The Energon Pub

Love the use of the alternators hands. And a nice choise of colors. Any chance of better pics? Can't really see his face.

Nice work, I like him! I'd like to see better pics however but for what i've seen, he does the job!

I posted this up higher but here you go.

Blimey Charley, that's good stuff...

Now I'll be getting an Energon Saber to repaint into a sword/fold over and make a gun for him in a couple of days so until then he's as done as he can be.

Superion:






Silverbolt:




Air Raid, and Slingshot:




Fireflight, and Skydive:

Now I'll be getting an Energon Saber to repaint into a sword/fold over and make a gun for him in a couple of days so until then he's as done as he can be.

Superion:






Silverbolt:




Air Raid, and Slingshot:




Fireflight, and Skydive:

Now I'll be getting an Energon Saber to repaint into a sword/fold over and make a gun for him in a couple of days so until then he's as done as he can be.

Superion:

That looks so much better now. Brilliant job!

Aerialbots group shot:



Preflight formation:



Jet modes:

Silverbolt:



Slingshot:



Air Raid:



Skydive:



Fireflight:

Superion V.S. Bruticus!





Superion quite proud of himself for defeating Bruticus:

I totally want to do a version of this to my Aerialbots. Couple of questions, though.

1) You appear to be using the cockpit-leg's knee as the elbow joint for Superion. While this works perfectly well for the right arm, do you have trouble straightening the left, or have you done something to the knees to allow it? Or am I just reading the pics wrong and you've just done something else entirely?

2) Do the antennae on Superion's head function as guns in Silverbolt's vehicle mode? Logic suggests that they would, but I can't see them on the pics.

Just for the record, I've just found a way of using the stealthers as suitably articulated arms. They're not quite perfect, but then their leg modes leave something to be desired too. But it would allow you to Scramble City them, as is right and proper. I'll dig out some hands and post a couple of pics tomorrow night.

Ramrider wrote:I totally want to do a version of this to my Aerialbots. Couple of questions, though.

1) You appear to be using the cockpit-leg's knee as the elbow joint for Superion. While this works perfectly well for the right arm, do you have trouble straightening the left, or have you done something to the knees to allow it? Or am I just reading the pics wrong and you've just done something else entirely?

2) Do the antennae on Superion's head function as guns in Silverbolt's vehicle mode? Logic suggests that they would, but I can't see them on the pics.

The answer to question one is I cut the knee caps off of the A10s this is what allows them to go out completely straight. Check the individual pics with Fireflight, and Skydive if you look close you'll see it easily.

Question two's answer is that yes I had originally planned for them to be guns in jet mode. However the fact is that I made them right up against the head and they ended up being right inside the cockpit area. Though I did have to dremel it out some to make the head fit into it.

RodimusVTS wrote:The answer to question one is I cut the knee caps off of the A10s this is what allows them to go out completely straight. Check the individual pics with Fireflight, and Skydive if you look close you'll see it easily.

Ah, I suspected as much; and you're right, now I know what I'm looking for it's easy to spot. To be honest, I don't think it was necessary to cut the entire knee bit off, just the ridge on the outside of the lower leg, and I think that's all that'll be coming off mine.

Also, here's the shots I promised of the alternate arrangement for the arms, using the stealth jets. I used Bruticus hands because the Superion ones have non-standard posts and holes, and don't fit the wrists. As you can see, I'm also thinking of repainting Safeguard to act as Silverbolt's E-D rifle.

i like superion but that bruticus is pretty sweet too

Totally love it

Why would the Tramp in you say that? Surely the Tramp in you would be happy that he had white hands and feet - it's only Supe's gun that was black...

Ramrider wrote:

RodimusVTS wrote:The answer to question one is I cut the knee caps off of the A10s this is what allows them to go out completely straight. Check the individual pics with Fireflight, and Skydive if you look close you'll see it easily.

Ah, I suspected as much; and you're right, now I know what I'm looking for it's easy to spot. To be honest, I don't think it was necessary to cut the entire knee bit off, just the ridge on the outside of the lower leg, and I think that's all that'll be coming off mine.

Also, here's the shots I promised of the alternate arrangement for the arms, using the stealth jets. I used Bruticus hands because the Superion ones have non-standard posts and holes, and don't fit the wrists. As you can see, I'm also thinking of repainting Safeguard to act as Silverbolt's E-D rifle.

