The Energon Pub

REFORMATTING...........HAS BEGUN

Awesome! Looks GREAT! All that room to grow.

Lava lamp!


Devy! Get off the phone, MAN!

Picked up a couple new RID15 figures. Warrior class Thunderhoof and Quillfire. Both these guys are really cool and come with neat weapons.


QFire really takes the cake for me. He is a short little stubby beastie with great posability. He has bicep and thigh swivels and even a little bit of a neck swivel. He is just dripping with personality, partially due to his maw. Transformation is fun and more involved than I would have expected, but very intuitive. He has shiny paint apps in all the right places. Both weapons tuck away nice and neatly in alt mode. Love that sweet metallic fleck revolver he comes with. My favorite part is how he feels in hand. He has that nice smooth kinda soft to the touch dense plastic that is just a joy to handle. Very reminiscent of the Prime figures.

THoofer, fuhgeddaboudit! Overall not quite as impressive as I thought he would be (I think my expectations were set too high); a little small and thin for the character. Probably would make a better voyager sized figure. None the less a cool figure with a crazy amount of folding happening during transformation. He ends up tiny in alt mode; more like a lawn tractor. The transformation is really good and fairly involved (had me scratching my head for a bit), but posabilty is a bit limited on this one. A lot of the problems coming from his shoulders and his antlers getting in the way. THoof can store his gun on his back and under the vehicle mode in slots that don't show up until he's been transformed.

Both figures are worthy of of your RID collection and some of the best in the line. Both are fun to transform and play with and generally just satisfying. I will say that Quillfire is the stronger of the two and just a cool Transformer to own, even if you don't collect RID.

More room, new figures, sounds like someone will be filling some space

Nice write ups on the bots!

THoof is mistransformed. His antlers angle up in robot mode.

itscramtastic wrote:More room, new figures, sounds like someone will be filling some space

Of course, but as of right now I will be spreading things out and re-arranging. It's a big project and I'm taking my time.

Nice write ups on the bots!

Thanks. I wanted to take more pics, but it was late and I was getting incoherent(er).

The7thParallel wrote:THoof is mistransformed. His antlers angle up in robot mode.

So they do, I was wondering what those rivets were for. Good to know, thanks for pointing that out. That should help with articulation

Also, welcome to the boards and my neck of the woods.

carytheone wrote:

This is my favorite right here

carytheone wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:THoof is mistransformed. His antlers angle up in robot mode.

So they do, I was wondering what those rivets were for. Good to know, thanks for pointing that out. That should help with articulation

I TF'd my Thunderhoof 3 or 4 times before I realized his antlers were supposed to move

Well I guess I'm not as tired of mold re-use as I thought or maybe I'm just tire of CW

Anyways, I picked up Pipa Smurf this week, love that mold. Here are some celleo pics I took and posted here and there.

Heavy use of a built in filter

Work it girl

I make this mold look good!

Maybe not...


CHICKEN FIGHT!


Well enough of that harsh lighting. I rigged up a way to use my diffuser again. I also found that I can bounce a little light off of it as well, bonus!


Piper is my fav with Huffington being a close second. Well I already had all the gear hooked up, so why not get serious?

They are definitely a fun little duo! I enjoy both of them

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:They are definitely a fun little duo! I enjoy both of them

Don't you mean quartet?

Oh, hey I figured something out with opening the images in a new tab. So if you have a browser that allows you to open an image in a new tab (and why wouldn't you, I mean who uses IE? amiright?) you will be sent to the full resolution version instead of the lame photobucket view. Give it a whirl and let me know what cha think?

I didn't do the cell phone pics if you wanna see the difference. Or if it's working correctly on your side.

carytheone wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:They are definitely a fun little duo! I enjoy both of them

Don't you mean quartet?

Oh, hey I figured something out with opening the images in a new tab. So if you have a browser that allows you to open an image in a new tab (and why wouldn't you, I mean who uses IE? amiright?) you will be sent to the full resolution version instead of the lame photobucket view. Give it a whirl and let me know what cha think?

I didn't do the cell phone pics if you wanna see the difference. Or if it's working correctly on your side.

