Classics Sunstreaker's shiny new paintjob!

[liegeprime]

nice! bring it to the meet if its not too much a hassle loopy so we can marvel at it in person! btw are those scratches on the windshield?

[jacksplatt11]

Looking really good, and yeah, windshield looks a little funny

[Pulse]

nice! bring it to the meet if its not too much a hassle loopy so we can marvel at it in person! btw are those scratches on the windshield?

Looking really good, and yeah, windshield looks a little funny

That's the first thing that hit me too... I hope it's just smudged fingerprints...

[lcz128]

REALLY loving your work, loopy!
Damn, that's spectacular! I'd like to be able to do that, too, but living upstairs in a flat/apartment thing, using an airbrush would be tough :\

That said, what kind of clear coat do you use? the paint looks so nice and solid that I imagine it's kind of be chip resistant?

Looking forward to learnin' from ya

[k.wong23]

awesome stuff loopy! I might just try that this holidays

[Wheel-J]

Amazing Dude!!

This makes me want to try this painting thing someday.
When that time comes, I think I need to put these things in my grocery list.

1. fine line tape about 4mm wide
2. a razor blade to tape out the windows
3. Automotive paints Dupont Giallo Midas Pearl
4. mithril silver
5. P1200 wet sand paper
6. antistatic prepsol
7. plastic primer
8. Warhammer paints
9. airbrush

And just for my sake, I list down again your procedures into 10 Steps - just like a recipe book.

here's a quick summary of what for whoever wants to know
1. Pull apart
2. Lightly sand the parts with P1200 wet sand paper
3. Use antistatic prepsol to clean it up.
4. Set up all the pieces for the painting
5. Put plastic primer
6. Followed by the underground colour which is just a solid yellow
7. Put on the basecoat colour which has the pearl part of it in it.
8. After all of that, put on the clear
9. Then left it to harden up in the spray booth
10. Then put all back together.

[loophole]

nice! bring it to the meet if its not too much a hassle loopy so we can marvel at it in person! btw are those scratches on the windshield?

I can most defientaly bring him to the meet... and yeah those are scratches on the windscreen there was a little bit of overspray on the windshield and i went to clean it off with a little bit of thinners BAD IDEA melted the plastic straight way so sanded it flat to either try and polish them out to make it look original or i will have to paint all of the window parts

REALLY That said, what kind of clear coat do you use? the paint looks so nice and solid that I imagine it's kind of be chip resistant?

The clear coat is a twopack clear which is the clear added with hardner and then sprayed on, it is also the same stuff that is used on real cars so hopefully it should be pretty chip resistant. I was also little paranoid about having paint build up around the joints and clips and not being able to transform him properly but there doesnt seem to be any problems there.

[GoktimusPrime]

Lookin' good with that silver. You gonna paint the spoiler silver too for that added G1 goodness?

[loophole]

Lookin' good with that silver. You gonna paint the spoiler silver too for that added G1 goodness?

Sorry Gok but the rear spoiler is going to stay yellow

[loophole]

Well i have finshed doing all the paint applications that i wanted to do for his robot mode and without any further delay...






just wanna get an autobot sticker for his chest now and then will be done completely

and now after doing this one i might have to pick a henkei Swideswipe and have a go painting him in a candy apple red colour