Transformers: Movie
Let me preface this by saying I wasn't thrilled with the look of the robots in the Transformers movie. Then I saw it and I thought they were okay, not great but okay. Still hard as hell to know what your looking at some times. Then I saw the movie again and altough I still wasn't crazy with the designs I began to accept them as not a replacement to the versions I like but instead a different direction. I was down the shore last week and saw the redo of the Robo-vision prime (Legacy, Voyager whatever they are calling it) and decided to pick it up. The more I looked at it the more I liked it but I wanted to make it's deco more movie accurate. I also loved the amount of odds and ends this figure has in it's sculpt. A little paint does quite a bit.
Using stills from the movie really show very little since the designs are still pretty confusing and hard to focus in on one point. So instead of fighting that I decided to apply it to the way I painted the figure to give it a very movie realistic look. I took a few pictures in darker lighting to kind of showcase the look that existed in the movie as well. I also added some realism to the truck mode and also added yellow to the front of the truck to resemble how it looked in the movie as well.
Optimus Prime-Movie
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He's currently up on ebay for those interested
http://cgi.ebay.com/Optimus-Prime-Trans ... dZViewItem
Thanks
YES I actually do need money. I"m thinking about buying another Voyager Prime, if I can find one, and painting it up like this one. Ebay is fickle though, there is a Bumblee figure on there now going for $700, and although it is a nice customs I"ve seen other versions i"ve like go for far less. A customizer by the name of Jin seems to be racking it in lately with one of his going for $3000 the other week. I'm kind of attached to this one though so I'd rather wait and see if I can pick up another Prime instead of selling this one. Plus I painted this one up for my own collection before I even knew how much people were making on ebay. I've never seen repaints/customs go for the numbers these recent sales are going for.