So you plan to make Windrazor Skydive? I like the idea of using Safeguard for his gun. Also I'm going to have to try that with the Alternator hands. I was thinking of trying to get an Armada Bendy Prime's Jetgunminicon for his gun, and I'm going to kitbash a new handle for the Energon saber, and repaint them silver, red, white, and black. I'm thinking of trying to find a Requiem Blaster for my Bruticus' BFG. For Defensor when I'm done working on him I plan to use the rescue weapon minicons, and for Menasor I'm thinking of trying to find the Skyboom shield.

RodimusVTS wrote:So you plan to make Windrazor Skydive?

Yeah... I think he looks much better as the Raptor, with Slingshot as the Thunderbolt; they echo the original moulds much more closely, I think.
I can't help thinking about the irony of Air Raid as a stealth fighter, though...



As for your other ideas... I like them. It's kind of a pity, really, that the Rescue Team turn into weapons and the Race Team are a shield; Menasor in particular with a shield seems unlikely. It might actually be feasible, though, to turn the Skyboom into a gun of some sort, with some heavy modding, and (possibly) leaving off Downshift.
I'm also getting the idea of modding Firebot from a missile launcher into some kind of forcefield projector, a la Trailbreaker.

How do you plan to do Defensor and Menasor, anyhoo?

Ramrider wrote:

RodimusVTS wrote:So you plan to make Windrazor Skydive?

Yeah... I think he looks much better as the Raptor, with Slingshot as the Thunderbolt; they echo the original moulds much more closely, I think.
I can't help thinking about the irony of Air Raid as a stealth fighter, though...



As for your other ideas... I like them. It's kind of a pity, really, that the Rescue Team turn into weapons and the Race Team are a shield; Menasor in particular with a shield seems unlikely. It might actually be feasible, though, to turn the Skyboom into a gun of some sort, with some heavy modding, and (possibly) leaving off Downshift.
I'm also getting the idea of modding Firebot from a missile launcher into some kind of forcefield projector, a la Trailbreaker.

How do you plan to do Defensor and Menasor, anyhoo?

You read my mind about the Skyboom. However I'll want to use all three parts for it. As for Menasor, and Defensor I plan on redoing a bunch of E combiner parts. Defensor will be the more uniform of the two with Barricade rebuilt as Hotspot, one of the tanks will become Streetwise as a Mustang Police Interceptor, Firstaid will be the other tank redone into and ambulance, Blades is obviously just going to be a repaint, and the there's Groove who not having landed in a city with a cycle squad has chosen to be a Police search chopper. For Menasor I've decided to give him a much more wide variety of stunts. Barricade will once again be used as the core this time rebuilt into a box styled truck and painted black and silver for Motormaster, Wildrider tired of the Aerialbots and Superion always getting the drop on them from above has decided to grab a stunt jet for his new form, Deadend has chosen that the best way to smash Autobots was as a monster truck built from a loader like I'm doing for Swindle, Dragstrip now has decided to take the form of a jet car built from an A10, and Brakedown will be a hotrod of sorts out of one of the tanks.

I finished the Sonic Saber for Superion.

Over the last 20 years Silverbolt, and his team have had too many Decepticons that he thought he had destroyed reappearing later. So he has decided that he wants to make sure that the Cons he takes out are out for good and will never hurt anyone else ever again. So to that end he has chosen that a gun is no longer the way to deal with them. Since his gun was destroyed with his original form was when he stopped the nuke near San Fransisco he's decided that it is time to look into getting a sword. Having heard of the power of the Star Saber he has spoken to the Cybertronian scientists that developed the first minicons, and has commissioned them to develop a set of minicons for him that would compliment the abilities of his team and become a sword for him. Sonic, Jetstream, and Mach were the result of this commission job using the same technology as the Star Saber, and Energon saber in the color scheme of the Aerialbots. Together these three minicons become the Sonic Saber, a sword sharp enough to cut even the most supposedly indestructible Cybertronian alloys. Making these three in the hands of Superion the most destructive weapon Cybertron has ever seen.

Oh and here's how the hands fit in Silverbolt's bot, and jet modes