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)