The Energon Pub

News Credits: 3 · by **crazysteve** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:05 pm

I got my quintesson guards finished last week. I ended up making twenty of them because ten just didn't look like enough and I don't have the time to do thirty. You can see from the close ups that I'm not very good at painting or casting. There are many flaws, air bubbles and rough edges in each piece. All in all the shark portion of the diorama was fun and I'm looking forward to finishing the other pieces and showing it at Iacon One.

News Credits: 4 · by **MacrossFA19** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:06 pm

tell me you are going to sell some of them! And if so ........DIBS!

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:27 pm

crazysteve wrote:I got my quintesson guards finished last week. I ended up making twenty of them because ten just didn't look like enough and I don't have the time to do thirty. You can see from the close ups that I'm not very good at painting or casting. There are many flaws, air bubbles and rough edges in each piece. All in all the shark portion of the diorama was fun and I'm looking forward to finishing the other pieces and showing it at Iacon One.

bah! You're your own worst critic!

These are bloody great! Such a wonderful ingenius idea! And this from the guy who dislikes TF things that don't transform!

But these, these I like!

News Credits: 3 · by **crazysteve** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:50 pm

Thanks. You guys are always cool about my stuff. I tell you what. If anyone sees me at Iacon One and still likes the guards after evaluating them in person, I'll sell them at 5 dollars each. You can take your pick once we're there, but I need them to be in the diorama so I can't sell them off until 6 p.m. Saturday evening.

by **tentagil** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:41 pm

They look sweet.

by **Hobbyist Prime** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:06 pm

Looks like a fine job to me!

by **Jestermon** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:10 pm

Are those scratch built? becasue the feet look like Zoids feet, just asking if they are and what zoid is was.

News Credits: 3 · by **crazysteve** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:34 pm

Jestermon wrote:Are those scratch built? becasue the feet look like Zoids feet, just asking if they are and what zoid is was.

Good catch! The guards are resin castings and I took the feet and arms from other toys I had when I made the master prototype. I used one of the Zoids from the Z-builders set that makes up Matrix Dragon. I think it was the red lion one. You can see how I chopped off the parts of the feet that I wanted when I made the prototype that I cast the parts from:

If you look closely at the movie you'll se that the shape of the feet isn't very movie accurate, but I wanted them to be big so they'd be stable and the Zoids feet looked menacing. All the parts that are white or tan I made out of styrene or sculpey. Then I made molds of the parts and once I cast enough parts for twenty guards I glued them all together.

News Credits: 4 · by **MacrossFA19** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:44 pm

but I am not going to Iacon! I still want one though!

by **Pun-3X** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:48 pm

Damn good stuff! I love armies. And these things just look too cool. You really did a great job on them. I especially like the teeth.

by **eggshen** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:31 am

Those are great! Love the pic with Daniel.

Website · by **Skullgrin140** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:07 am

OMG! OMG! They look so bloody Awesome! I want them all!

by **TFLobo** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:44 am

Very cool!!

News Credits: 1 · by **TFmaster** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:00 pm

I want a one!!! NO!! Three!!!

TFM

by **Jestermon** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:15 pm

And since we know by now repaints are inevitable I think this will be Grimlock lol break off all the spikes except the teeth and your ready to paint him up.