custom anime Astrotrain

[Destronr]

Great... True Astrotrain in this version

[dazax1]

that looks better then the ehobby version, good job man

[seekerjet]

@dazax1

Thanks man.

[christiantransfan]

Cool custome!!

[LUGNUT1995]

so sweet, totally awsome

[darknight014]

I love the chrome finish 5/5.

[seekerjet]

@darknight014

Thanks. Initially I wanted to make it plain gray, but I decided to give it a metallic look.

[Swindel27]

Can you paint my astrotrain? LOL! It's perfect!

[seekerjet]

Thanks hehe

[Swindel27]

Awesome job!

[seekerjet]

Thanks man.

[MagneticLehrak]

song?

[Andrew28b]

I think in train mode, some nice black and silver wheels would've broken up the purple. more detail with it that way.

[seekerjet]

Yup. It's not finished yet in train mode, but I couldn't resist making a video. I was planning to make the train tracks white as the cartoon Astrotrain.

[tattimusprime]

damn fine paint job!

[seekerjet]

Thanx! I breathed a lot of paint mist while making this. My lifespan was shortened with 10 minutes just by making this repaint.

[TripleChanger]

awesome job!

[seekerjet]

Thanks, TripleChanger :)

[Transformernut]

That looks absolutely fantastic mate!!

I especially like the paint work on the head, the red visor looks so wicked!!

The only thing I think you should do next is spice up the huge gun with some of the silver paint, just to emphasise some of the details.

Over-all though, it really looks great!!

[seekerjet]

Thanks for the tip. Initially I did intend to give it chrome or silver details (the silencer would become chromed) but I ended up spraying it fully light purple. I decided to make it light purple without other colors to keep it cartoon/artwork-accurate. Another reason is the size of the gun. If a gun as big as that would get more details, it would make Astrotrain look much smaller :)

[Transformernut]

Yeah, good point.

Still, you have done one hell of a good job on Astrotrain!!

[ce2know7]

I think that you did a top notch job! Looks better than the original.

[seekerjet]

Thnx bro. I'm still glad that I also have an unpainted original, just to own it the way it initially was.

[rwalters6986]

Pretty great looking repaint brother! Keep rockin, Ryan

[seekerjet]

thanx :)

[Latinlabel]

Wow, very nice. I'm starting to like the Testor's Spray outcome.

[seekerjet]

I used Testors's chrome spray for the thrusters. All other colors were from Tamiya Color spray paints.

[piemanbegins]

beautiful shuttle and robot mode.

[seekerjet]

Glad u like it :)

[moshman69]

very nice buddy i like gun metal

[seekerjet]

Thanks. It's Tamiya gunship metal. I'm very pleased with this spray paint. Two layers are good enough and it doesn't clog.

[papasmoak]

I've got the E-hobby version in my hands but damn man your custom is sweet, great job with the colors and taping off areas to paint can be a real pain, (darn windows) but you did a professional looking paint job.

[seekerjet]

Taping off the areas was 90% of all effort. It took hours to tape the cockpit and back pieces. The windows were indeed the most time-consuming things to get painted. The golden wheels were the easiest. Just spray :)

[golf123morgan]

hi mate really nice custom great paint finish

[seekerjet]

Cheers. I'm planning to add some necessary additional details later on. The rods on the large train wheels are supposed to be white. His head light on top of the locomotive should also be painted. His lower arms should have triangles and he needs red textures below his chest. My printer pulled a joke on my by giving a correct preview of the stickers that I drew in a program and printed it full size A4 *_*

[golf123morgan]

well the stickers will be good if they ever do a masterpiece astrotrain hahahaha.

just got my paints today to classics thundercracker got spray paint this time so see how that goes.

hope you had a good christmas.

[seekerjet]

I might get another Henkei Starscream to make Skywarp and/or Thundercracker. Yup, Christmas was good. Hope yours was good as well, cheers :)

[AirsoftDistrict]

i cant believe i didnt see this this a great video and custom!

[seekerjet]

Thanks man. I couldn't see this video in high resolution until 2 hours ago because my YouTube account kept displaying it in blurry low resolution.

[UFOGTRS]

that looks great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!mike

[seekerjet]

Thanks Mikey!

[tfaddictt]

great review and custom. i actually never dared to repaint a g1 figure. but you did really well

[seekerjet]

I didn't dare it either. That's why I bought another Astrotrain for this purpose :) This one arrived in horrible condition. It had a lot of dirt and worn-out stickers. I had to do a major clean-up before I could start spray-painting it.

[Alan1701b]

Awesome! I just love your vids man! The fact that you don't talk through it, use various songs, and allow the toy to tell its own story with its very presence is a unique way to go about it! Very refreshing!

Good job! Please keep making these! I'm looking forward to seeing what's coming next!

[seekerjet]

I'm glad you enjoy watching them.

[unpenitrible]

looks like the heike. (no clue how to spell or pronounce it) nice bro 9999999999/5

[seekerjet]

Thnx!

[Progfan1978]

Especially the head now looks fantastic. Now he looks like a big bad motherfucker. As it should be, since he is a Decepticon.^^

5 stars!!!

[seekerjet]

The head was the last part that I worked on. I sprayed it purple and hand-painted the face and stripe on top of his helmet.

[tony77tony77]

nice astrotrain. where can I get one?

[thermaheat123]

you cant he coustom made it

[2Old4Toys]

Nicest looking Astro Train I ever saw. Turned out fantastic! Great job!

[seekerjet]

Thanx. I'm still considering to add some more details to him such as the 2 red striped textures below his chest, the arrows on his lower arms, the yellow rectangles with red redtangle in it on the sides of the space shuttle and white locomotive wheel rods.

[DMSL2007]

Very nicely done m8!

[seekerjet]

^_^

[TorchwoodBelfast]

looks cool

[seekerjet]

Thanks bro.

[1of3knights]

Absolutely BRILLIANT!!

I would say this certainly puts the e-hobby pink/purple and grey reissue to shame!

Do you have any more G1 customs in progress?

D:)

[seekerjet]

Thanks :) The purple I used is the same purple as the cartoon Astrotrain which is lighter than the dark purple of the original Astrotrain paint. His rifle is also repainted, but I forgot to put the other rifle next to it to see the color difference.

I'm working on a G1 Reflector repaint.

[1of3knights]

Reflector eh?! Sounds good!

The purple is a great match for the cartoon version and don't worry about the rifle. I'm sure anyone that has Astrotrain could tell lol.

Keep up the great work mate!!

D:)