The Energon Pub

by **Us and Them** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:28 pm

Just a little add on from the figures I sold last week on Ebay, all finished..I touched them up a bit and almost completely repainted Magnus to clean him up etc..Nothing special, but he looks a lot better now, and now with Alt mode pics.

(those pics were requested by buyer..)
First kinda touch ups..high resolution version..

This was how they originally looked..

by **Mepain** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:22 pm

Nemesis Prime is beast! I don't know really about Ultra Magnus though :-?

But good job nonetheless :grin:

News Credits: 8 · by **Jin Saotome** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:43 pm

That's a badass Nemesis prime! I'm going to have to make one of those if I can snag a Cybertron prime cheap. And I think Ultra Magnus is staring at your chest in the pics. Nice incentive to look at the pics, heheh... *winks*

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:46 pm

Very nice pics. And the repaints are cool too. :grin:

News Credits: 1 · by **Sherade** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:09 pm

You are the God of Nemesis Prime.
Also, you did greatr not making Magnus just a white prime, nice move.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gandalf** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:24 pm

Did you customize their matrixes?

News Credits: 75 · by **Devastator** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:19 pm

Nemesis Prime is cool. I've seen a dozen more like it, but yours is as good as the best. The Ultra Magnus I'm more impressed with. I have not seen a Galaxy Force custom of him before, and it looks like you did a great job on him.

by **Mighty Scorponok** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:31 am

Man, I am drooling over Nemesis prime. Made me almost wanna go and buy it (Ohhhh Wait, I cant, they dont sell himlike you just made him>. Bummer.

by **Us and Them** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:38 am

Thanks..Yeah, People seem to find me for anything to do with a Black Prime repaint. Originally I really didn't like how Magnus came out..But the new paint on him was much more solid. Back when I first took a stab at him, I used some paint from a Testors bottle that never went over to evenly. The colors were all blah, which you can see in the very last pic of Magnus. But before I shipped him, I went over him again with Krylon, spraying it just into a little plastic dish, and that stuff spreads and dries really great, very even. Now I rather liked him..Right before I got rid of him.

by **Us and Them** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:39 am

Gandalf wrote:Did you customize their matrixes?

Yep, Nem got the evil matrix.

by **Sonray** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:04 pm

Wait...your a woman?!

Cool! I never realized it before for whatever reason as a female transformer fan is rare, one that likes to repaint them is even rare-er!

Nice job, ive never been into this mold before but now i might get one someday. They look quite mean and meaty.

by **Us and Them** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:55 pm

It is a good mold yeah..Easy enough to take apart, and lots of detail and parts to play with detailing and such.

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:36 pm

Mepain wrote:Nemesis Prime is beast! I don't know really about Ultra Magnus though But good job nonetheless

I think they both look SWEET, but the critique I have for the magnus is the head. Without retooling, the head still looks too much like Ops and not enough like Mags. It still looks awesome, it just does not capture the character of Mags for me.

For those interested, I saw about 4 million of these in a TRU today sitting next to the overstocked Primuses. They must have just popped up since they weren't there last week. Check your local TRU if you are looking for the mold.

It's the version with the black parts, not blue, that was released late in the cybertron run.

Again, very nice work!

by **Us and Them** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:35 pm

Thanks. And yeah, I'd have loved to make the head different, I thought of just removing the mouth plate..But I couldn't get it out, and then it just didn't look right. And I have basically no actual kitbashing skills, I can just paint stuff.

by **olokin** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:41 am

you got great painting skills!

Nice job on the customs. I especially like Nemesis.

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:44 am

Us and Them wrote:Thanks. And yeah, I'd have loved to make the head different, I thought of just removing the mouth plate..But I couldn't get it out, and then it just didn't look right. And I have basically no actual kitbashing skills, I can just paint stuff.

I hear ya there! I just started trying to sculpt heads for these guys using this guy's tutorial:
http://www.tfmaster.com/articles_custom_head.php

So far mine still look a little doughy, but it's a heckuva lot of fun!

Anyway, keep posting these awesome pics, they keep reminding me I need to finish my classics and MP nemmy primes.

by **Sonray** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:46 am

BTW i didnt mean to sound totally mentally empty with my comment about you being a woman. I never paid any attention to your sig you see as i thought you was a guy and that was your GF. lol

by **Us and Them** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:36 pm

It's ok, been there and done that one type of thing.

by **Sonray** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:10 pm

Us and Them wrote:It's ok, been there and done that one type of thing.

By the by what is the weather like up there an Buffalo? I used to live in Rochester and i remember it got pretty nipply this time of year. How thick is the snow now? lol

by **Prince_of_Chaos** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:10 am

Wow uve got my eye set on that. i just have to say thats is the best nemesis prime from cybertron optimus ive seen and the first ultra magnus. I reakon that all u need is an ultra magnus head to stick on that and itl be perfect. oh yea if u didnt already realize ultra magnus is my fav tf. even 1 like that. nice job

by **Us and Them** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:34 am

Thanks Reaver.

And so far, no snow..But it's in the forcast for tonight. It's just been over cast and rainy some. Yesterday was actually up around 60.

News Credits: 1 · by **Optimist_Prime** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:49 pm

Sonray wrote:Wait...your a woman?!

Cool! I never realized it before for whatever reason as a female transformer fan is rare, one that likes to repaint them is even rare-er!

you should of snuck in Shia LeBouf's cheesey "More Than Meets the Eye" line. :BLACKEYE:

by **Sonray** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:40 am

Optimist_Prime wrote:
Sonray wrote:Wait...your a woman?!

Cool! I never realized it before for whatever reason as a female transformer fan is rare, one that likes to repaint them is even rare-er!

you should of snuck in Shia LeBouf's cheesey "More Than Meets the Eye" line.

Oh dayum, what a missed opportunity!