The Energon Pub

by **TM griffith76** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:34 pm

Just playing around with the renders of the Prime model I built using Maya. Too lazy to add in colors and proper textures though :p

Enjoy!!

by **Autobot Shade 0066** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:37 pm

That is an awesomely sweet job.

by **Primus_feather** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:56 pm

ooooooooooooh shinny ... COLOR!

by **Tramp** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:57 pm

I agree, you have to get this in color and with texture.

News Credits: 2 · by **grimlockprime108** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:13 pm

that is frikkin sweet

by **TM griffith76** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:59 am

I doubt I wanna add color in, I did have the color scheme ready but those are in separate parts. When I can free up more time I'll arrange the parts to be machined out. What would be a good size for this? say, 8"?

by **Lord_Loqi** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:25 pm

SWEET! It's the ehobby gold exclusive

looks great. I admit I was fooled for a second, Great render.

by **Glue** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:00 am

I was fantasizing about making some HoS customs when I thought it'd be rather keen to make them such that they could sit and ride on actual scale model train set tracks.

I've since done some research into the model train hobby and found out the most popular scale is HO, except that that's roughly 1:87. It's apparently great for its intended purpose of letting hobbyists model lots of landscape into smaller sets, but such small trains would be rather difficult to transform for customs.

Then I found G scale, 1:24 (actually a range of varying scales around this, that all run on a single gauge of track), designed for outdoor/garden type sets. I'm thinking that HoS customs in 1:24 would be nicely comparable to the Alts scale.

I'd also dreamt of HoS customs that, when transformed into their locomotive modes, could actually run on model tracks too. Unfortunately, real model locomotives seem to have mechanisms that take up most of the interior bulk of the locomotive. Trying to figure a way to stuff those mechanisms into a custom Prime's or Bumblebee's legs would be a tad trickier.. =)

Website · by **Skullgrin140** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:30 pm

Frikkin Sweat!

by **Primus_feather** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:23 pm

Glue wrote:I was fantasizing about making some HoS customs when I thought it'd be rather keen to make them such that they could sit and ride on actual scale model train set tracks.

I've since done some research into the model train hobby and found out the most popular scale is HO, except that that's roughly 1:87. It's apparently great for its intended purpose of letting hobbyists model lots of landscape into smaller sets, but such small trains would be rather difficult to transform for customs.

Then I found G scale, 1:24 (actually a range of varying scales around this, that all run on a single gauge of track), designed for outdoor/garden type sets. I'm thinking that HoS customs in 1:24 would be nicely comparable to the Alts scale.

I'd also dreamt of HoS customs that, when transformed into their locomotive modes, could actually run on model tracks too. Unfortunately, real model locomotives seem to have mechanisms that take up most of the interior bulk of the locomotive. Trying to figure a way to stuff those mechanisms into a custom Prime's or Bumblebee's legs would be a tad trickier.. =)

I think one of the few ways your gonna be able to pull this off "simply" would be to get a power supply and train motor for you off the smaller sets and intigrate into the larger size tracks, only problem is im not sure if theres enough power in the smaller power supply to travel throu the larger rails. But if it does work you should try to make the transformer lighter so not to strain the motor.

by **piranacon** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:01 am

ah i though that was similor to your style of robots. i remember you on JD-Ps site was it eric?, ive got an army of your 3" bumblebee's and one of those 6" ones,

so whats the price on these $300?, also is it possabel for you to make one half the size for cheaper,

by **TM griffith76** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:29 am

Yep that's me. It can't be smaller and I had initially wanted to make it stand at 8" instead of 10, but the cutters can't reach in for that size and certain parts are too small and too easily breakable so I have to enlarge it instead.