Sunday, April 21, 2019

Paint Touch-Up - KO ( Downsized Ultra Class ??? ) Optimus Primal ( Transformers Beast Wars )

Painted the head of this shampoo-bottle-plastic-ish KO using blue acrylic paint. After this picture is taken, I sealed the paint with super-glue, hope it can help prevent scratches while transforming. Also added some paint to the side of upper legs, and touch up some chipped paint... It looked slightly better...

Friday, April 19, 2019

Repaint Eyes for Model Wizard / Wei Jiang Predaking KO POTP Rampage

The black eyes of KO POTP Rampage (robot mode) seem very weird to me since the day I got them, hence decided will want to paint them today... It will be easier to paint the eyes without smearing accidentally onto the sides around the eyes if the eyes are disassembled and taken out first. Yellow paint pen is used. Also painted the gold eyes of tiger mode into yellow too, to break the eyes from the top forehead golden patch...


Once dried, heads are assembled back...


To me it looks much normal with this eyes colour... wanted to paint the face-plate but then decided not to due to laziness...

Mech Fans Toys ( MFT ) Mech Studio MS05 - Red Bro a.k.a. G1 Transformers Sideswipe

Again is from Taobao.com... forgotten the price... This is the Mech Studio series where MFT comes up with their own design, not KO, similar to their previous Springer. This looks very much like the MP-12, a mini version. Quite nice to transform, but QC level is not good. Lots of trimming to do, have to fix the loose shoulder pins, 1 side of the robot face chin has the blue metallic paint on it, etc. I painted some parts on the shoulder joints to red as the white is very visible when looking it from top. Also painted black the silver screws used for black parts to blend in better... Overall quite a nice figure.


KuBianBao 酷变宝 Ku Bian Bao KBB - KO Evasion Optimus Prime and KO DX9 Armor Kit Set 飞翼擎天

Shipping is more than the actual toy...sigh... anyway, a very nice KO set... I bought this set mainly because I wanted the mouth-plate OP head to put on my previously bought KBB Evasion OP, but slowly grow to like this armor form too... Have to trim the feet tabs as they are too tightly kept in truck mode... Also have to tighten some joints... its a KO after all.... Oh, also painted the eyes blue...


( Wei Jiang ???) Model Wizard - Iron Rhino 铁灵犀 KO Power of the Primes Predaking : POTP Headstrong

Gotten this KO transformers from Taobao.com, for approximately SGD11.  I kind of like this type of soft texture-feel plastic. Joints are quite tight, and as usual, there are a lot of sprue marks to trim. Comes with a set of ratchet joint for their KO Rampage to change the loose gestalt shoulder joint. I do not own the Hasbro version, but from what I gather from the other reviews, this Wizard World version improves on a couple of features e.g. rhino mouth can open, lower leg cover to hide the cavity in robot mode. Overall very nice.

** Side Note: KO Divebomb - I had to file off 1 side of the gestalt's hip joint inner space as it was stupidly tight to slot in this KO Headstrong into it. Strangely, only 1 side of the hip joint is too tight.