{"id":19605,"date":"2015-01-30T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=19605"},"modified":"2015-01-30T17:30:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:30:59","slug":"custom-painted-halo-mega-bloks-drone-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=19605","title":{"rendered":"Custom painted Halo Mega Bloks Drone figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might have seen just a few days ago, I reviewed the Halo Mega Bloks Covenant Drone set. This set includes the first ever produced by Mega Bloks, Covenant Drone (Yanme&#8217;e) minifigure.<\/p>\n<p>While I like the figure a lot, I really wanted some more detail to it. So I took it upon myself to do just that.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First, here&#8217;s a pic of the in-game Drone:<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drone_H3_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19603\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drone_H3_sm-600x370.jpg\" alt=\"Drone_H3_sm\" width=\"584\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drone_H3_sm-600x370.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drone_H3_sm-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drone_H3_sm-486x300.jpg 486w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drone_H3_sm.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next the figure as it was originally in the set:<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Drone-Outbreak-minifig-drone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19568\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Drone-Outbreak-minifig-drone-600x153.jpg\" alt=\"MB Drone Outbreak minifig drone\" width=\"584\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Drone-Outbreak-minifig-drone-600x153.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Drone-Outbreak-minifig-drone-300x76.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Drone-Outbreak-minifig-drone-500x127.jpg 500w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-Drone-Outbreak-minifig-drone.jpg 1584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And my final custom paint job to it:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Revised-Drone-w-insert-HFFL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19604\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Revised-Drone-w-insert-HFFL-600x456.jpg\" alt=\"Revised Drone w-insert HFFL\" width=\"584\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Revised-Drone-w-insert-HFFL-600x456.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Revised-Drone-w-insert-HFFL-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Revised-Drone-w-insert-HFFL-394x300.jpg 394w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Revised-Drone-w-insert-HFFL.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think you can see for yourself, it&#8217;s a big improvement over the stock Mega Brands figure.<\/p>\n<p>For the black lines I used a paint pen. The cyan on the top tan wings was with a tiny paint brush and the purple was applied as a diluted wash of paint over the wings to keep the transparency, as you can see by the insert pic.<\/p>\n<p>I think it turned out pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>What do you folks think?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>-Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might have seen just a few days ago, I reviewed the Halo Mega Bloks Covenant Drone set. This set includes the first ever produced by Mega Bloks, Covenant Drone (Yanme&#8217;e) minifigure. While I like the figure a lot, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=19605\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19607,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19605\/revisions\/19607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}