Well, i lack Nemesis and my Prime only exists to command Metroplex, but I get your drift

And my browser does that too!

Great fun and stuff Cary, your crazy TF

I don't really see a difference between your post and a new tab. But when your pics look that good, it doesn't really matter. The diffuser set up looks, well, BALLER! Judging by the shots it seems to be working pretty well too.

Glad you are using your extra day off to play!

Cobotron wrote:I don't really see a difference between your post and a new tab. But when your pics look that good, it doesn't really matter. The diffuser set up looks, well, BALLER! Judging by the shots it seems to be working pretty well too.

Glad you are using your extra day off to play!

If I had time, space and willingness, I'd try setting an actual set-up up. Alas, I rely on weird lights, natural lighting and makeshift backgrounds until the bedroom is sorted out. Need to find my camera in time for Victorion though.

Cary, I am still annoyed at you for your pretty pictures. Let it be known.

V, your natural light photos always turn out really nice.

@Logan y Cobo - tanks

Dr Va'al wrote:If I had time, space and willingness, I'd try setting an actual set-up up

Are you implying that cardboard boxes, desk lamps, poster board and clothespins are not an "actual set-up"

Pappy always said: "a poor carpenter blames his tools"

Cary, I am still annoyed at you for your pretty pictures. Let it be known.

I aim to please

Cobotron wrote:V, your natural light photos always turn out really nice.

I'll second that

I should experiment with natural lighting, the cave has an entire wall of windows



I just keep forgetting about 'em.

carytheone wrote:@Logan y Cobo - tanks

Dr Va'al wrote:If I had time, space and willingness, I'd try setting an actual set-up up

Are you implying that cardboard boxes, desk lamps, poster board and clothespins are not an "actual set-up"

Pappy always said: "a poor carpenter blames his tools"

I meant the opposite! Yours is an actual set-up compared to the no set-up I have!
My set-up is the wall and the camera phone. Sometimes a sheet of paper, or a lamp.

Cary, I am still annoyed at you for your pretty pictures. Let it be known.

I aim to please

Cobotron wrote:V, your natural light photos always turn out really nice.

I'll second that

Aw shucks you guise.

I should experiment with natural lighting, the cave has an entire wall of windows



I just keep forgetting about 'em.

YES do the thing! Do it natural! Burn-style (no pants)!

Dr Va'al wrote:Alas, I rely on weird lights, natural lighting and makeshift backgrounds until the bedroom is sorted out.

Cary, I am still annoyed at you for your pretty pictures. Let it be known.

Natural lighting is my friend. That's how my bots come out looking presentable.

Pics look great Cary!

carytheone wrote:

Which Optimus is that up there with the other Prime toys?

And here is me experimenting with natural light:



Its really hard to keep it just on the toys and not flooding the background.

william-james88 wrote:

carytheone wrote:
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Which Optimus is that up there with the other Prime toys?

Why FE of course. Dig back a few pages and I have some rushed blurry cellio pics.

And here is me experimenting with natural light:

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Its really hard to keep it just on the toys and not flooding the background.

Lighting can make or break a photo and is the biggest challenge I face.

Here's one that came out way better using just natural light:

Va'al inspired my subjects for today.

Expect a little more of Steve later.

I love a little Countach in the morning!

I forgot how awesome MP Sideswipe is. I would really love the OG candy apple red version.

He's back!

I know that in Prime the Vehicons were just cannon fodder, but there really were scary sparkless death machines.

carytheone wrote:I love a little Countach in the morning!

Does that sound a little dirty, or am I just a shckum bag?

I love Steve's Cadillac inspired alt mode.
The light blue background is loverly. Dat new?

Cobotron wrote:

carytheone wrote:I love a little Countach in the morning!

Does that sound a little dirty, or am I just a shckum bag?

Nope, just picking up the filth I'm laying down.

I love Steve's Cadillac inspired alt mode.
The light blue background is loverly. Dat new?

Nope, I've had it for a while but it normally over exposes and looks white. I've been hesitant to use it because it blows out my pics. My current setup give me way more flexible lighting and I'm starting to understand how to use F stops.

Edit: it is lovely, thanks