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this is my customs thread. Here I will post my customs and maybe sometimes ask for some inspiration, help, tricks and tips or just discuss with you the stuff I've made. So if you are interested subscribe to this thread or leave a post and share your thoughts

Here is a list of customs shown in this thread that will be updated. The ones with hyperlinks are already made and posted, the ones without will (hopefully) be in the future:

- IDW / R.I.D. Impactor with Mini-Con partner Armorhide [click me]

- Beast Wars Impactor with Mini-Con partner Armorhide

- the IDW miners trio

- Legends class The Fallen [click me]

- R.I.D. The Fallen

- Beast Machines Jhiaxus

- TF Prime Airachnid (spiderbot mode)

- Movie Tarn

- Movie Ironfist

- TransTech Twinferno

- TransTech Cryotek

- TransTech Lugnut

- G2 Beachcomber

- PotP Optimal Optimus
- with Prime Masters

- TR Repugnus

- CYBERVERSE Cybershark

- Abominus

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Battlemask and chainsaw deployed:


A Look behind the mask:



And my partner Armorhide:


Tank mode without Armorhide:


Tank mode with Armorhide:




And at night:



comparison (tank mode):


comparison (robot mode):



More images here:
DEVIANT ART gallery

More images here:
DEVIANT ART gallery

A little fun intermission...

Impactor looks great! I would totally love that. Is Armorhide one of the actual minicons or did you steal him from that other marble shooting transforming toyline I cannot think of the name of right now? I see Armorhide sorting behind his back. And I like what you did with the luminescent paint.

Fallen is awesome. Getting those tiny details painted is no easy task ajd you really did a great job with those

Flashwave wrote:Impactor looks great! I would totally love that. Is Armorhide one of the actual minicons or did you steal him from that other marble shooting transforming toyline I cannot think of the name of right now? I see Armorhide sorting behind his back. And I like what you did with the luminescent paint.

Thank you very much
I guess you mean Bakugan. No, the original figure is an R.I.D. 2015 Deployer. That's an action gimmick that launches/shoots Mini-Cons that are especially made for those launchers. Impactor here or the original figure Overload uses Cyclone Mini-Cons. Those are ball-shaped like Armorhide (originally: Backtrack) here. And Overload and Backtrack come packaged in a 2-pack like all Deployer figures but you can buy additional Mini-Cons separately.
And yes, I really like to use fluorescent paints and mix them with normal ones to get this effect with a lot of colors under UV-light. It looks just awesome and really fits to Transformers. I love the War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron games' designs and the IDW comics addapted that glowing details design pretty well, too. So I want all of my figures to look kind of like that.

Fallen is awesome. Getting those tiny details painted is no easy task ajd you really did a great job with those

And thanks again
Yes, but I used a very fine brush so that made it a bit easier at least.

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Impactor looks great! I would totally love that. Is Armorhide one of the actual minicons or did you steal him from that other marble shooting transforming toyline I cannot think of the name of right now? I see Armorhide sorting behind his back. And I like what you did with the luminescent paint.

Thank you very much
I guess you mean Bakugan. No, the original figure is an R.I.D. 2015 Deployer. That's an action gimmick that launches/shoots Mini-Cons that are especially made for those launchers. Impactor here or the original figure Overload uses Cyclone Mini-Cons. Those are ball-shaped like Armorhide (originally: Backtrack) here. And Overload and Backtrack come packaged in a 2-pack like all Deployer figures but you can buy additional Mini-Cons separately.
And yes, I really like to use fluorescent paints and mix them with normal ones to get this effect with a lot of colors under UV-light. It looks just awesome and really fits to Transformers. I love the War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron games' designs and the IDW comics addapted that glowing details design pretty well, too. So I want all of my figures to look kind of like that.

Fallen is awesome. Getting those tiny details painted is no easy task ajd you really did a great job with those

And thanks again
Yes, but I used a very fine brush so that made it a bit easier at least.

Thank you, I couldnt remember the name. I jist didn't recognize the Minicon then

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Impactor looks great! I would totally love that. Is Armorhide one of the actual minicons or did you steal him from that other marble shooting transforming toyline I cannot think of the name of right now? I see Armorhide sorting behind his back. And I like what you did with the luminescent paint.

Thank you very much
I guess you mean Bakugan. No, the original figure is an R.I.D. 2015 Deployer. That's an action gimmick that launches/shoots Mini-Cons that are especially made for those launchers. Impactor here or the original figure Overload uses Cyclone Mini-Cons. Those are ball-shaped like Armorhide (originally: Backtrack) here. And Overload and Backtrack come packaged in a 2-pack like all Deployer figures but you can buy additional Mini-Cons separately.
And yes, I really like to use fluorescent paints and mix them with normal ones to get this effect with a lot of colors under UV-light. It looks just awesome and really fits to Transformers. I love the War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron games' designs and the IDW comics addapted that glowing details design pretty well, too. So I want all of my figures to look kind of like that.

