Custom Painted Hasbro Dark Spiner

This is my custom painted Hasbro Dark Spiner zoid - technically the first Zoid I ever painted. It was about a year prior to me getting my first HMM when I decided to paint this guy, and I must say that it's one of my proudest accomplishments. I was actually very unexperience with even using an airbrush at the time, and the shading on this kit rivals what I can do to this day.

It's much simpler than an HMM of course, but there was still a wealth of detail to hand paint, and lots of great armor parts to airbrush. I honestly can't remember what insprired me to do this paint scheme, but I like it a lot more than the original to be honest.

It's unfortunatly missing a few pieces - the small vents on the forearm on each side - but those were gone whenever I first picked up the kit to paint. Looking back, the plastic on this kit (being an older hasbro model) is actually a bit unusual. It's very soft, almost to the point where it feel's malleable. That's not a bad thing however - it actually makes it feel sturdier after assembly than other kits.

Below is a full photo gallery of the kit:

 

HMM Dark Horn Harry Special Custom - Red Horn

Here's a gallery of my HMM Dark Horn Harry Special, that I customized into a Red Horn. I must say that of all my kits I've painted I'm most proud of this one, it just holds a special place in my heart for some reason or other. It's a bit dusty in the pics below, as it seems that I couldn't find my original picture of it and I had to retake them. It's been sitting on a shelf for over a year, so I got as much dust of as I easily could, but of course some still remained.

The kit itself is a fun build, but very challenging at times. The feet were extremely difficult to get together, and took a lot of patience, and assembling the three sections of the main body together was quite a task as well. Once you get it all together though it is a great model to display, and one of my favorite ones to see on a shelf.

Do be warned however, that this kit, more so that almost any other Zoids kit, needs paint to bring out it's full beauty. Unpainted, the gold parts are very marbled, and look pretty bland once put together. If nothing else, I would strongly advise painting the gold pieces just to get a solid gold look to it.