My Custom Minerva.

SOUNDBLASTER · Post by **SOUNDBLASTER** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:34 am

Unfortunatly I dont have a spare headmaster to go with her but I'm not as fond of the robot mode as much as the alt mode so im happy to keep her in alt mode for all of time . lol

Hope u like

Just waiting for some red stickers to make the emergency crosses and the spoiler sticker and i have plenty of autobot stickers waiting to go overtop of the crosses

Will put up more pics as soon as its finished..

SentinelPrime · Post by **SentinelPrime** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:47 am

Looks awesome Soundblaster! Great painting. I tried my hand at repaint a Nightbeat into a custom Minerva. I hand painted everything, the windows blue and the red trim. But my red trim fails in comparison to yours! How did you get it so precisely done??? Share your painting secrets!

Here's a pic of my attempt. It's not all that good, after all it was my first attempt at custom figure painting!

Post by **Time Traveller** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:04 am

Lotsa masking is my guess, maybe an airbrush?

Sentinel, if you ever want to give her a retry now that you've honed your skills on projects since, a good soak in castrol Super Clean (automotive aisle, purple jug) will probably bring your plastic right back to basics for a second try. If you get something that has crappy paint from years ago, 91% isopropyl alcohol (health and beauty section) will soften it the rest of the way.

SOUNDBLASTER · Post by **SOUNDBLASTER** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:20 am

I took the whole toy apart and painted the green parts white and the yellow parts red with a simple can of dulux spray paint.. I didnt want to mess up what i had achieved by trying to paint the windows on her so i just used stickers that i cut out myself... Hope this helps...

1. take toy apart
2. paint white and red parts
3. DRY THOUROUGHLY
4. Put back together
5. STICKERS FOR WINDOWS...