The Energon Pub

I am almost finished with the first two alt.s for project decoy from my fan fic I'll post once they are done...

as a spoiler the fall of autobot city to the binal predacons was partialy because of a series of spys that had already infiltrated the ranks of the autobots, ones that once exposed left the question of where did the originals go, to be rescued by an unlikly ally.
(still need some parts for them but...)
Alt Meister is really Breakdown
Alt. Wheeljack is really Slicer

a few new paint aps and viola

the unlikly ally is Swindle whom assumed the name and place of Rollbar, in order to find a way to keep himself alive after witnessing Ravage's decimation of the throttle bots. unfortuantly Swindle didn't know the differance between Rollbar and Wideload and adopted Wide load's colorscheme.

Swindle inorder to prove his worth helps the Autobot defense force find the spys among them

ADF is lead by Ironhide (alt. Prime with minor pain mods and a monstermaskish Prime mask) as a bodyguard the best protection would be to make others think he is prime until they where too close to know otherwise

Prowl - (BTA alert with parts swapped off of Ricochet and Prowl head) Swindle helps remove the exposed Slicer's subspace scrambler and they are able to retrieve the lost Prowl and get him in the body he needs to further the fight,

Streetwise - (alt prowl with Deadend's head modded) acts as the tracker for chasing down the spys

Nightbeat - (I plan on using Alex Kingdom's design for this one) the detective of the group, paired with...

Red Alert - (alt prowl in a fire chief deco with a sideswipe head) the ever paranoid bot could actually be right for a change

Mach Alert - (a police deco of Tracks based on the super mode paint scheme of RiD Prowl and a D-charge head) as the resident scout for the group as well as a celebrated close combat fighter the rookie of the group more than carries his weight

Chase - (bt sport prowl) in memory of the fallen throttlebot Chip assumes this name with his decision to remain bt bonded

the new recruits are also helpful

Hotrod (alt windcharger with smokescreen's head)and Hotshot (still kicking around some designs) the almost second generation versions of Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, always sparring, bickering and trying to outdo each other (in one instance they are sparring and hotrod gets distracted and hotshot takes the shot, hotrod goes to hit him in retaliation and hotshot starts yelling "time out, time out time out!" as they are attacked)

Grifter - (yellow tracks w/ minor paint mods) his constant need to prove he's better than the others with his speed at any cost has gotten him some recognition as a scoundrel, hustler, hooligan and otherwise as a cheetor (pun intended)

Blurr - (redecoed Tracks tropical blue w LeMans stripes w/ cybertron Blurr head) courier for the group looks for evasive and none combat oriented ways of doing his job... unless insecticons are involved

Once they find Jazz it is decided that in his case more strength in needed and is bonded to a Mustang gt body (alt wheeljack w/ meister head and a few pain mods) Wheeljack makes the need for speed a factor in his reformat and is a Srt Dodge Viper (Sunstreaker with few mods) Sunstreaker(bta) and Trailbreaker (alt. Prime w/ swindle head) are recovered

the biggest variable in this witchhunt is Punch/counterpunch who has been missing since the evacuation of Autobot city

okay this project is gonna take a little longer as I will be needing some healing time from slicing open my index finger on my dominant hand... I knocked a knife into my paint bin and didn't find it until it had already exited said finger, straight cut, no tendon or nerve damage just pisses the hell outta me that i did something so care less (and got blood on a fresh white paint job)

okay Jazz and Wheeljack are done just awaiting the decals I ordered to flesh them out and then Pics are coming

I am currently working on Streetwise, the perpetrator of my injury... anyways Alt. Prowl w/minor grey redeco with a modded Sunstreaker/deadend head and to simulate the g1 turrents he came with I have taken the side guns from the Energon combatacon helecopters, I dunno their names, and they plug into the side of his arms as well as drilled a hole in the end of his shockbaton to fit as a barrel for his engine gun

and have hit another cross roads

do I do Blurr or Mach Alert first... I only have one Tracks at my disposal right now





upon inspection of
Armada Hotshot,
Energon Hotshot and Cybertron hotshot the proper evolution would be to D-charge , and looking at the Civic Rumble has the Armada styles harnessed look chest, housed hands and the piledriver similar to his powerlinx cannon again leaves me a D-charge head short of complete...

