Electronic paint job

A digital paint job is a technology in the Animated continuity.

Useful for infiltration and espionage, a digital paint job is a technological innovation that allows a Transformer to alter their coloration as circumstances dictate. As such, it is popular with fugitives and Decepticons.

Fiction

Animated cartoon

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Wasp utilized a digital paint job when he infiltrated the Autobot base in Detroit and switched places with Bumblebee. This allowed him to work quickly, and easily make his escape once the ruse was discovered. Where Is Thy Sting?

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Shockwave later revealed that his coloration while posing as Longarm Prime was a digital paint job, hiding his true (purple) colors during his extended infiltration of the Autobot ranks. This Is Why I Hate Machines