Fallen is awesome. Getting those tiny details painted is no easy task ajd you really did a great job with those

And thanks again
Yes, but I used a very fine brush so that made it a bit easier at least.

Thank you, I couldnt remember the name. I jist didn't recognize the Minicon then

Hey LP, just saw this on the roundup and figured I’d drop by. With classes starting up I haven’t been able to customize in ages, but your work is still very inspiring.
I saw some of your customs on “the other site”, too. Very curious to see how BW impactor turns out.
With earthfall revealed, does anything from that seem to be worth customizing?

Latebrus-K wrote:Hey LP, just saw this on the roundup and figured I’d drop by. With classes starting up I haven’t been able to customize in ages, but your work is still very inspiring.
I saw some of your customs on “the other site”, too. Very curious to see how BW impactor turns out.
With earthfall revealed, does anything from that seem to be worth customizing?

Hey Lb-K, nice to hear from you again. Yea, same here with work. I just started my first "real/big" job.
You should continue to watch my progress on "the other site" because as feedback has been pretty "temperate" in here and as you can see I stopped updating in here and started and continued over there.
Just let me know what's your name there
As I prefer Cybertronian/futuristic and beast modes, Earthrise doesn't look that interesting to me so far. And I already got enough on my to-do list
There's a figure/project I'll start working on after BW Impactor and Jhiaxus. I already have most of its parts ordered and on the way. It's not on the list in my threads yet. But it's a very ambitious project and I hope most of the stuff I wanna do with it works out. It's way bigger than what I've done so far.

[...], but your work is still very inspiring.

I already got an emulator on "the other site"

Lunatic Prime wrote:

IDW / R.I.D. Impactor with Mini-Con partner Armorhide

Remember me?

I'm back!




Battlemask and chainsaw deployed:


A Look behind the mask:



And my partner Armorhide:


Tank mode without Armorhide:


Tank mode with Armorhide:




And at night:



comparison (tank mode):


comparison (robot mode):



More images here:
DEVIANT ART gallery

Dang... I never thought I'd see the day when RiD Overload looked awesome like that! Hats off to you and your amazing skills, sir!

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

IDW / R.I.D. Impactor with Mini-Con partner Armorhide

Dang... I never thought I'd see the day when RiD Overload looked awesome like that! Hats off to you and your amazing skills, sir!

Thanks for the kind words, mate!
I'm always glad about every appreciation

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

IDW / R.I.D. Impactor with Mini-Con partner Armorhide

Dang... I never thought I'd see the day when RiD Overload looked awesome like that! Hats off to you and your amazing skills, sir!

Thanks for the kind words, mate!
I'm always glad about every appreciation

I'm planning on making a Nova Prime out of TR Optimus. Do you have any tips? It'll be my first real customization project.

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

IDW / R.I.D. Impactor with Mini-Con partner Armorhide

Dang... I never thought I'd see the day when RiD Overload looked awesome like that! Hats off to you and your amazing skills, sir!

Thanks for the kind words, mate!
I'm always glad about every appreciation

I'm planning on making a Nova Prime out of TR Optimus. Do you have any tips? It'll be my first real customization project.

I'm looking forward to see that. Still waiting for an official one and as we get IDW exclusive characters in the Generations line (SIEGE Rung) and Cyberverse cartoon (Tarn) now that's more and more likely to actually happen.
But back to your question...
First of all: WHICH TR OP? There's the Leader class version which is a retool of CW Ultra Magnus and the Voyager one.
But no matter which one it is I suggest that you get very familiar with the figure and know its transformation by heart. If there are any areas where paint could be rubbed or scratched off due to transforming or posing the figure, you should remove material there to prevent that before paiting those parts. But before you remove any material you have to think about how this could affect every single mode of the figure. For example I removed some plastic on the inside of Overload's/Impactor's belly because it scratched off the paint on the belt buckle. Later I found out that I actually needed that edge I removed to connect the torso piece with the launcher in tank mode. Fortunately I found out a little trick to make it still work. But if there are no areas where paint could be scratched off respectively you don't need to mod anything you don't need to think about that.
And maybe you want to dye major areas instead of painting them. Then you have to worry about paintwear even less. But I haven't dyed anything so far except of some clothes by mistake maybe. So I can't help you there.
So then how do you want to paint it? Brush, airbrush, spray can or a combination of those?
And do you want to give him his wings or alter anything else or do you want to do a straight up repaint?

