The Energon Pub

Tankor actually. Mazer will be based on Energon Mirage.

Iskander wrote:

Josh wrote:speaking of completed stuff
how close to this guy is done?
he looks pretty dam near done to me

From what he said me the one in the pic is not done, I'll ask him again though.

Hey Josh, talked to Deszaras X, and he told me Landbreaker is 95% finished in the pics we have, he's just missing some small details but the general look is there. So, I suppose you can use those pics as reference if you want.

Gryph wrote:First sketch of Panzer. Not very detailed except for the head. That was mainly what I was focusing on. Took me forever to make a head I liked. I went through ass loads. Also had a little problem with hand placement. I don't wan to drop the pincer hands on the end of the arms because they make part of the front of the tank. They would get in the way of the rifle, so I'm moving it to the side of the arm.

I would like some opinions on one thing though. Should the head should be a little smaller?

Pretty cool Gryph, I think the head looks very good too, and the size is right IMO.

Gryph wrote:First sketch of Panzer. Not very detailed except for the head. That was mainly what I was focusing on. Took me forever to make a head I liked. I went through ass loads. Also had a little problem with hand placement. I don't wan to drop the pincer hands on the end of the arms because they make part of the front of the tank. They would get in the way of the rifle, so I'm moving it to the side of the arm.

I would like some opinions on one thing though. Should the head should be a little smaller?

This guy makes me think of an old blaster design i came up with back when TFmaster first posted his energon Soundwave.

It was Tankor with a modified head and the cannon replaced with signal flares weapon. I was going to replace part of the torso with that of armada demolishers and replace the minicon swindles head with that of minicon breakdown (I think that was thename of demolishers partner) any way the purpose of all ofthat was so in vehicl mode the front of the tank would fold out (same Idea you had with the claws) and the arm pannels (intended to be painted like g1 blasters tape deck) would fold back and you could launch the minicon from there.

Now I could never attempt this cause I never had Tankor nor was or am willing to pay 30 bucks for him now in the universe line. So anyone who wants the idea can have it.

but back on subject, I'm liking the new head. Will the missle launchers on his back rotate forward when in vehicale mode?

Hey Gryph, just found a junked Tankor in a local auction site, it's missing the whole cannon/backpack thing; it seems the Panzer design doesn't need that part, so I'd be able to make the kitbash.

Let me know as soon as possible because the auction ends later today.

ok thats it.. Ive cancelled the Igor project since I really didnt had any inspiration left for it at the time plus I couldnt find the parts I could need.
Can it! I say !

Meet Lockdown!
Only worked on him for a day and I think he's coming along nicely imo.
Yah before you ask.. I had a seeker fetish so a spare seeker wasnt a problem

This is how the altmode is going to look somewhat, a cybertronian tank.
Guns will be added later on, thinking on using RID magnus his bigass pulp creator for that


Botmode, obviously. Legs will be altered as well as the chest.
The canon will swing over his back in some way for a full frontal assault.
Maybe I'll add articulation to the legs too.. but we'll see.

Iskander wrote:Hey Gryph, just found a junked Tankor in a local auction site, it's missing the whole cannon/backpack thing; it seems the Panzer design doesn't need that part, so I'd be able to make the kitbash.

Let me know as soon as possible because the auction ends later today.

Hey, that would be great!!

pepie wrote:ok thats it.. Ive cancelled the Igor project since I really didnt had any inspiration left for it at the time plus I couldnt find the parts I could need.
Can it! I say !

Meet Lockdown!
Only worked on him for a day and I think he's coming along nicely imo.
Yah before you ask.. I had a seeker fetish so a spare seeker wasnt a problem

This is how the altmode is going to look somewhat, a cybertronian tank.
Guns will be added later on, thinking on using RID magnus his bigass pulp creator for that


Botmode, obviously. Legs will be altered as well as the chest.
The canon will swing over his back in some way for a full frontal assault.
Maybe I'll add articulation to the legs too.. but we'll see.

Iskander wrote:Hey Gryph, just found a junked Tankor in a local auction site, it's missing the whole cannon/backpack thing; it seems the Panzer design doesn't need that part, so I'd be able to make the kitbash.

Let me know as soon as possible because the auction ends later today.

Hey, that would be great!!

That looks pretty sweet there Pepie I like it.

For the Igor if you ever get back to it, i would recommend using two turrets from the space ship half of omega supreme if you can find the knockoff and mount them to shere the wheels were on rodimuses sholders and mount two of the smallerones off Sharticon omn the sides of the blue piece of his torso. They could both rotat forward in vehicle mode and fold out to face forward in robot mode.

For this one i imagine it's a bit late but would the fold out cannons that come with the seeker still fit in vehicle mode? I think it might look neat if the were folded out in vehicle mode and pointing out from beneath the tank mode. then you could paint the little nobs on the mid torso to look like small range missles like on the heavyarms gundam from Gundam wing. Just throwing out ideas.

Hey Pepie, whose legs were you using for Igor? I can't seem to recognize them, and they're way better than the Armada Demolisher legs I was going to end up using.

I liked Igor Pepie, hope you finish him at a later time, I must say though that Lockdown looks pretty cool too .

flamingdeth wrote:Hey Pepie, whose legs were you using for Igor? I can't seem to recognize them, and they're way better than the Armada Demolisher legs I was going to end up using.

Those were the legs of an Armada Hoist flamingdeth.

Ack! Hopefully it's not too late. >_<

That Tankor would work. He's got a turret, but it's going to look completely different. Along with having the barrel in the middle, the barrel needs to come off and attach to the arms.

Gryph wrote:Ack! Hopefully it's not too late. >_<

That Tankor would work. He's got a turret, but it's going to look completely different. Along with having the barrel in the middle, the barrel needs to come off and attach to the arms.

No prob, it's not too late.

I'll let you know you when I get the figure.

Awesome! ^_^

I'll try and figure out a color scheme now. I'm thinking blue and grey. What do you think?

Gryph wrote:Awsome! ^_^

I'll try and figure out a color scheme now. I'm thinking blue and grey. What do you think?

mmm...don't know about the blue, grey and blue would make him look even more Tankor-ish IMO, take a look at Speedbuggy's repaint: http://www.tfmaster.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2003

That said I'd like to keep most of the light grey and black parts, how about dark green as a third color?, the Panzer name makes me think of german WWII tanks, and at least to me green is kinda the default color for those tanks, though I'm open to other suggestions .

Hey thnx everyone! I'm gonna work on him again, tomorrow.
Igor will survive somehow though, maybe for wave 2 or something Thanks for the tips!

Typical! I get everything ready for some great photos and the battery dies in my camera.

Ah well - here's a 'laid on the scanner' job until I can take some decent pics for the completed work thread tomorrow. Excuse the massive light flares all over her extra glossy skin

BTW hope you're pleased with the stickers Iskander!

Nice fig, FH, and a great paintjob too - really suits her. Looks like the stickers worked out well - although partially because neither of my printers seems to be working, I may have to just paint my Reformation logos on.

I'm also looking forward to seeing Lockdown finished, Pepie! He looks like he's got a lot of potential - even if he does have A-Scavenger's arms (yuk!)...

FH, that looks great! Hope that your batteries are useable soon.
Nah tell me.. what did you use for parts?? I cant figure it out
Those decals look kickass !

Ramrider wrote:I'm also looking forward to seeing Lockdown finished, Pepie! He looks like he's got a lot of potential - even if he does have A-Scavenger's arms (yuk!)...

Hey scavanger himself sucks bigtime, but at least I finally got a use for him
They make a figure bulky, and I like that.
Let him crush those pesky rebels with his bare hands! Why use guns

Shuriken came out great FH, and I'm glad the decals worked.

Great to hear Igor has come back to life Pepie, just an idea but maybe he can work as a trailer for Lockdown.

Actually BM Tankor is mostly grey and black, with some orange and white. Universe Tankor is mostly green and yellow. I picked blue because it wasn't a previous Tankor color.

pepie wrote:FH, that looks great! Hope that your batteries are useable soon.
Nah tell me.. what did you use for parts?? I cant figure it out
Those decals look kickass !

She's basically just Solitaire and lots of styrene and modelling putty- the simple ideas are so often the best http://www.tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/So ... itaire.htm

Gryph wrote:Actually BM Tankor is mostly grey and black, with some orange and white. Universe Tankor is mostly green and yellow. I picked blue because it wasn't a previous Tankor color.

Yeah, but Tankor had a lot of blue in the BM TV show, that's why Speedbuggy gave him that color.

fourth_heir wrote:

pepie wrote:FH, that looks great! Hope that your batteries are useable soon.
Nah tell me.. what did you use for parts?? I cant figure it out
Those decals look kickass !

She's basically just Solitaire and lots of styrene and modelling putty- the simple ideas are so often the best http://www.tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/So ... itaire.htm

Ah I see!! Thanks!
Any luck with the camera ?

Hey Gryph, some ideas for Panzer:

1. Lets not decide yet on the color scheme, until we have more of a definitive design.

2. How about using the rear of the Tankor tank as the front of Panzer, we can move the turret a litle more to the center of the body too. It'd give him an old World War I tank look.

3. For the new cannon, I have a great missile launcher, that has a machine gun look, with the missiles it's almost as long as the original Tankor cannon, it came with a KO GI Joe Extreme Lt. Stone (http://www.yojoe.com/action/other/extreme/stone/), but it's of the colors in this attached pic. A neat feature, is that the missiles are launched rotating the grey piece in the rear of the launcher.

Mmmm looking good, I like Pepie's Lockdown alot:)

Shuriken also looks interesting:D
Keep it up guys, I can't do stuff til' past AprilXP

Like the ideas for Panzer. The gun rocks. It'll go a long way in making it not look like Tankor.

I'm not completely sure if you noticed or not, but he's got a small gun turret on each limb. They're in the middle of the treads. Don't worry about making them turn. Just as long as they're there.

Gryph wrote:Like the ideas for Panzer. The gun rocks. It'll go a long way in making it not look like Tankor.

I'm not completely sure if you noticed or not, but he's got a small gun turret on each limb. They're in the middle of the treads. Don't worry about making them turn. Just as long as they're there.

I had noticed the little turrets Gryph, and I'm pretty sure I can mount the on ball joint so they'll be able to turn

Some things I'd like to see in more detail are those thingies over his shoulders (see attached pic), I think they are missile launchers aren't they? or are just parts of the turret/backpack? mostly I'd like to see how do they look in alt mode.