The Energon Pub

Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:27 pm

These are still a work in progress but they are at a point where i can give ya'll a look at them.

heres the link incase they dont show up
http://home.comcast.net/~jezones/wsb/media/1282795/site1148.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jezones/wsb/media/1282795/site1147.jpg

Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:53 pm

jezones wrote:These are still a work in progress but they are at a point where i can give ya'll a look at them.

I'm sure they look awesome like the rest of your Seekers, but the pictures aren't coming up.

Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:00 pm

crazy awesome! once again, you strike jezones! the flat paint is simply fantastic. can't wait to see the finished seekers. :grin:

Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:02 pm

Hmm...cone head movie style seekers?..interesting concept...not quite pulling it off at the moment though but as you said they are still WIP's so heres hoping.

Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:03 pm

Sonray wrote:Hmm...cone head movie style seekers?..interesting concept...not quite pulling it off at the moment though but as you said they are still WIP's so heres hoping.

what else would you like to see on them?

Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:49 pm

In answer directly wo what I'd like to see...

This is something that has bugged the ever living hell out of me lately. Ever since I noticed it on the Botcon exclusive Dirge when compared to G1 Dirge.

http://seibertron.com/toys/fullsize.php?id=1327&size=1&image=19
http://seibertron.com/toys/fullsize.php?id=1336&size=1&image=6

First link is G1, second is Botcon exclusive. The wings. Its really been grinding my thoughts because back in the day, only the four original screamers were straight up repaints of each other. The coneheads were are all different, even from one another.

Seeing as how you modded these guys to be coneheads, I'm going under the idea that you're not afraid of kitbashing:

I'd like your Dirge to have different wings than your Ramjet, not just different heads & paint jobs.

BTW, I hope I didn't come across as rude or anything. I really didn't mean to offend if I did.

Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:04 pm

didnt come off a rude. but im really not going any further on these. the head is enough for me. i did a little more to thrust but even he will not be enough to satisfy your passion for the coneheads.

Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:03 pm

Doesn't really work for me, if I'm honest. The repaint work's brilliant, as ever, but the conehead mod just looks awkward to my eye - I think they'd look far better just as the standard Seeker format.

But then I never liked the coneheads in the first place. It was only the cartoon that gave them the look in the first place; the toys were never designed that way, and when people started positioning the noses on the toys up 'to look like the cartoon', well... frankly it just looked stupid.

Admittedly, on these versions it looks somewhat less forced, but I still think they would have been better left as they were.

Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:13 pm

jezones wrote:
Sonray wrote:Hmm...cone head movie style seekers?..interesting concept...not quite pulling it off at the moment though but as you said they are still WIP's so heres hoping.

what else would you like to see on them?

Well my main problem is the head isnt molded into the fuselage of the nose section is it? It is just re-positioned behind the head which just looks forced to me, not a real cone head. I dont really know how to explain it.

The paint is all fine and dandy i just dont really dig the cone head design you have used.

Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:35 pm

As with your other repaints, the paint scheme is awesome. Like some of the others have said, I'm just not feeling the conehead with the cockpit mounted behind them.

Kudos for the effort thought. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:03 am

this is funny if i wouldn't have even tried to make these coneheads people would have been up in arms saying what the hell wheres the conehead. as for the wings well i actually tried some different things and they all looked really ugly with the f-22's body lines. Its a jet that really needs those wings to look good. maybe someone else a little better at the kitbashing can come up with something better. i have to clean house but i will get the res of the shots of them up later today.

regards
mark

News Credits: 1 · Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:57 am

DeathNoble wrote: Its really been grinding my thoughts because back in the day, only the four original screamers were straight up repaints of each other. The coneheads were are all different, even from one another.

Back in the G1 Days? They are all the same..... Dirge and Ramjet just had different weapons and wings. Thrust had the same weapons but different wings as well.

I like what you did! :-P

News Credits: 17 · Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:56 am

Those are pretty creative.

Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:26 pm

So how do they transform back to jet mode?

Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:33 pm

ChrisR291 wrote:
DeathNoble wrote: Its really been grinding my thoughts because back in the day, only the four original screamers were straight up repaints of each other. The coneheads were are all different, even from one another.

Back in the G1 Days? They are all the same..... Dirge and Ramjet just had different weapons and wings. Thrust had the same weapons but different wings as well.

I like what you did!

Exactly my point.