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

IDW / R.I.D. Impactor with Mini-Con partner Armorhide

Dang... I never thought I'd see the day when RiD Overload looked awesome like that! Hats off to you and your amazing skills, sir!

Thanks for the kind words, mate!
I'm always glad about every appreciation

I'm planning on making a Nova Prime out of TR Optimus. Do you have any tips? It'll be my first real customization project.

I'm looking forward to see that. Still waiting for an official one and as we get IDW exclusive characters in the Generations line (SIEGE Rung) and Cyberverse cartoon (Tarn) now that's more and more likely to actually happen.
But back to your question...
First of all: WHICH TR OP? There's the Leader class version which is a retool of CW Ultra Magnus and the Voyager one.
But no matter which one it is I suggest that you get very familiar with the figure and know its transformation by heart. If there are any areas where paint could be rubbed or scratched off due to transforming or posing the figure, you should remove material there to prevent that before paiting those parts. But before you remove any material you have to think about how this could affect every single mode of the figure. For example I removed some plastic on the inside of Overload's/Impactor's belly because it scratched off the paint on the belt buckle. Later I found out that I actually needed that edge I removed to connect the torso piece with the launcher in tank mode. Fortunately I found out a little trick to make it still work. But if there are no areas where paint could be scratched off respectively you don't need to mod anything you don't need to think about that.
And maybe you want to dye major areas instead of painting them. Then you have to worry about paintwear even less. But I haven't dyed anything so far except of some clothes by mistake maybe. So I can't help you there.
So then how do you want to paint it? Brush, airbrush, spray can or a combination of those?
And do you want to give him his wings or alter anything else or do you want to do a straight up repaint?

I'm going to stick with a repaint of the Voyager for now. I plan on using a brush. Got any tips for paints? I just plan on doing the 'bot mode and truck mode.

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

IDW / R.I.D. Impactor with Mini-Con partner Armorhide

Dang... I never thought I'd see the day when RiD Overload looked awesome like that! Hats off to you and your amazing skills, sir!

Thanks for the kind words, mate!
I'm always glad about every appreciation

I'm planning on making a Nova Prime out of TR Optimus. Do you have any tips? It'll be my first real customization project.

I'm looking forward to see that. Still waiting for an official one and as we get IDW exclusive characters in the Generations line (SIEGE Rung) and Cyberverse cartoon (Tarn) now that's more and more likely to actually happen.
But back to your question...
First of all: WHICH TR OP? There's the Leader class version which is a retool of CW Ultra Magnus and the Voyager one.
But no matter which one it is I suggest that you get very familiar with the figure and know its transformation by heart. If there are any areas where paint could be rubbed or scratched off due to transforming or posing the figure, you should remove material there to prevent that before paiting those parts. But before you remove any material you have to think about how this could affect every single mode of the figure. For example I removed some plastic on the inside of Overload's/Impactor's belly because it scratched off the paint on the belt buckle. Later I found out that I actually needed that edge I removed to connect the torso piece with the launcher in tank mode. Fortunately I found out a little trick to make it still work. But if there are no areas where paint could be scratched off respectively you don't need to mod anything you don't need to think about that.
And maybe you want to dye major areas instead of painting them. Then you have to worry about paintwear even less. But I haven't dyed anything so far except of some clothes by mistake maybe. So I can't help you there.
So then how do you want to paint it? Brush, airbrush, spray can or a combination of those?
And do you want to give him his wings or alter anything else or do you want to do a straight up repaint?

I'm going to stick with a repaint of the Voyager for now. I plan on using a brush. Got any tips for paints? I just plan on doing the 'bot mode and truck mode.

I use GUNDAM MARKERS, Vallejo and GREEN STUFF WORLD paints for those applications but I'm not an expert on paints and brands. I hear a lot that Tamiya is very good in general and I myself like GREEN STUFF WORLD's paints a lot because they have some very special stuff like Candy Inks and Colorshifting Metal paints.
And definitely seal your paintjob. I only used Tamiya's coating spray cans for that so far and I'm pretty happy with those. BUT they aren't cheap (what customizing isn't in general).
And no matter if you brush or spray, always put thin layers on top of each other and not before the former layer has dried. A huge mistake a lot of people make is applying paint too thick. So painting demands some patients and repetition. I still have to practise that for spraying.
And as Nova Prime is primarily white and black I'd suggest to basecoat him in the primary color (I guess it'll be white) you want him and then mask the areas you want to stay white and spray black on top of it. Or do it the other way round if your masking medium is more expensive than your paint
And then just paint the details with a fine brush. And I suggest to not get the cheapest fine brush you find because if you wanna go on customizing after this project you'll definitely need a good fine brush. Mine costed about 10€ ($11 or so).
Which colors do you want to use for him, especially details? For TFs I'd always use some metallic paints.