The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by **astig** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:44 am

Hi guys, so here goes. I don't have an Ironhide for my Animated collection so I decided to make one. At first, I thought of just repainting my Sentinel Prime mold into IH's colors but, I'm not too sure the result would please me. So, i went searching online and came across the red pickup truck concept design from the Allspark Almanac 2. I decided to make it! it's not perfect or anything and there are some minor areas that i'd like to revisit sometime but, for now this result makes me happy!

So, here is IH. Basically the back of Sentinel Prime mold with a list of modifications:
-Sculpted Head
-seperated front part of truck from the back part of the toy, then added lego (hero factory?) ball joints to both parts to allow the IH transformation.
-removed the plows
-removed rear wheels and attached it to the legs
-swapped the hands
-added ball jointed "fake" window panels on his shoulder. these fold under the truck in alt mode.
-added stryrene/sculpted the truck to look like IH's alt mode.
-custom cannons
-minor mods and details added to look close to the design.
-painted in IH colors

That's it in a nutshell. Here he is Earth Mode Animated Ironhide. Enjoy and thanks for looking!

here he is with my custom ANIMATED SKYFIRE

MOVIE 1 LINEUP

THE REFERENCE PIC

and some WIP shots

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:03 pm

Color me impressed. Featuring this on the front page after I let others in the lineup get posted too...

News Credits: 1 · by **astig** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:43 am

Blurrz wrote:Color me impressed. Featuring this on the front page after I let others in the lineup get posted too...

Wow thanks very much! i've never thought of this being in the front page. thank you, this really inspires me to do some more custom works!

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:41 am

Dude. Awesome work.

That skyfire would be nice to see some more of too, have you put up a gallery of him yet?

News Credits: 1 · by **astig** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:54 am

RhA wrote:Dude. Awesome work.

That skyfire would be nice to see some more of too, have you put up a gallery of him yet?

Thanks, actually Skyfire is in here too. I posted it in the Extensive mods scratchbuilds forum months ago. it's titled G1 style jetfire til i decided to call him Skyfire after someone suggested it. here's the link viewtopic.php?f=144&t=69436

News Credits: 7 · by **TulioDude** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:20 pm

Thats awesome.

by **Cougartracks** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:28 pm

Looks really great, nice job.

News Credits: 1 · by **astig** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:05 am

Thanks guys!

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:37 am

The Trolls can get mad at me all they want, but THIS IS another reasin ANIMATED Should have been continued! After Prime ends, I hope they pick it back up, because there are just WAY to many questions left un answered.

Anyway, what I like the most about this custom is, givin the proper amount of time, that's pretty close to what hasbro probably would've givin us, huh? That's how good you are!

by **sgt blaze 141** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:38 am

Good work on Both Ironhide And Skyfire. Keep it up!

by **Doubledealer93** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:42 pm

seeing this makes me miss animated :sad:

amazing work man, keep it up

by **freakzero1981** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:46 pm

that ironhide is cute.i like his facial expression.nice work yo. :APPLAUSE:

News Credits: 8 · by **Powermaster Jazz** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:53 pm

Damn nice! I wish they'd make more animated figures. That line ended too soon.

by **prowl123** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:06 pm

I wish there was an Animated Season 4...

Awesome! Who was the bas figure? I know I've seen it before, but I cant think of who it is.

*edit: Nevermind. I didn't look at all of the pics. Good use of the SP mold!

News Credits: 1 · by **Optimus1138** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:49 pm

This is awesome! I love your Skyfire, too!

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:44 pm

My opinion still stands.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:05 pm

Well, I know what to get next if I happen across this in stores, even if it's just a kitbash. 8-}

by **Skullcrunchberries** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:09 pm

Wow, absolutely fantastic. I couldn't even figure out what the original mold was until I re-read the intro post >_>

I love how you managed to give him a nice, bulky look but still keeping him in size with all the other Autobots. Bravo, sir. :APPLAUSE: