The Energon Pub

by **Auto Bot** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:17 pm

Dam good. You're able to make individual fingers in such a small scale robot. Amazing. How come a big company like Hasbro can't have the technical ability to do that?

by **Mepain** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:29 pm

When your finished could you make a video of the transformation? :PRAY:

by **Auto Bot** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:49 pm

How'd you do the fingers? Can we have a really really close up pic of the hand?

(Bay style super-zoom in)

by **nwheeljack** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:12 pm

Well, here are some pics [sorry crappy cellphone camera]... the fingers are made from little pieces of cutted styrene.
I hope that next week i could get some decent camera

cheers

by **Mepain** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:19 pm

Looking very good. :grin:

Can't wait until you get better pictures.

by **ambroseya** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:30 pm

Cool! he is grow taller!

News Credits: 1 · by **Asepticon** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:59 am

I still can't believe people are actually doing scratch built work like this. It is more than impressive. You should be proud.

by **Ramrider** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:43 am

Absolutely gorgeous. :grin:

And Auto Bot, as ever, I imagine the main reason Hasbro don't do articulated hands on normal figures is money. It'd require casting many more, much smaller parts, which would also put assembly costs up. True, such a fig would kick arse at retail, but I think it'd be a collector's piece (like a Masterpiece) rather than one of the standard toys.

by **Sonray** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:48 am

Those fingers, how did you join them all together and still keep them articulated?

by **Auto Bot** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:45 am

With this method of transformation, Bumblebee should stand taller than most of the Autobots. Including Ironhide.

by **Ramrider** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:08 am

He certainly does look pretty tall in robot mode.

by **Auto Bot** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:50 am

If a beetle is, say, 12 feet long. This Bumblebee stands more than 25 feet! Quite close to G1 Prime's height of 30 feet!

All that from a small bug!

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:51 am

I'd really like to see a comparison shot with other TFs to see scale. I know there were a few shots with Starscream posted but I don't have that one so it doesn't help

by **Auto Bot** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:13 am

This Bumblebee is the closest resemblance to the tv cartoon.

by **olokin** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:31 am

The painting has started. Looking forward to the detailing.

by **Auto Bot** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:24 pm

Is it possible to make the windows transparent? Or at least retain the original translucence of the styrene?

by **Decatron** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:11 am

Is he going to have a visor/battle mask of some sort? It looks like he has a faceplate based, on your recent pics.

Looks awesome by the way! Very impressive still!

by **Auto Bot** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:17 am

What are the wheels made of? All four of them are in perfect mold, perfect shape!

Where did 2 of the wheels go in robot mode?

by **nwheeljack** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:36 pm

Thanks for the kind words, now some answers... the windows are not going to be translucent... :-?

the wheels are stored inside the ^feets^, and the visor is an ad-on, the face remains behind it.

Cheers

by **Sonray** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:01 pm

Hi. You said the hands and arms and fingers are made out of polystyrene, how comes you didnt just use normal styrene? Is there some advantages to using the materials that you used for this?

I ask as i would like to know as i have a very special project lined up (not related to your great work, but its the same character) and it requires a lot of scratch building. By the looks of it you are a master of it so i figured id ask you first.

Thanks, and try to post more often will ya?

by **Auto Bot** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:02 am

nwheeljack wrote:Thanks for the kind words, now some answers... the windows are not going to be translucent... the wheels are stored inside the ^feets^, and the visor is an ad-on, the face remains behind it.

Cheers

Clever solution to the wheels. Very nice!

by **Auto Bot** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:04 am

What's the difference between styrene and polystyrene? I thought they were the same material.

by **Sonray** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:26 am

Auto Bot wrote:What's the difference between styrene and polystyrene? I thought they were the same material.

Are they? How comes his is clear then?

News Credits: 2 · by **An_de** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:23 am

I can't wait to see your BB finished :grin:

by **Speed Shot** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:26 am

I don't mean to be mean but his limbs look like they're made of scotch tape! I kno it's a WIP so sorry if I offended you. But I'm wondering...EVERYTHING is scratch built?