TFA Earth Mode Wasp Project

[Doubledealer]

It's another rainy day here in Brisbane so earlier on I plonked myself down on a comfy chair and started flicking through the good ol' Transformers Animated Almanac. I reached page 49 and there he was, my favourite TFA character, Wasp! "Hmm, I wonder if Hasbro will ever release an activator Earth mode Wasp." I thought. Then I remembered, I have a spare activator Bumblebee in the shed (the one that came bundled with purple Shockwave). Hmmm...*strokes imaginary beard* Half an hour later I came back from the nearest hobby shop & Woolworths armed with (hopefully) enough kit to make one of my own.

Note: I realise that eventually we will see a Fugitive Waspinator (yes, not Wasp due to a trademark issue) but I'm not too fond of the deluxe Bumblebee mould and prefer the scale of the activator (not to mention Fugitive Waspinator won't even have a new head and features some non-cartoon accurate colours eg. purple headlights and windows).

So, as you can see below, here is all the kit I'll be needing (I think).

We have:

-Biodegradable rubber gloves (to keep oil from hands off the paint and plastic, and also so fingerprints don't show on the epoxy parts)
-Masking tape (to cover the wheels & a few other parts before spraying the primer)
-Washing detergent (with warm water to thoroughly clean the plastic)
-Medium Toothbrush (to help with the above)
-Tamiya Modeling Brush HF Standard set (3 brushes of varying sizes)
-Tamiya X-20 Enamel Thinner (for washing the brushes and if needing to thin out any of the paints)
-Tamiya X-1 Black Enamel Paint
-Tamiya X-15 Light Green Enamel Paint
-Tamiya X-16 Purple Enamel Paint
-Revell Color SM365 Enamel Paint (main colour of Wasp's body)
-Mr White Surfacer 1000 (primer)
-Tamiya Epoxy Putty - Smooth Surface - 25g
-Tamiya P400, P600, P1000 Finishing Abrasives (I'll just be using the P1000 sandpaper all over the toy prior to spraying the primer - so it grips the paint nicely)
-Small screwdriver set
-Modelling knife (to lop off activator Bumblebee's horns and 'mohawke')
-Scissors (for cutting the masking tape to size)
-Transformers Animated Activator Bumblebee

I'll be updating the thread with pictures as I go, should be a fun little project!