| MEGATRON (MARVEL
COMICS VERSION)
PROJECT 241.1
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 bunch of them to do crazy, twisted
things with. One of them was Megatron here. I already owned Takara's
regular-colors 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.) |
