The Energon Pub

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:36 pm

Cobotron wrote::APPLAUSE: GREAT SHOTS!

Bye bye accessories. See when I see ya.

Thanks

I did have a lot of fun taking the pictures and the mace of all things may be my favorite. I'm especially happy with the pic of the loose chain.

EDIT: and now they are all on the previous page - every time :roll:

News Credits: 15 · by **galvatron00** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:55 pm

NOOOOOOOO!!! Accessories for everyone all the time!! :lol:

Great shots man!! GREAT SHOTS!!

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:03 pm

Great shots! The sticker symbols don't look all that bad, not overly noticeable.

I love the Mace. Megatron needs a mace weapon more often

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:14 pm

itscramtastic wrote:NOOOOOOOO!!! Accessories for everyone all the time!!

Even if I wanted to use all his accessories at one time, it'd be impossible. Just too many.

itscramtastic wrote:Great shots man!! GREAT SHOTS!!

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Great shots!

Thanks guys :DANCE:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:The sticker symbols don't look all that bad, not overly noticeable.

In person they look good, I just noticed the edges in high res images.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I love the Mace. Megatron needs a mace weapon more often

I agree, but maces are hard to pull off correctly at retail budgets (the recent sharkticon comes to mind). The chain feels impossibly fragile and the articulated version looks clunky and would add to the parts count and manufacturering cost. But yeah maces are cool and there's always the ones on the end of poles ;)^

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 5:58 pm

Just a couple tank-bros repping the same maroon 8-)

:hang ten:

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:06 pm

carytheone wrote:

Just a couple tank-bros repping the same maroon :hang ten:

Tank us on bro, we dare you

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:09 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
carytheone wrote:[img]Tank_Eyed_Bros.jpg[/img]

Just a couple tank-bros repping the same maroon :hang ten:

Tank us on bro, we dare you

Flywheels is having enough problems as is...

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:27 pm

I don't normally go for post processing...

...but...

I may have a bit of a Starscream fetish, but I think Thundercracker may be my favorite.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:27 pm

Fantastic! :APPLAUSE:

Good job on the post. You did that in gimp? Or does the Mrs. have P-shop?

Either way, yer hired, DUDE! ;)^

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:41 pm

Cobotron wrote:Fantastic!

Good job on the post. You did that in gimp? Or does the Mrs. have P-shop?

Either way, yer hired, DUDE!

Gimp but Mrstheone does in fact have full blown photoshop and light room. The latest gimp is very powerful and I learned a couple simple but useful things today. I also like to stay true to my cheap ass trailer born roots.

Thanks, I'll take the job! I do all her "shop" jobs (in gimp) and she actually gets paid for them; I get TFs :lol:

She's lucky I enjoy photo manipulation :twisted:

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:19 pm

I picked up Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Shockwave yesterday and he is everything I wanted him to be.

I love all the extra parts he comes with and have been having a blast with trying to find different variations of use. I mostly like "drone" mode. I imagine the drone follows Shockwave around like a puppy always ready to power up his master, but when all is quite he spends his time blasting cyber-roaches and what not in the lab.

Can't say I much go for Hobgoblin mode, but here it is anyway.

I don't take this **** too seriously and looked up a cheat code. Found big head mode!

Back to the bits and pieces, I did find a neat way to use most of it as a jet pack. I mean you could use all of it in the same manner, but here's my take.

And from behind.

I love that little hose. I plug it in where ever Shockwave needs to redirect more power.

Might as well go crazy with super powered up psycho Shockwave!

Other than the core robot my favorite mode is the combined mode, but I do a thing that's a little different with the wings. Makes it looks like one of those battle ship stages in the old 8/16 bit side scrolling shooters.

Why not go all in?

Finally, I know there is a lot of complaints about his price point and size. I'm sure happy with the size, but I get the price complaints. When I first heard there was going to be a "leader" Shockwave I was bummed because the previous two line's leader class figures (with a few execptions) didn't scale with anything. I'm probably one of the few that like that the core robots were voyager sized. Reminds me a lot of the evolution leaders from PotP, only better. To me Shockwave is perfectly scaled and comes with a ton of fun bits and pieces. Oh, and that light piping, amiright :HALUC:

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:33 pm

You are right!

About ALL of it!

;)^

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:36 pm

Cobotron wrote:You are right!

About ALL of it!

You know it's funny, I feel right. One more thing about the size class. I feel the alt mode is where the "leader sized" comes into play. That thing is huge, dense and heavy! I like it a lot, all of it

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:45 pm

We were talking about the complaints from thebabydom fandom about this guy and I have this to offer.

If everybody would stop expecting Transformers to be what THEY want it to be, and just accept them for what they are, they'd have a hell of a lot more fun.

*steps off soapbox, but takes a bow*

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:52 pm

There is too much info and reviews out there to ever truly be disappointed in a Transformer. Unless you just got into this hobby yesterday you should only ever be disappointed in yourself for buying a figure without doing your homework. It's like people forget they have the option to not buy a thing. Like I won't be buying MP44 or the Siege leader Prime figure and quite frankly I like when there are things I don't want.

I'm the same way with games. I enjoy or not enjoy them for what there are, not for what they are not.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Feb 04, 2019 8:25 pm

Love Leader TC

And Cobo and I talked about the leader price point on the last podcast! I think the consensus was we far enjoyed smaller, well done and denser figures on the whole if it fits!

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:05 am

You know what they say about potato chips and post processing....

isn't that true about something else...

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:13 am

THAT

IS

DOPE!

Looks awesome!

Did you superimpose the subjects on a background, or just tweak the actual background?
Def looks like space.

If I may, More strs in the black of space!

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:25 am

Cobotron wrote:THAT

IS

DOPE!

Looks awesome!

Thanks! Worked on it for a while.

Did you superimpose the subjects on a background, or just tweak the actual background?
Def looks like space.

If I may, More strs in the black of space!

Well a little bit of both. It is the actual poster board back ground, but first I shopped out the flight stands, then added a layer, cut the figures out and pasted them on the top layer, then tweaked the **** out of the background layer to make it look like space, then I did a little dodging on the top layer to make the figures blend a little better. Overkill? :-?

I considered adding more stars, but I didn't want to take away the focus. I wanted more of a distant galaxy look.

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:07 pm

Guess I'll drop this nonsense here for posterity.

The Shocker!

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:10 pm

As long as you don't drop it in the posterior.

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:16 pm

Cobotron wrote:As long as you don't drop it in the posterior.

Well maybe one at least :twisted:

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:31 pm

carytheone wrote:Guess I'll drop this nonsense here for posterity.

The Shocker!

Forgot to say this in the Awesome poses thread, but damn that is gorgeous!

News Credits: 3 · by **bodrock** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:06 pm

I totally want Doc Shock!! And his kibble could pass for a diagnostic drone too

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:22 pm

bodrock wrote:I totally want Doc Shock!! And his kibble could pass for a diagnostic drone too

The bits are fun to tinker with, but I like the drone idea a lot. With all the 5mm pegs it probably wouldn't be too hard to find some neat looking articulated arms to use.

Underneath on the inside there are two 5mm and 3mm ports as well. Very convenient for flight stands to make it hover. That one pic of Shockgoblin is being supported by a flight stand. Actually the bits are drowning in ports and pegs.

He's a fun toy and highly recommended. Just know what you're going into for the price. It hurt a little bit, but the excellentness of it more than made up for the sting. For me Shockwave will be naked 90% of the time. He is still on my desk in a pose close to the "All are Dead" cover that everyone likes to ape.

Speaking of grape ape, his color is one eyed purple people eater perfect ;)^