The Energon Pub

You've requested him many times over, almost as much as the Leader Megs... you've languished over the figure in hand, wishing he could come alive and wreak havoc on your shelves....

The wait is over! I present Blackout, complete with magnetic removable wrist-mounted Gatling gun and EMP Disruptor, multi-position waist/chest minigun, retooled balljoint wrists, and I got rid of those gawd awful panels that stick up on the sides of his arms! Well, they're modded to the side at least. He's now a darker gray-blue and has been give the blackline treatment. I didn't want to dirty him up this time around because I wanted him to look like the PaveLow coptor pic I have at the bottom. The hardest thing about the paint job wasn't on Blackout, it was painting the little diagonal lines on mini-scorp's eyes and the turbine blades where there are none in his claws. Yeah, he's that detailed.

Here's a couple pics but for the rest, you'll have to go to my site!






More pics including miniknock and more!-------> http://www.angelfire.com/mech/jinsaotom ... ckout.html

Another brilliant piece, Mr. Saotome!

How do you sleep at night, hording these skills all
to yourself?! No matter, you've turned a general let-down
into a complete marvel.

Keep 'em coming, tex.

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ooomg. that is amazing! that scorpy is crazy man..just too damn crazy!

That is, like I say to all your repaints, absolutely wonderful!
Do you know why I always say that? Because they're well detailed, movie accurate, wonderfully "edited", & made by you

That's just amazing.

That's all the movie figures now right?
Any plans on perhaps like wreckage some of the other movie figures/game figures?

the purifyer wrote:That's just amazing.

That's all the movie figures now right?
Any plans on perhaps like wreckage some of the other movie figures/game figures?

he's still missing Leader Prime (tho I think its perfect as is, heh), Leader Brawl, and an [in my dreams] made from scratch Voyager sized Bonecrusher, hehe

yep.
you're in a different league.
another gem.

In a league of my own then? Hehe, thanks for the replies!

Yep, I have Leader prime on my desk. Might not get to him till next week as I'm going on a trip tomorrow. Leader Brawl happens when I can find him.

I don't horde my skills, I post all those guides and tips on my site so anyone can have have them! Yup, it's all there in my guides section. The same painting techniques I use on my ML figures, I use on my Transformers. I didn't even take Blackout apart, he's painted entirely by hand and assembled. Stop taking your TFs apart! They cry when you do that.

Yet another brilliant repaint.

You make me want to repaint my own figures, something I have learnt from experience that I should not do.
Damn you.

I bow to the master.

Excellent work, but it does pose a question.

Why do you go to all of this work, just to end up selling them off?

I'd at least keep 'em after all this work...

Autobot032 wrote:Excellent work, but it does pose a question.

Why do you go to all of this work, just to end up selling them off?

I'd at least keep 'em after all this work...

Ah, and excellent question and one I get asked all the time. It's got a multi-part answer too.

First, for practice. My skills improve with every project I complete. I don't stop at just one attempt at a character and try to make the next one even better. I don't want to horde the extras of a character and would rather other people enjoy my work, so I sell them off. Customizing has pretty much become my full-time job now. I can always make a figure again too should I want to keep an extra and quite often I do. So it's a win-win situation for me selling my customs. I get the practice and people get figures they can't, or don't have the time to make.

I'm making dreams come true, hehe..

Wonderful job Jin! You should be working for Hasbro making a movie accurate TF toy line! because the way you do all your work is simply amazing ^_^

Autobot032 wrote:Excellent work, but it does pose a question.

Why do you go to all of this work, just to end up selling them off?

I'd at least keep 'em after all this work...

Have you seen the amount of money he makes off of his customs??? I'd go nuts if I could get my customs to sell that high!

JIN, you da man!

SPC Airborne wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Excellent work, but it does pose a question.

Why do you go to all of this work, just to end up selling them off?

I'd at least keep 'em after all this work...

Have you seen the amount of money he makes off of his customs??? I'd go nuts if I could get my customs to sell that high!

JIN, you da man!

For some true artists (such as Jin), it's not about the money. Just the fact that he can do the work and it's widely accepted is the bigger prize. Money's a bonus, a nice one, but a bonus.

Jin Saotome wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Excellent work, but it does pose a question.

Why do you go to all of this work, just to end up selling them off?

I'd at least keep 'em after all this work...

Ah, and excellent question and one I get asked all the time. It's got a multi-part answer too.

First, for practice. My skills improve with every project I complete. I don't stop at just one attempt at a character and try to make the next one even better. I don't want to horde the extras of a character and would rather other people enjoy my work, so I sell them off. Customizing has pretty much become my full-time job now. I can always make a figure again too should I want to keep an extra and quite often I do. So it's a win-win situation for me selling my customs. I get the practice and people get figures they can't, or don't have the time to make.

I'm making dreams come true, hehe..

So then, you at least keep one of each figure as part of your collection, I take it? (Modified or otherwise.)

Same thing To all your Customs..


"A masterpiece made by a MASTERmind"
"Those are ****ing awesome"
"the best you'll see for ever and for ever"


And all shout with me!cOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Autobot032 wrote:Excellent work, but it does pose a question.

Why do you go to all of this work, just to end up selling them off?

I'd at least keep 'em after all this work...

He sells them off cos he makes a fortune out of them...

That that is Blackout!
That is so very awesome!
What did you use to make the guns on his arms?
Most probably in the link, eh?

Fantastic Blackout! Im pretty sure that it is Warhammer 40k weapons?

How I made all his weapons is in his link, yep.

I do indeed keep a copy of what I really like. But I'm picky so I have to -really- want to keep something.

Thanks for all the shout-outs and compliments too!

How I made all his weapons is in his link, yep.

I do indeed keep a copy of what I really like. But I'm picky so I have to -really- want to keep something.

Thanks for all the shout-outs and compliments too!

Hey Jin! I just joined with Seibertron, and I've been looking at kitbashes for about 5 hours now! I have to say that I love this one! Blackout is by far my fav out of the movies bots, and I really dig what you've done. I do have a question though, and I guess this can be for any one on here. I have been thinking about how to modify Blackout's legs to be more faithful to what I saw onscreen, but keep it transformable.Do you or anyone have any suggestions for me?

WOW man... that's amazing... i'll buy your figures.... hasbro and takara can really learn a thing or 2 from you.

Awesome work. one of my life's little joys is viewing and appreciating Jin's fine custom work.