The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:40 pm

So far I've only digi painted Air Raid from Treadshot and Skydive from Terradive.

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:01 pm

Fire Flight

Slingshot

Silverbolt

Superion

Website · by **Skullgrin140** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:33 pm

This looks promising

by **Ramrider** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:30 pm

It does indeed - although personally I'd recommend that you try swapping Slingshot and Skydive. Slingshot far better suits a slower jet, and Skydive specialises in high-performance aerobatics, so I reckon the Treadshot mould would fit him better.

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:26 am

Thanks for the suggestion Ramrider however to be honest I don't think that jet would look good in grey. I'm sure that an expert in aerial acrobatics would quikly come to understand the kinds of things that the A10 is capable of. I saw one at an air show when I was a kid and it pulled of some really amazing moves. In fact that is going to be the story behind these. Optimus is told of how Megatron is reviving his combiners so Optimus uses the matrix to bring back the Aerialbots (who we all know were destroyed in the nuclear explosion in the Transformers Generation one volume 1.) He takes their sparks to an air show to pick out new forms after the appropriate new forms are selected the sparks enhabit their new forms and Optimus uses the matrix to unlock their new forms transformation abilities. They then immediately combine into Superion to check out their returned combiner form.

Here is his new head which I finished just the yesterday.

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:27 am

Photobucket is undergoing maintenance right now so here's a link to my post over on tfans.
http://www.tfans.com/talk/index.php?sho ... getnewpost

by **RavageX-9** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:42 am

[quote="RodimusVTS"]Photobucket is undergoing maintenance right now so here's a link to my post over on tfans.
http://www.tfans.com/talk/index.php?sho ... getnewpost

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:03 am

Hmm my bad I didn't realize that. Anyways PB is up and running again so here's the pic.

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:54 am

I think I finally have the hang of taking some good pics. Anyways here's a new one of his head and what the Aerialbots look like as Superion now that their new paint jobs are almost done.

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/RodimusVTS/Superionheadcloseup.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/RodimusVTS/Superionprenewhands.jpg[/img]

by **Ninjagazz** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:05 am

Ooooo nice!

by **Lord_Loqi** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:30 am

That does look nice. I wasn't carring that much for the digipaint, but the actual paint job came out wonderfully. Love the new head too.

Any chance of rigging a set of actual hands on him as opposed to the sallad tongs he comes with.

News Credits: 4 · by **MacrossFA19** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:03 am

I like it. But my favorite part has definatly got be the new head.

Any chance of doing something with the blue hands and feet parts? They just seem out of place to me.

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:25 am

[quote="Lord_Loqi"]That does look nice. I wasn't carring that much for the digipaint, but the actual paint job came out wonderfully. Love the new head too.

Any chance of rigging a set of actual hands on him as opposed to the sallad tongs he comes with.

by **saberwolf** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:32 am

just my two cents on the matter.

it might look better design aethetics and bodyily proportions wise if the 2 A10 warthogs served as the limbs but with the back kibble being set up on a removeable and replaceable extra extra thick paperclip piece, theirby making it possible for the backpack kibble to be mounted on the aten warthog figures lower arms and in doing so give the upper arms additional bulk for the combiner form in addition to a set of fully functional duel jointed elbows woth the paper clip securing the bakc pack in place for vehicle and robot mode. just make sure you leave one end of the paperclip curving out past the hole to insure easy grip and removal of it

as for giving the warthogs a more realistic set of hands i figure you can find a good pair to work with from one of those alternator figures

as for modding alternator hands if you have the extra parts justs salvage a set of tech jet wings from one of those universe dollar genmeral superion maximus fighter jets sand the wing kibble of the sides of the tube which the energon bombs peg into and superglu it to the back of the alternator hands.

they peg right over the aten warthogs undercarraige gun.

i figure thats how tfmaster gave his energon liokaiser a set of hands when it comes to the mods he did to the warthogs to make guyhawk and hellbat

but those are just my thoughts

by **J.T.Silversmith** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:09 am

I had posted an alternate transformation for the A-10 thar made it look like he had elbows, and you can use the G1 hands to get him to look better, but I can't find the post, so here is the image of mine with hands.

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:13 am

[quote="silverbolt"]just my two cents on the matter.

it might look better design aethetics and bodyily proportions wise if the 2 A10 warthogs served as the limbs but with the back kibble being set up on a removeable and replaceable extra extra thick paperclip piece, theirby making it possible for the backpack kibble to be mounted on the aten warthog figures lower arms and in doing so give the upper arms additional bulk for the combiner form in addition to a set of fully functional duel jointed elbows woth the paper clip securing the bakc pack in place for vehicle and robot mode. just make sure you leave one end of the paperclip curving out past the hole to insure easy grip and removal of it

as for giving the warthogs a more realistic set of hands i figure you can find a good pair to work with from one of those alternator figures

as for modding alternator hands if you have the extra parts justs salvage a set of tech jet wings from one of those universe dollar genmeral superion maximus fighter jets sand the wing kibble of the sides of the tube which the energon bombs peg into and superglu it to the back of the alternator hands.

they peg right over the aten warthogs undercarraige gun.

i figure thats how tfmaster gave his energon liokaiser a set of hands when it comes to the mods he did to the warthogs to make guyhawk and hellbat

but those are just my thoughts

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:23 am

[quote="J.T.Silversmith"]I had posted an alternate transformation for the A-10 thar made it look like he had elbows, and you can use the G1 hands to get him to look better, but I can't find the post, so here is the image of mine with hands.

by **Tramp** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:41 pm

The real beauty of the Energgon combiners is that they follow the whole Scramble City format, si it might be a good idea to figure out a set of hands and feet that are interchangable with both types of jet so either can still be an arm or leg.

by **Ramrider** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:51 pm

[quote="RodimusVTS"]And the fact that they actually look like lower legs ie. the turbinesto the bottom of the wings look like my calf muscles.

News Credits: 1 · by **Rodimus VTS** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:27 pm

I'd like to thank J.T. Silversmith for the inspiration that solved both my hand and foot problem.

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/RodimusVTS/Superionwithnewhandsandfeet.jpg[/img]

by **RavageX-9** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:19 am

the turbines get in the way when they're legs, but the other jets as legs look pretty lame. I think those other jets need better leg AND arm modes. having those two legs sticking out far apart from each other just looks so bad.

by **Rodimus VTS** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:28 am

[quote="Ramrider"][quote="RodimusVTS"]And the fact that they actually look like lower legs ie. the turbinesto the bottom of the wings look like my calf muscles.