G1 KICKBACK: '85 Insecticon Transformers Restoration, Antenna & Chrome Wings - Retro Fix Restoration
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2023
- This time on Mr. BŌbot, we'll re-chrome grasshopper wings, create a new resin antenna, and fix a few original stickers on a G1 Transformers Insecticon KICKBACK toy from 1985.
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FROGTAPE Delicate Surface Painter's Tape
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Createx Opaque Airbrush Color, White, 2oz.
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Gaahleri Airbrush Kit
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Molotow Liquid Chrome Marker Set
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Molotow Liquid Chrome Alcohol-Based Refill
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I'd like to give a special shout out to one of our biggest fans for all their support! That would be our friend Crasher! Please check out her cool UA-cam channel here: www.youtube.com/@Crasher1982/videos
Thank you, Mr Bobot and Mike! We started our channels at around the same time, so followed your channel for like ever, and you're so talented you could get paid for repairs and restorations imo. You are indeed "not too shabby"! 😁
@@Crasher1982 Thank you very much for all your support! It's much appreciated... :)
@@MisterBobot YW :)
Fantastic guys another amazing restoration of my favourite Insecticon.
Thank you Simon! Kickback was my first Insecticon back in 1985! :)
Great work as always!!! You're definitely the Molotow king, I don't know anyone who can get such a smooth finish as you with those pens 👍
Thank you Dave! TBH, It took a while and a lot of frustration to really learn those pens. There are so many caveats to using them, but worth it, IMO. Thanks again! :)
Awesome fix.
Thanks! :)
I remember playing with insecticons as a kid. (Dinobots like Swoop, too.) That was the extent of my TF's exposure, though.
Nice, Snarl was my first Dinobot! :)
@@MisterBobot I never had one, but a dood in grade 1 or something did.
Very cool video! 🦗
Thank you!
Hey, congrats on reaching 500 subs! Proud of you! 🥰
Thank you Crasher!!! :)
@@MisterBobot YW :)
@@MisterBobot You're awesome! :) Both of you ;)
@@Crasher1982 😁
@@MisterBobot 🙂
That's an incredible restoration.
I was wondering if a consumer grade kitchen vacuum sealer can pull enough of a vacuum to get air bubbles out of the resin during casting?
I do love the Bondic, but it is rather pricey. Recently I've just bought a generic bottle of UV resin, and used that to refill the Bondic applicator, and it works just as well as far as I can tell.
I would like to see how you might approach repairing a G1 Jetfire that has a broken tail piece where the hinge pin goes, as well as a broken plastic for where the large metal hinge piece attaches to. I'm thinking of perhaps finding some styrene tubes with a similar inner diameter as the pins and somehow attaching to the broken parts, but wanted to see if you have some additional thoughts.
Hey! Thanks for the watch and comment! Yes, I've seen people use vacuums to get rid of the air bubbles but it's usually on bigger projects. I would really like to do a G1 Jetfire! Your styrene tubes sounds good... or some type of thin rod or nail might work.
Molotov Chrome Pen?
I used them too. Always looks good!
Yes, I like to use the Molotov pens and in my airbrush! They always do a great job.... :)
Cool video as always man!
But I got a question, maybe I'm missing the obvious, but with Kickback's head/antenna, why didn't you just split his head open and just play with the antennas as is?
Or is that the reason?
Meaning a bigger piece to play with versus a bunch of small pieces of fiddle with.
I'm just asking because I know that you can split the head apart. But a little pressure on the mushroom tab, and the head just springs apart. Basically it's just held together with friction.
The thing I would have liked to seen is you doing a repair on his chest piece because besides one of the antennas being broken, one of the common things to see wrong with him is that he's got a broken chess piece. So out of love to see how you would have gone at something like that!
But anyway man as always, cool video!
Hey! Thanks for the comment! Lol, yep, trust me I tried to split the head. But for some reason it just wouldn't split for me. I almost started to break it! If you ever run across one w/ a broken chest piece, send it my way, I'd really like to give that a try. Thanks! :)
I painted the eyes red on mine, to match the ones in the cartoon.
Very cool! Would like to see it... :)
@@MisterBobot A steady hand and a thin tip paint brush make all the difference.
For the yellow antenna did you use an airbrush? Hand painting with a brush kind of a pain because of the brush strokes, even doing few little coats but it gets worn-out in certain areas.
I prefer going for an Airbrush.
Yes, I used the airbrush for the yellow antenna. I just used the paint brush for testing the color match.
How did you remove the chrome what did you use?
I used LA's Totally Awesome Cleaner, which you can find here: amzn.to/4cKoDcT