The Energon Pub

News Credits: 6 · by **Jones** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 4:08 pm

This guy needed some serious work. Way too bland. But now… fixed! I’m VERY happy with this figure now.

Original deco (pics respectfully borrowed from the galleries here at http://seibertron.com):

Here’s the list of things I did:

Metallic silver paint on all guns
Slid off his handguards and tucked them in the opening on his back
Dark metallic grey accents on bot and vehicle (including beard)
Black/Khaki Drab camo pattern
Army green on wheel rims
Red/copper tail lights
Fully sprayed with matte clear coat
Reprolabels Autobot logos on bot mode and vehicle

More pics:

Here you can see where I stored his (ugly) handguards. looks way better without these things.

More more pics:

Thanks for looking. Cheers!

News Credits: 9 · by **Hip-Hoptimus Rime** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:54 am

Beautiful work! Did you use flat black on the tires? They look great.

I like how you hid the hand panels in the hollow of his back. I too removed them, but I keep them jammed in behind his shoulders. Out of the way, but not screen accurate. I like your idea, but I use the wheels on his back to clamp his big rifle in place vertically for storage. What to do...?

News Credits: 6 · by **Jones** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:06 am

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:Beautiful work! Did you use flat black on the tires? They look great.

Thanks! The tires are actually just the plain black plastic with the Testors Dullcoat sprayed on them. I usually do a flat black on the tires, but in this instance, I didn't have to because I just matte coated the whole thing. ;)^

News Credits: 6 · by **RotorstormNZ** » Sun Oct 05, 2014 2:47 pm

Great work! That camo scheme really suits him, and the painted weapons really add to him. Congrats on an excellent job that really does improve a bland toy.