The Energon Pub

I started with four Combiner Wars Vortex and a Cyclonus. The only thing I've done to Cyclonus so far is some unfinished line work.


Alt modes- I popped off the main and tail rotors to give them a bit of a spaceship/rocket like base. Without attachments it's almost vaguely Sweep-like in shape. After that I partsformed them up with some wings, weapons, and other goodies giving each one a unique look.






Bot mode- they each seem to have their own personality based on their gear loadout. From left to right: Maelstrom- Heavy weapons. Tempest- Engineer (or Tactician haven't decided). Squall- Shock Trooper/assault. Zephyr- Scout. And of course Cyclonus as the commander.






Combined mode- Nice uniformed look free of the rotor kibble that I never really liked on the other Helicopter limbs. Again, no modding to speak of, just more partsforming.




I have an alt configuration for some of the parts in combined mode. Basically just the Dev chest with wings reversed to show the red and silver forward, but it's mostly blocked by the arms anyway so it doesn't have the silhouette I'd have liked. The handheld blaster can also be gripped by the barrel as a melee weapon similar to Generations Straxus' pick axe thing. Just a bit beefier and with shorter blades.


I was going to color the dark teal to a purple, but I think that might be overkill since there's already a lot of purple. Any suggestions for coloring are welcome. I'd like to avoid having to take the figures apart.

Cool idea, and a nice execution of giving Galvatronus dedicated clone-limbs instead of jacking 'em from other combiners.

The Armada-member with two HFGs in vehicle mode looks a bit overburdened - not sure where else they might go, though!

In terms of recoloring, a simple way of tying them all together a bit more cohesively might be to redo the yellow missiles in red, so the Armada shares the red spot colour Galvatronus has on its abs and Devastator kibble.

RevTibe wrote:Cool idea, and a nice execution of giving Galvatronus dedicated clone-limbs instead of jacking 'em from other combiners.

The Armada-member with two HFGs in vehicle mode looks a bit overburdened - not sure where else they might go, though!

In terms of recoloring, a simple way of tying them all together a bit more cohesively might be to redo the yellow missiles in red, so the Armada shares the red spot colour Galvatronus has on its abs and Devastator kibble.

Hmm, yeah I think I like that. I definitely want to get rid of the yellow missiles. Seems like a good direction.


The overburdened ship is the heavy weapons dude, so while it seems clunky I think it kinda fits and I'm not too worried about his alt mode look currently. I've actually incorporated those two hfgs into his bot mode too, they stick on the tailfins so he's got over the shoulder quad chainguns now.

I might yet mess with the heads and/or visors to give 'em each their own look, if only slightly different than the base colors.

Thanks for the input!

Mr Skram wrote:I might yet mess with the heads and/or visors to give 'em each their own look, if only slightly different than the base colors.

Sounds fun - messing with the visor colours etc would be a cool little detail!

I really love what you've done here! Never thought of something like this but it's worked really well! Who's black gun is that? I don't quite recognize it!

Decepticon619 wrote:I really love what you've done here! Never thought of something like this but it's worked really well! Who's black gun is that? I don't quite recognize it!

Thanks! That gun is from leader class Thundercracker, with Cyclonus' arm fins pegged into the 5mm ports on the sides.

Beautiful idea!

I've already ordered the Japanese version of BRUTICUS, so using de-propellered Vortexes is cool!
I'm going to use CW Blastoff for a couple other limbs, but I thank you for the groovy, groovy GROOVY idea.

I've finally gotten around to mess with these guys again. I bought some generic paint markers and so far they seem to do a wonderful job. I have to go back and get some fine point ones for the nooks and crannies but I love the result so far. For now I'm going to focus on just the arm missiles, and mayyyybe the heads. We'll see. I'll post pics once I get some substantial results!