The Energon Pub

As of today, May 25 2025, I have graduated medical school!



It’s kinda cool that this page was running back when I was accepted, so many things have happened since then, and so many customs were done! When I was first accepted 4 years ago, I had Jeremiah 29:11 on my mind, and that verse has been something I have clung to in all the (pretty frequent) challenging moments when things seemed impossible:

“For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

And today I’m here to tell you that God has pulled through!

With Med School complete, I’ll be headed to Residency in about a month’s time, where I’ll be much busier. As a result, I won’t be able to maintain customs as frequently as I have been. I’ve got a few legends class customs on the way soon with one Studio Series custom in current development I hope to finish before July. From there, I’ll be cutting back on posts and customs pretty significantly, but not entirely! I’ll be painting up new Bayverse figures when they come out and will likely have some legends class repaints here and there.

Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you all with the next custom!

93: KSI Widow

Hey, I'm back! Got several Studio Series projects in the works right now, and first up is our last Bayverse release for 2025: KSI Widow!

- Robot Mode -
Despite being mapped onto the McLaren alt mode rather than a Pagani Huayra, KSI Widow is largely based on one particular piece of concept art (If you’re familiar with Widow concepts, it’s the one with the Pagani headlights on the shoulders). I used this one as a primary reference for my painting, swapping the red for orange. There’s gold, silver, and black details, with a little bit of yellow on the arms. I did improvise for some segments though, particularly on the head sculpt, the blasters, and some spots on the torso. The head sculpt was fun to paint, I added some gunmetal to increase the shading effect with some orange spots mixed in.







- Alt Mode -

For alt mode, I found a really cool metallic orange spray paint that I felt matches the McLaren used for filming a little better! Starting with that as a base coat, I picked out the lights in silver around the alt mode, added black to the inner section of the tires, and repainted the back of alt mode with dark gunmetal with a small red section for the tail lights.







Paint used:

Testor's enamels:

- Gloss red
- Flat gunmetal
- Flaming orange (Extreme lacquer spray)

Acrylics:

- Craftsmart Gunmetal
- Decoart gloss white
- Decoart gloss orange (mixed with metallic red and copper)
- Decoart metallic silver
- Decoart metallic gold
- Decoart metallic bronze

Other:

- Rustoleum gloss coay (spray)

A new update for the page is here with a complete redo for my custom ROTF Jolt and a new gallery for Clunker Bumblebee, check them out using the link below back on page 4!



Clunker Bumblebee: evasionmodebumblebees-studio-series-repaints-p2119550.php#p2117445

Jolt (ROTF): evasionmodebumblebees-studio-series-repaints-p2119550.php#p2119550

Got another update for you as I work on new projects, this time it's 2007 Ratchet! Touched up some details and added a few new ones! Check it out back on page 5 using the link below:

evasionmodebumblebees-studio-series-repaints-t114471s100.php#p2136764

94: Optimus Prime (Age of Extinction, Knightwatch repaint)

I'm kicking off my 2026 customs with a really fun repaint of the excellent AOE Optimus Prime mold! This is the first of several repaints on the way soon, check out the freshly updated guide back on page 1 to get a hint of what's on the way!

- Robot Mode -
Starting off with our base colors, I mixed up a new blue that evokes the original figure's colors and uses some of the colors from the AOE Prime blue mix with the addition of a small amount of gloss gray. Testor's flat gunmetal made up the black paint, and I mixed metallic purple with some silver for the couple of purple details in bot mode. I started with the basic color breakup of AOE Prime but then went and added more of the dark gunmetal to sections. We've got some Allspark blue details courtesy of metallic turquoise paint, and I added flames to the forearms and chest. There's less flames in alt mode than the regular AOE Prime truck, so I reflected that in the robot mode deco by having them still on the chest and arms, but not on the legs. The gold details on the arms and chest as well as the small purple pieces on the chest were all meant to homage the location of those details on the original Hasbro deco for Nightwatch Prime.







- Alt Mode -

Vehicle mode presented some fun options when adapting the original Nightwatch deco. Capturing the original colors (or my versions of them) wasn't difficult, but I knew I wanted to make some changes as the sleeper cab portion of the truck on the original repaint is pretty much just blue. I decided to carry forwards the black stripe on the side as well as the silver stripe, but then to add some influence of the original AOE/TLK truck, had the stripe turn into flames! The grill was a little more difficult to paint on this version than it was on the original AOE Prime for some reason, so that took quite a while to complete. I freehanded the flames over the wheel wells again, which was definitely faster than last time! I added some accents with the headlights in Allspark blue, taillights in red, and various smaller details in silver and gunmetal!







Paint used:

Testor's enamels:

- Gloss red
- Gloss tangerine
- Flat gunmetal

Acrylics:

- Craftsmart Gunmetal
- Decoart ultramarine blue (mixed with Folkart metallic blue sapphire and Decoart gloss gray)
- Decoart gloss black
- Decoart Metallic purple (mixed with a little bit of silver)
- Decoart metallic silver
- Decoart metallic gold
- Folkart metallic turquoise

Other:

- Krylon gloss coay (spray)
- Krylon metallic purple
- Rustoleum chrome silver (spray)
- Vallejo black model wash