This is my first venture into a mild resculpt, but the third Transformer I have painted in it's entirety. So far this project has taken me over 6 weeks of on and off commitment and still has a ways to go but its finally starting to take shape.

I spent countless hours sanding back Bumblebee to get him ready for the enamel spray.

I then taped him up making sure to get the lines tight to the edges to get a nice clean finish.

I then started spraying, all up I think there ended up being around 6 - 8 layers of paint on this little fella.


I then started on the head, exhausts and mufflers.
I knew the head would take the longest, so I built a tripod and cast Bumble's head in a film canister filled with Digger's 2 Part Encapsulation Resin.


While waiting for the resin to cure, I undertook the surprisingly difficult task of building the perfect exhaust pipes for the sides of the car, I ended up after trying countless materials resorted to super heating fencing wire and carefully bending it with a pair of pliers.
The mufflers I nicked off a pair of 1:24 scale Initial D AE86s I had laying around.
After weeks of waiting for the enamel to cure, rub back, cure again etc, I was finally happy with the paintjob and set about reassembling the little fella.


I then finished off with the minor details, I thought the way I painted him especially with the black flares and sideskirts, I thought him to look pretty Billy Bad Ass and as such decided to divert from my initial plan to make him look as close as possible to the show model and decided to give him a harder look. Hence the inclusion of a chain necklace.

Finally came the head, after getting the mix wrong on the initial cast, I recast the head once more and went about shaping this. I still need to add the new horns and add the new mouth.


Hopefully after my new load of Araldite cures of B's head, I will get an assembled pic up.

Let me know what you think so far.