>>10997339I disagree, it's a lot easier doing gradients with clear paint. You can let it just 'wash' and do fewer go-overs, and then you can clean it up later with water or alcohol (this one's using both). it worked a treat on the yellow tigatron, that one came out way better. (it also worked on this tigatron, evening out his shitty half-assed orange paint that Hasbro put on it. it actually ended up looking nice and pretty natural)
buuut there are a lot of blobby parts around the face, I'm STILL cleaning some of that up. but alcohol does still work for removing some even on the water-based stuff. I just really really should have held out for smoke-colored paint. i think it might exist. Oh well.
and when it comes to "I already put work into customizing this, but it is now obsolete, so I want to keep the extant pattern" you can't avoid clear paint. Next project will be painting my custom Dinobot in.... maybe clear green? I'm open to suggestions. but I feel like green on top of that brown will look pretty good and 'dinosaury'. and then maybe red over his metallic blue parts, make a nice poiple.. silver over the gold parts.. it should work.