CLASSIFICATION: REPAINT
BASE FIGURE: SCF MEGATRON (CLEAR)
MATERIALS USED: ACRYLIC PAINTS
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS #1

"You confuse madness with genius, Ratchet.  Do you not appreciate the supreme irony of using my traitorous ex-lietenant, Starscream, as the instrument of my revenge?!"

Preamble: Back before anybody had even heard of Heroes of Cybertron, ViceGripX was sending me all his extra translucent variant SCF figures to paint.  I sent a handful of them back to him when I was done, but I kept a lot of them to do crazy, twisted things with.  One of them was Megatron here.  I already owned Takara's painted version of Megatron, so I wanted to do something fun and different with this one.

I've always harped on Marvel Comics for their minimalist approach to color schemes in the TRANSFORMERS comic book, in which every single character is represented using primary colors.  Toys that are black are colored blue in the Marvel universe. Greys and silvers usually translate into blue as well.  Even the color white is represented using shades of blue.  What this means is that Megatron, a character whose toy doesn't have a single trace of blue on him, is represented using three shades of the color.  This has always amused me in a weird kind of way, and the notion of making this messed-up, comics-colored version of Megatron was just wacky enough that I simply had to go ahead with it.

Construction: This was one of the first SCF figurines I painted.  I'd previously done an Ultra Magnus for Nightwind using enamel paints, so I figured I'd be safe to do the same thing again.  The solvents in the paint didn't react with the PVC plastic (silver and gold enamels tend to fare worse in that department than primary colors for some reason), but they still ended up looking pretty lousy.  I've learned to just stick with acrylics for projects like this.

Comments: Compounding the problems mentioned above, I also had to pack up and move shortly after I finished this project (and in the middle of several others).  Wrapping up all my projects in toilet paper to protect them sure seemed like a good idea at the time, but it ended up sticking to the freshly-dried paint.  I had to remove as much as I could without damaging the toy, but I did end up wiping off some of the paint in the process.  (I used to make apologies for the poor quality of my images.  Now that the images are crystal-clear, I make apologies for the poor quality of the paint jobs.  Heh.)