u/Galaxy_Dive

Some of the recent posts inspired me to fiddle with my Gaoranger SMP. They’ve been on my shelf in their base configurations forever now.

The ability to swap stuff around like this is one of Gao’s stronger appeals, and this does kind of push me a bit more to wanting to grab a dupe or two with the reissues. I think that’s going to mostly depend on the pricing. But the other thing that’s always been a bit of a nagging issue for me with wanting to customize power animals is, whether you are abiding by the official list of 100 power animals or just doing your own thing, a good handful of the components are kind of inflexible for kitbashing.

Gaoranger already has one less pair of legs than it does torso + arms (even if you’re going with centaurus, lion’s still in two places at once) and while bison and rhino are really unique designs for legs, the problem then becomes that you’re pretty damn limited with what you can turn them into lol.

Finally finished my Time Shadow. Well. Mostly. No TimeRobo Shadow yet; the Pro Divider’s orange plastic is to match the DX toy. I’m going to paint mine yellow to match the show prop and may well paint the helmets to do the same.

And here’s my painted Pladelu Saber. I do like this more than Laser, but it needed more paint (including more detailing). Some minor sticker use again - I cut out the wing stickers, the purple on those is surrounded by steel (which the DX is colored, but the series and suit are more silver. The silver canopy details are also freehanded on.

In addition to the purple plastic, the chest plate swap was white plastic.

I got in the Pladelu Saber & Laser set, though so far have only painted Laser.

I’m unfortunately not that impressed. Hopefully the Pladelu line will continue to improve, but these aux don’t really seem too much better than the nerfed minipla.

Aside from the head/emogear, all of Saber’s parts are magenta plastic. So all the blue and black (plus details) are painted. Since the solar panels aren’t molded on, I also used those stickers.

And unlike the Cosmo Gavarion itself, which has a transforming head with a pretty beautifully pre-painted face, these don’t transform. The emogear is just a white chunk, hollow in back, with stickers for the emogear eyes. The robot head is two pieces, but the only thing painted is the magenta disc in the middle and the other details are left colorless.

Beyond that, for some reason they chose a moving hinge to attach the chestplate pieces of the solar panels, even though I don’t think those sections of Laser ever fold etc, so it’s basically just asking for trouble if you transform it too often.

Following Cereberios, I decided to paint my Orion Battler. This wound up 95% painted - I was too lazy to do the stripes down the middle with those stickers still holding up really well at the moment. But overall, it feels like a big improvement between the combination of gold paint over the dull mustard and replacing a bunch of stickers that wrapped over molded, non-flat surfaces (numerous of which were starting to peel).

There were a few details added - the white space is now properly there between the gold and the red in the middle of the chest (instead of being gold plastic) and the bottom portion of the star-shaped hammer is now gold instead of blue. I also opted to paint the tank treads a darker color to better match the appearance of the show suit.

Also included some bonus pics of Orion Voyager on RyuteiOh.

Like at least a couple other people around here, my Cerberios has spent most of its time on my shelf without its secondary heads, to instead display the three other voyager (and Kojishi used as an arm) not on KyurenOh and RyuteiOh. I’m in the process of rearranging my collection and, since I now have a fully painted (and lightly modified) set of the initial 11 voyagers, I decided to take my original SP Kyuranger set and display it as Kyutamajin. This basically freed up my Cerberios, which I decided to paint and then put back together in its intended configuration with the now extra SP Voyager bodies.

Besides the silver adding a lot of pop like normal, Ceberios is also more sticker-dependant than KyurenOh (as its turquoise thigh inserts and knee frames used stickers, as well as the silver on the inner shoulders). My super metallic red Dspiae marker was a pretty close match for the intended sort of wine red found on Cerberios’ face and I had an Arrtx marker that was a really close match for the turquoise plastic.

With the exception of Kajiki, which I used the SP since my painted one has the gigantic sword, I used my recently painted Chameleon, Oushi, and Hebi for these pics to better match, but it’s gone on the shelf with the stickered SP Voyager bodies. Since the SP kyutama are being used for KyurenOh, I did paint an extra Oushi and Hebi kyutama I had leftover from kitbashes to use with this.