The Energon Pub

by **rhinox555** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:25 am

Woah nice!

Can't wait to see 'em all in Robot mode.

by **TM chaosbringer** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:09 pm

Is wildrider the same size has classics hot rod in car mode?

cant wait to see them all together in both modes :wink:

by **Ramrider** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:34 pm

Very nice. How'd you do the detailing on the bonnet?

by **REDLINE** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:24 am

he's pretty close... same length, not as wide and slightly taller (which honestly is probably accurate seeing as Hotrod is a sportcar which means wider stance and lower center-of-gravity and all that).

The hood is a cheap sticker I found at my local Hobby Lobby, in their pinecar section next to the model paints... a 12" by 4 " sheet for only $1.89... Its extremely reflective and you can actually see the pattern slightly change depending on your angle of view/angle relation to your light source too.

by **REDLINE** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:49 am

well, its update time again

DRAGSTRIP!

Basically, a Formula car just sans sponsor. I was afraid to paint it straight yellow, as I think it'd look too plain, but I also didn't want to stray from the roots either, so I broke it up with Ford grabber orange from Model Masters.

by **rhinox555** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:41 am

Me too,but the blue thing on Mirage's roof,shouldn't it be silver on dragstrip? just wondering.

by **TM dak** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:04 am

sweeeet! I'm excited to see the combined form.

by **REDLINE** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:41 am

rhinox555 wrote:Me too,but the blue thing on Mirage's roof,shouldn't it be silver on dragstrip? just wondering.

not really... you could, but on the original, its the engine exposed that is silver, which on this is just an air-intake. If it makes you feel any better, the original transforms so that silver piece ends up on the chest, and for this, the robot mode has silver on the chest.

by **rhinox555** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:03 am

Sounds cool,i can't wait to see all the robot modes.

by **rhinox555** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:33 pm

Is the head for motormaster a scratchbuilt one or did you customize the prime head?
If you scratchbuilt the head,could you sell me Prime's head?

by **REDLINE** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:13 am

Motormaster's head is a Sculptbot original.

I don't intend to sell the Prime head, but I might could be persuaded to trade it if you had another head that worked for me...

OK, sorry for the cruddy pics. for some reason my camera kept trying to focus on the background every once in awhile instead of the object. It didn't happen every time, so I dunno what I did wrong exactly.

Drone car #1. This particular drone will make up Menasor's left foot. Obviously those guns will come off when he's a foot, and the wheels rotate up and off the ground. This was my first ever scratch-build, and also my first ever use of Apoxie sculpt. I have come a long way since I did this car a couple months ago *L* I owe PK a shout-out, as I was complaining about how plain it was when he suggested I add another layer of styrene to the front to give the headlights and grill and everything definition, and was he ever right. If not for him, the front end would be flat other than just those lil guns sticking out!

by **rhinox555** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:52 am

Looks a bit warped,but it looks so awesome.i would've used styrene,but this is one helluva nice stunti-drone.

by **REDLINE** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:29 am

what looks warped on it?

by **rhinox555** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:25 am

Just the edges a bit. but it's still awesome.

by **REDLINE** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:52 am

ahh ok.. when you said warped, I imagined something a lot stronger than that *L*. The other drone is a lot nice than this one, promise. You'll see tomorrow

by **rhinox555** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:41 am

It's still an awesome drone,just saying i'd have used styrene sheets.
But it's still an awesome drone.

by **REDLINE** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:24 am

It IS styrene sheets. my first scratchbuild, so I firstly used putty just to fix any gaps in corners, then added more on the hood over the "guns". In fact, the only parts not squared off are right over each of those "gun barrels".

I was gonna show these yesterday, but not only long day at work, but spent the rest of the day working on my car, and once I finally got to sit down, I promptly passed out! So I'm a day late, and for that I apologize, but better late than never, eh? At least I can happily report that those hinges came in today.

Drone car #2. I think its safe to say that I came a good way from when I did the first drone, don't you?

by **rhinox555** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:10 am

Awesome work!

by **REDLINE** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:13 am

thanks. that's quite the glob of apoxie sculpt in the center there *L* Here's a shot of both drones together:

by **rhinox555** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:11 am

To quote fez from that '70s show: "they look so nice together!"

by **REDLINE** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:12 am

hehe, thanks.

Don't worry guys, I'm getting close! I've got the hinges for the trailer done, and the pegs for holding it shut done, and the stands for supporting it when its opened done too! Tomorrow I'll do the gun turrets and mask the chrome off and lay down the base coat for the interior. That means that Weds the trailer will be ready for reassembly, and if the stickers show up(possible) I'll be able to stick 'em on right away, and then you'll get to see MM finally. After that, probably just a couple days to finish the interior off... so I'm still right on schedule to get done by the weekend the last of the project.

by **REDLINE** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:46 am

OK. the labels didn't get sent out till back at the beginning of the week 'cause reprolabels has been swamped. BUT I went ahead and finished everything else up on the trailer/base so that now I only have to apply those stickers on the outside and then cover them with some future floor finish to seal them down. I went ahead a took a couple of pictures of MM's alt mode since we've all been waiting for so long to see him. No shots of the whole kit-n-kaboodle from the side, as that's waiting till after I get the labels in, but these'll do for now

by **Pun-3X** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:01 pm

That's definitely got the look down. Very nice!

by **TM Nitrospark** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:23 pm

Cool. Very Motormaster...

by **REDLINE** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:27 am

Its still a few days away before I ought to be recieving my trailer stickers, so I still don't have a nice group photograph of all the alt-modes. I figured that while that interupts my plans a bit, that what the hell, I'll go ahead and show you guys something you've been waiting a really long time to see, Wildrider!