The Energon Pub

Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:03 pm

This is a commission from a guy who wanted his Energon Towline turned into G1 Ironhide (duh. Also sorry about the pics being so dark, but its night here right now and i have sucky lighting).

I used two-pack car paint for the alt mode panels (not forgetting to add the important gold stripe down the sides

) and enamel for the bot mode parts all sealed with acrylic laquer. All the silver is enamel as well. He came out pretty well despite a few problems with rubbing when transforming, but i have fixed most of that now and he's all ready to go back to his owner. He paid £25 for this repaint not bad i guess.

News Credits: 1014 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:16 pm

Looks like the BOTCON version. Does look good though.

Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:18 pm

This is BETTER than the botcon version! The head is better than the botcon one, which was a tad feminine for me.

I love it!

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:37 pm

Not bad.

Not bad at all :grin:

Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:40 pm

i must say i do like it, it also reminds of inferno to from the 80s toon as well in robot mode

Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:49 pm

pretty cool!

:MAX:

News Credits: 1014 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:52 pm

g1optimusprime wrote:i must say i do like it, it also reminds of inferno to from the 80s toon as well in robot mode

Holy crap, look who's back. Whats up Prime? Man been a while since I seen you on here.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:14 pm

Ah, it's another Ironhide.
Glad this worked better than your movie one, great stuff.

Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:10 pm

Sherade wrote:Ah, it's another Ironhide.
Glad this worked better than your movie one, great stuff.

Me too, and ya know why?

Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:10 pm

First Gen wrote:Looks like the BOTCON version. Does look good though.

Thanks guys! Comments like these really mean a lot to me!

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:12 pm

nice job!

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:45 pm

Sonray wrote:
Sherade wrote:Ah, it's another Ironhide.
Glad this worked better than your movie one, great stuff.

Me too, and ya know why?

Um..the paint...or did you think of me and thought..if I made it as perfect as Sherade...

Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:53 pm

Sherade wrote:
Sonray wrote:
Sherade wrote:Ah, it's another Ironhide.
Glad this worked better than your movie one, great stuff.

Me too, and ya know why?

Um..the paint...or did you think of me and thought..if I made it as perfect as Sherade...

Pfft..you wish.

But yeah, it was the paint. Just proves my point that acrylics suck. hehe.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:55 pm

Sonray wrote:
Sherade wrote:
Sonray wrote:
Sherade wrote:Ah, it's another Ironhide.
Glad this worked better than your movie one, great stuff.

Me too, and ya know why?

Um..the paint...or did you think of me and thought..if I made it as perfect as Sherade...

Pfft..you wish.

But yeah, it was the paint. Just proves my point that acrylics suck. hehe.

And Enamels rock..or if only for me.
And I don't wish..I know.
Car paint is great too, but to save time, I buy factory touch up paint.

Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:59 pm

Nah i prefer enamels too, most of this is painted in enamels. I prefer car paint though. Its just so much easier to work with especially if its in spray can form.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:07 pm

We could talk like this all day, couldn't we?
Anyhow, spray is better, but for the TF's I try, hand paint is good. Speaking of which, I recently salvaged an old matchbox car from certain doom. couldn't let a good car die.