| MEGATRON
CLASSIFICATION: REPAINT
MATERIALS USED: ENAMEL PAINTS
FIRST APPEARANCE: THE TRANSFORMERS UK (MARVEL COMICS)
"If I wanted hard work, I wouldn't have become
an artist."
Preamble: For the longest time, the
Megatron toy pissed me off. To begin with, Hasbro made him entirely
the wrong color! In the UK comic book, Megatron was mostly gold!
Only Hasbro's bunch of morons could get that wrong! And his silver
is just slightly the wrong shade! It should be about five percent more
blue! And should I even start with the shape of his head? The
real Megatron has a mullet, just like me! What idiots.
Plus, his stickers suck. They add color
and detail to an otherwise boring toy. So, I decided that I'd had enough!
I was going to make myself a REAL Megatron, one that isn't a total
insult to the character. I took my 80-dollar Takara reissue and painted
him properly.
Construction: I disassembled the
toy first, and spread out his pieces all over the room. He's much easier
to paint this way, of course. Using the same gold coating I had lying
around to fix the atrocities committed to poor Springer, I dyed the silver
chrome on Megatron's chest, arms, and crotch. Then I took gold paint
and painted the black of his shins. How wrong could Hasbro get on this
toy? Megatron is going to be so ticked off when I tell him about what
they did to him!
I reassembled the toy, which is kinda icky now,
and won't transform any more. This is just as well, since his gun mode
would be a hideous checkerboard of silver and gold chrome and a dark yellow
handle. Why didn't Hasbro just make him like this to begin with?
Can't Hasbro get anything right? Yeah, you tell 'em, Megs. Heh
heh.
With a dash of black paint on Megatron's helmet,
my kitbash was complete. He now looks perfectly like Megatron REALLY
looks. If Hasbro really cared about the characters, they would have
made him gold to begin with. And sent the toy to kids for free.
Comments: Megatron is telling me that it's
time for bed now, so I have to finish up this web page and put him back on
the shelf. But now Prime is bitching at because there are these huge
chunks of his lower arms missing. Geez, Hasbro must have it in for
the guy!
I'm glad these guys are my friends. Not
like Mom, who keeps telling me to get a job. |
