- August 9th, 2014, 12:51 am#4804605
Okay, I don't have a TON of pics of this but as I mentioned her partly in my introduction post I thought my first post here in the main threads would be of my Trandmasters Ecto-1.
Last week I finally managed to find ALL the parts to my Extreme Ghostbusters Ecto and even though I had her since she was new she was a bit roughed up, though for a toy I hadn't really taken great care of in over 15 years, she has relatively little damage. Once I got all the parts I too her apart and used some scouring powder to clean the body and then washed it entirely. I had to remove the old decals but that was okay, they weren't my thing anyway. I dusted her and ordered some new decals from Stickerfixer here:
http://www.stickerfixer.com/symbols/0001.php
They are clear backed and cut really close to the shape f the symbol. It's the same company that does Reprolabels for Transformers and they are very good. I bought two of the "small" sets for my car.
I reassembled her and once the stickers arrived I put them back on and here she is:
I didn't customize her much past the decals yet. I want to find a single piece molded engine block, something really simple to put in there under the hood and I also want to find something appropriate to replace the odd "missiles" for the top of the racks and at some point I need to get an airbrush ready and carefully mask and touch up some of the silver painted trim here and there on the body but mostly I wanted this toy to look "stock" rather than highly customized. That's my usual style. If you can't tell I did anything to it, then I did my job well, lol.
Anyway, I hope you guys like it.
Last week I finally managed to find ALL the parts to my Extreme Ghostbusters Ecto and even though I had her since she was new she was a bit roughed up, though for a toy I hadn't really taken great care of in over 15 years, she has relatively little damage. Once I got all the parts I too her apart and used some scouring powder to clean the body and then washed it entirely. I had to remove the old decals but that was okay, they weren't my thing anyway. I dusted her and ordered some new decals from Stickerfixer here:
http://www.stickerfixer.com/symbols/0001.php
They are clear backed and cut really close to the shape f the symbol. It's the same company that does Reprolabels for Transformers and they are very good. I bought two of the "small" sets for my car.
I reassembled her and once the stickers arrived I put them back on and here she is:
I didn't customize her much past the decals yet. I want to find a single piece molded engine block, something really simple to put in there under the hood and I also want to find something appropriate to replace the odd "missiles" for the top of the racks and at some point I need to get an airbrush ready and carefully mask and touch up some of the silver painted trim here and there on the body but mostly I wanted this toy to look "stock" rather than highly customized. That's my usual style. If you can't tell I did anything to it, then I did my job well, lol.
Anyway, I hope you guys like it.
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