The Energon Pub

[Jones]

This guy needed some serious work. Way too bland. But now… fixed! I’m VERY happy with this figure now.



Original deco (pics respectfully borrowed from the galleries here at http://seibertron.com):



Here’s the list of things I did:

Metallic silver paint on all guns
Slid off his handguards and tucked them in the opening on his back
Dark metallic grey accents on bot and vehicle (including beard)
Black/Khaki Drab camo pattern
Army green on wheel rims
Red/copper tail lights
Fully sprayed with matte clear coat
Reprolabels Autobot logos on bot mode and vehicle

More pics:






Here you can see where I stored his (ugly) handguards. looks way better without these things.


More more pics:





Thanks for looking. Cheers!

[Hip-Hoptimus Rime]

Beautiful work! Did you use flat black on the tires? They look great.

I like how you hid the hand panels in the hollow of his back. I too removed them, but I keep them jammed in behind his shoulders. Out of the way, but not screen accurate. I like your idea, but I use the wheels on his back to clamp his big rifle in place vertically for storage. What to do...?

[Jones]

Beautiful work! Did you use flat black on the tires? They look great.

Thanks! The tires are actually just the plain black plastic with the Testors Dullcoat sprayed on them. I usually do a flat black on the tires, but in this instance, I didn't have to because I just matte coated the whole thing.

[RotorstormNZ]

Great work! That camo scheme really suits him, and the painted weapons really add to him. Congrats on an excellent job that really does improve a bland toy.

[morphobots]

Looks great, and the hand mod really improves the look of the robot mode.