The Energon Pub

by **Us and Them** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:00 pm

Not a major update as of yet..But the Ravage 2.0 is all set and painted..I've used the Krylon metallic gold finish. I'll give it a few days to dry before I start to put him together again. Now as you can see, most of the body is gold. I'll be doing the forearms in silver..That leaves the interior of the car pieces..I'm still debating on what color to use for those. I'm thinking either a solid brown, or maybe a metallic copper like color. It'd go for the seats, dash, and the car skeleton, or his chest/stomach part..What do you guys think? Which color should I go with? And, like they did with Rumble, giving him some reference to his old tape deck..And ideas on ways to make this one more of a throw back to the gen-1 tape version?

News Credits: 3 · by **Barricade** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:28 pm

omfg sami if this one turns out like your other customs then this will be amazing...... i cant wait :grin:

you coulds somehow get it so his doors form the wings on steeljaw likemake a silver design on the side of his car that forms a wing-like design when in bot mode...

News Credits: 1 · by **Asepticon** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:28 am

So far, so very good! Keep it up.

by **Us and Them** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:50 am

I like the idea about the doors..So far that seems like the best option to go on there.

by **olokin** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:24 am

I can't wait to see the finished product!

by **Sonray** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:28 am

Looking good so far.

News Credits: 5 · by **frenzy_rumble** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:58 am

wow! this is gonna be frikkin awesome!

One thing I'd recommend when painting with gold (or chrome or silver for that matter)

metallics look best when sprayed lightly on a gloss black base coat, OR - sand out the layer you got on it now, until it is dull, but still gold. Then apply a final coat.

by **Cycrolus** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:10 pm

Wow I feel special someone actually used one of my ideas.

Here's the other pics I did.

by **Us and Them** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:23 pm

Actually these are what I made..

But the pic posted, is what the person who commissioned me to do this gave me as a design. My apologies if he "stole" your idea for it. I wasn't aware that he was using someone else's design.

by **icanfly** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:27 am

Im not sure anyone can claim it as an original idea. Its an obvious repaint option. I have plans for one to get made. For the wings that you want, simply rotate the doors up 90 degrees. the neck can also be rotated so it is held higher like aproud lion. Id really like to see someone modify one into Ramhorn

JL

News Credits: 1 · by **Vampir** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:23 am

It's so... shiny :shock:

by **Us and Them** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:48 am

It won't be mirrored chrome type gold, no. It'll be a rather realistic type gold paint job on the car..I put the head and neck together last night..It looks pretty cool

by **Cycrolus** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:59 pm

Us and Them wrote:But the pic posted, is what the person who commissioned me to do this gave me as a design. My apologies if he "stole" your idea for it. I wasn't aware that he was using someone else's design.

No actually I'm flattered. In the world of Digi and kitbashing were all just kinda bouncing ideas off of each other. And I remember someone on tfans.com (where I had originally posted it) say they were going to get it commissioned. Awesome Please just let me see the finished product.

by **Cycrolus** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:08 pm

Woot! found it. It was a commission on my part. http://forums.tformers.com/talk/index.p ... 9583&st=20
Is this whos getting it done? The Rick guy?

by **Us and Them** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:49 am

Yep, this is for Rick..

Well, here's a little tease as to how it will look alt mode wise..

[zero-kaiser's YouTube Channel] · by **zero-kaiser** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:00 am

this is lookin to be an awesome custom

ill be keeping an eye on this i think

id offer a suggestion for the whole "reference to G1 tape form" but im not very familiar with that figure.. maybe paint the stereo in the dashboard (assuming there is one) in Soundwaves colours?

by **Sonray** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:25 am

Looks nice in gold after its all put together. What paint did you say you are using again? And did you prime this before you painted it? If not that things gonna chip like a mo-fo on all those joints.

by **Us and Them** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:37 am

I did light sanding but not a primer layer, I never have done that on any of them. The krylon paint I use bonds pretty well to the plastic after a weeks time to dry.

by **Sonray** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:05 am

Us and Them wrote:I did light sanding but not a primer layer, I never have done that on any of them. The krylon paint I use bonds pretty well to the plastic after a weeks time to dry.

Oh yeah i hear that stuffs good, cant get it over here though and nothing else works for me except car paint. Acrylics, enamels, they all suck to me now. They let me down again just recently so im not using them anymore.

by **Us and Them** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:43 pm

Well, almost done..Few touch ups and some minor details..He sohuld be done this weekend..PS, I think I'll wipe the yellow off his chrome rockets..it just didn't work like I hoped it would.

by **darth_paul** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:22 am

Very nice. You are very talented, every one of your repaints are awesome. This Steeljaw is the best so far IMO.

News Credits: 75 · by **Devastator** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:40 am

Sweet paint apps! He's so shiny I've been temporarily blinded.

by **olokin** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:30 am

It looks great. Nice work!

I see that Ravage can become SteelJaw. Those doors look like wings.

by **Us and Them** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 5:43 pm

Thanks everyone:) He is rather shiny huh?

So, overnight I came up with this idea--Rick, the guy who commissioned this piece, had mentioned a few times as to wanting wings on the back legs with the missles..Now, not being one for actual kitbashing..I did get this idea here--I saw the Energon Galvatron wings on his back, and they would work perfectly..So, I cut them off, trimmed, and there is actually 2 holdes in the mold that fit perfectly onto the ball joint. Here's where it's at now,

And once I can paint it all silver, and glue them together, this is what I'm hoping the finished piece will look like..

by **RickCoronel** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:47 pm

Hello, I'm rick.

I commissioned Steeljaw with Frenzy which looks great.

Thanks again Sami.

Cycrolus, thanks for the digibash.
If it's not too much of a pain, could you digibash a Springer from a Ford Mustang mold. I'm having him done by Sculpt-bot over at TFW.