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Welcome to the page for my legends class repaints! This includes customs from the legends class lines of the live action films, primarily the Dark of the Moon Cyberverse line. While not as large as my usual Studio Series customs, there's a lot of detail to pick out on these figures!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Bumblebee (DOTM Cyberverse)
2. Ironhide (DOTM Cyberverse)
3. Sideswipe (DOTM Cyberverse)
4. Hot Rod (TLK)

1. Bumblebee (DOTM Cyberverse)

DOTM Cyberverse Bumblebee is probably my favorite Legends class figure of all time. The accuracy was a huge step up from prior legends Bees, and he has his plasma cannon molded in! Over time, however, my Bee that I got on the first day that DOTM figures were available was showing signs of wear after more than 10 years, particularly with the Autobot logo on the hood and the windshield. I decided to take the opportunity to fix it! I removed the remnants of the bot logo and the inaccurate black section of the bumper with IPA, and redetailed the figure in both modes! Particularly happy with how the back of alt mode looks with the taillights, exhaust pipes, and chevy logo.









Paint used:

Testor's enamels:
- Gloss yellow
- Gloss tangerine
- Gloss red
- Flat gunmetal

Acrylics:

- Decoart metallic gold
- Decoart metallic silver
- Folkart metallic blue
- Decoart gunmetal

2: Ironhide (DOTM Cyberverse)

Ironhide was a pretty easy one to work on, most of my work was already laid out by my prior paint on the Studio Series voyager. I added a gunmetal base with silver and gold details, as well as painting the cannons silver with a wash on top to bring out the details. In alt mode I had a lot of fun picking out all the little lights!











Paint used:

Testor's enamels:

- Gloss tangerine
- Gloss red
- Flat gunmetal

Acrylics:

- Decoart metallic gold
- Decoart metallic silver
- Folkart metallic blue
- Decoart gunmetal

Other:

- Vallejo dark gray model wash

3: Sideswipe (DOTM Cyberverse)

For Sideswipe the first step was to, of course, give him a shiny silver base coat! After that I was able to add detailing like the windows, spoiler, taillights and stripe for alt mode and gunmetal in robot mode!









Paint used:

Testor's enamels:

- Gloss red
- Flat gunmetal

Acrylics:

- Decoart metallic gold
- Decoart metallic silver
- Folkart metallic blue
- Decoart gunmetal
- Decoart gloss white

Other:

- Rustoleum silver chrome spray paint

4: Hot Rod (TLK)

For Hot Rod I was able to use the same gunmetal base as my Studio Series custom, but decided to modifythe shade of orange used to be a bit more red, a result I'm pretty happy with!
While the alt mode is not licensed, I painted it to resemble the screen-used Lamborghini Centenario as much as I could, including small lambo logos and the orange details throughout.








Paint used:

Testor's enamels:


- Gloss red
- Metallic silver
- Flat gunmetal
- Extreme lacquer gunmetal (spray)


Acrylics:

- Decoart gloss orange (mixed with red)
- Decoart gloss shimmering silver
- Decoart metallic emperor gold
- Folkart gloss black
- Folkart gunmetal

5: Crosshairs (TLK)

Crosshairs was the first test of this really cool looking metallic green spray paint I found. I was considering using it for the Studio Series version (if they did an AOE retool), and while it is a very nice metallic paint, I feel like the green is just a bit too dark for Crosshairs. I think it still looks really cool on this legends class figure, though!









Paint used:

Testor's enamels:


- Gloss red
- Flat gunmetal
- Metallic green (spray)


Acrylics:

- Decoart metallic silver
- Decoart metallic emperor gold
- Decoart gloss white
- Folkart metallic blue
- Folkart gloss black
- Folkart gunmetal