The Energon Pub

Hey so I'm looking into starting customizing some of my transformers figures, so I heard from someone here on the boards that told me to kind of do what I want would be to use styrene, I was just wondering if anyone on here has used styrene and could maybe give a beginner some tips on how to work with it and use it or if styrene is really what I need to use for my customization. I'm wanting to make my hasbro leader class Grimlock and turn it into a screen accurate leader class version and also make it transformable. I know there's a lot of curves and grooves and details involved that's why I'm wondering if styrene is really the right material to use for it. So any help and tips would be appreciated, thank you! Also the picture down below is what I'm trying to do.