The Energon Pub

by **Optimus_Prime_1981** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:30 am

Okay, I have decided to take a stab at trying to mod and kitbash. Hopefully I will have something that will be representitive of what many have done before me. Patience will be a virtue I will have to use a lot of during this process, (I never could wait very long when I was a child.) but now I present the beginnings of my very own Personal Motor Master and Menasor Process. This is totally a "Classics" only toy aside from scratch made peices to give my character smooth transformations from robot to vehicle to combiner. The other Autobots from the "Classics" line are going to be very simple to name off.
Drag Strip= Mirage
Breakdown= Hot Rod
Wild Rider= Side Swipe
Dead End= Blue Streak
More to come please enjoy the transformation of 5 cool Autobots, into 5 Bad @$$ Stunticons!

by **Optimus_Prime_1981** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:39 pm

Hello again all. Well, I have come into a small problem with Creating the legs, and that is when i tried to saw the cab in half it was a little uneven.

I will post pictures this evening to show you what I meant, one more thing i have to ask is how the heck does everyone get their pictures to show up on the post they make? mine just show as attached files... any advice or help towards these 2 problems I have would be appreciated. Thanks! Update later tonight!

by **blobatron** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:00 am

I'm interested to see how this turns out! To get the images to show up, you gotta upload your pictures to something like photobucket or flickr or something, then get the URL for the image and paste it into the [img] part.

by **Optimus_Prime_1981** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:45 pm

Ok here is some pics i am going to try to put on herre to make it easier for you all to see my progress, these are from the beginning to end, i will upload more later as progress is made. happy viewing!
The arms and head...

The legs...

The "Vehicle Mode"...

The Waist and Legs...

Any thoughts, advice or suggestions would greatly be appreciated thanks a bunch guys looking forward to your input

by **Optimus_Prime_1981** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:56 pm

Ok guys stayed up last night getting the legs a little more eye appeasing than what they have been here are some upates for your optics to take and download!
Legs and waist size comparison to Optimus Prime:

and then this is a pic of all the components I have put together at this point:

by **Optimus_Prime_1981** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:21 pm

ok here is some work from last night. I went ahead and revamped the pelvis, found a way to keep the "classics one instead of scratch building it so now it looks a little cleaner than it did, i have also strated sealing off the inside of the cab. i figure hide the abonimation of epoxy that has been mostly ground down. anyhow here are the pics enjoy!

Close up of the legs and pelvis in transformed vehicle mode:

Front view of the cab, still trying to make that small gap disappear:

front view of vehicle mode:

Side view of robot mode:

Other side view:

and one last long shot of the robot mode for now:

let me know how i am doing more updates on finishing the legs for vehicle, robot, and super robot then moving to the torso and the rest of Motor Master.

by **Optimus_Prime_1981** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:45 am

ok, guys I need help. I got to the point where I am want to finish up the legs before moving to the chest, arms, and head, and then of course the combiner method for the top half of Motor Master. Trouble is I want the bottom half of this guy to be able to transform smoothly into vehicle mode, and it is not happening. Now I have the spacing of the legs just right, I have the finishing touches on concealing the epoxy areas almost there, now I am trying to find a way to get it to where I can attach Hot Rod(Stunticon for right leg.) to the roof of the cab in super robot mode, I want to do something similar for sideswipe.(Stunticon for the Left leg.) problem is I don't know what to use to attach/detach these guys to the legs, plus I am having slight problems with the transformablilty of the legs and the torso/groin area. any help you guys could give would be appreciated totally. thanks guys talk to you soon.

by **SonOfNemesis** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:22 pm

Hey man, you took a very brave move (I just repaint) by actually kitbashing. U might get better feedback on tfw2005.com in the radicons section. Good luck man! You just need to refine everything you did and smooth it all out. The paint app will prolly look real nice when you are done.

by **Optimus_Prime_1981** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:00 am

Ok guys here are some updates, hope you guys like how this is turning out, I accidentally drilled through my thumb tonight while attaching the new chest to the waist so literally my blood sweat and tears are going into this creation. lol By the way i need some advice on the legs, I am having trouble attaching them to where they are as articulated as the old joints for the hips were. so please comments and advice! Enjoy!