent. I mean, Cyberverse NB's mask is rough lol. Then there's smaller things like minor paint splotches or the lines on areas where I had to paint two colors on one part. I've also improved with things like a wash for the knee caps and wheels (which is just running a little bit of un-thinned paint over an area to sort of stain it part of a color, as opposed to making a solid block of it). It was a really fun project no matter what! Quick, too. Black is really easy to work with, especially when the base figure is already black... The Prowl mold fits well for Nightbird (especially when you get rid of the cargo shorts thighs), and she doesn't get enough love. The fact her last figure (barring ROTB) was in SIEGE is a crime.