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Custom Painting Bionicle


Arcee

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I've been thinking of repainting a model--either an Agori (specifically Atakus) or a Bohrok--to give it some cool weather.

 

I'm picking these sets specifically because they look pretty great out of the box without requiring modifications to beef them up or make them look better from another angle, and articulation won't really matter.

 

I don't have any Bohrok on hand though. Are they blended translucent-opaque pieces, or is the opaque part painted on? i can't quite remember and if it's blended I'll have a harder time doing the Bohrok than Atakus.

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Blended. Like, most of the top half appears to be transparent with paint, but the bottom part with the rod holes is clearly solid colors. (Well, for the original Bohrok anyway. The piece has appeared elsewhere in solid colors, like Keetongu or Von Nebula. Or even the Kal had just solid silver with printing on them.

 

:music:

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Blended. Like, most of the top half appears to be transparent with paint, but the bottom part with the rod holes is clearly solid colors. (Well, for the original Bohrok anyway. The piece has appeared elsewhere in solid colors, like Keetongu or Von Nebula. Or even the Kal had just solid silver with printing on them.

 

:music:

Could do a weathered Lehvak-Kal, then, since that's the only one that's technically in pretty good shape-- could paint it up to look like it reentered the atmosphere or something, all burned up and damaged from cold space and initial rocketing up there.

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That's sort of funny because post-2003 Lehvak-Kal was one of my oooooooold fanfic characters. Unoriginal I guess but I was pretty young, but that's pretty much how it appeared in the story

 

Thanks, @xccj, I'm thinking about how to handle a blended piece. Doing anything with transparent plastic is pretty tough anyway since scratching or chipping or sanding it basically renders that spot opaque. Then again I doubt the shell will need much modification if I want to keep it clear.

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