I need 2 alt. wheeljack heads

one for Slicer and the other for Downshift (still no bleeding idea what to do for Camshaft)

I need a Meister head for Breakdown

Wildrider is almost done

still looking for more Cons for this project
(perhaps puting faces to all 7 Insecticons?) or Runamuck and Runabout

as well as the alt.s to make the mirror imaged Dynobots unleased as the Predacons (read my fan fic and it makes sence) which now that I have a Swindle to work with will have their Slag

and like a chipmunk wired from too much coffee another idea...

I plan on making my namesake out of the Mirage alt. mold

the original vehicle design was a lancia Stratos but... the Ford GT is acceptable, and who knows it might not be too teribly hard to reshell





Vanishing Point, or Vanish is the commander of The Revelators. Prime put Vanish in charge of the Revelators, because he knew he was the best man for the job. Vanish?s past is one of tragedy, he was taken prisoner while on patrol, and made the slave of Ratbat and Mindwipe. They used him to gain access to Autobot strongholds and disarm security measure allowing his ?masters? to lay siege to the unsuspecting, most notably the fall of Praxus. His memories of these times haunted and changed him, making him hate not only the Decepticons but also himself. He was rescued from Mindwipe during a raid on Polyhex. Vanish would return to Polyhex several time during the war, leading teams in to rescue other prisoners of the Decepticons. During one mission he allowed himself to be captured and taken back to Mindwipe. Mindwipe had attempted to place Vanish under his control again, it was at this time Vanish unveiled his new ability, his new tools of the trade, a pair of coberillium coils concealed in his forearms. Each coil can act as an extension of his arm, grasping, lifting & throwing, as well as dozens of retractable mecha fangs that allow him to grip onto any surface and drain the bioelectric energy from his opponent. Vanish would become victorious over his once master by tearing Mindwipe?s head from his shoulders. To his chagrin this did not ease his pain and the voices in his head still echoed for retribution, this is when he learned of the events on Earth, the death of Optimus Prime and Megatron during the siege on Autobot City. Rodimus would lead and Optimus would Return, attempts to return Unicron to power would be made and fail, after the events of the Parallax Horizon the Revelators were formed. The primary duty of The Revelators is to prevent the return of Unicron, no matter the cost. They operate outside the confines of Cybertronian law, and are not officially recognized by The Autobot High Council. Aside from his coils, which can also be rigid and wielded like a sword, Vanish also has several other abilities that aid him along the road to redemption, in robot mode he has a cloaking emitter, in vehicle mode he has a line of sight teleporter that activates once a speed of 88 mph is achieved. His body has a spectral absorption coating that allows him to blend into shadows.

my other choice for alt mode would be a 1968 dodge challenger, Viggo fans'll get this one

here is the blueprint digibash I'm doing for Alt. Mach Alert for my fanfic as well





also as aside note the lightsabers from the figures in the Star Wars unleashed line fit perfectly in the barrels of the wrist guns making him ready for the burning saber attack

I really like your mach alert, but I think if you are going to make the car mode with that much silver (which I REALLY like) you should incorperate it more into the bot mode. Maybe the fake canopy should be silver too to match the real one.

I was thinking that too while sitting back and taking another look the forearms and upper legs siver instead of white and the fake canopy does need some more attention, possibly the panel portion black and the canopy silvered

also here is a quick representation of what the Blurr idea is... I'm really leaning more towards Mach at this point

with Deadend becoming Wildrider I needed a better Deadend so... this was the resulting plan



so Dragstrip from D-charge
Wildrider from Deadend
Deadend from Grimlock
Breakdown from Meister
just leaves Motormaster... depending on how hard it would be to reshell Prime, my intention is for MM to be a Humvee

all of which would be snaked out along side Slicer

Runamuck and Runabout out of Prowls

hmmmn who else could I fill the Decepticon ranks with?

I know what you mean about trying to fill out your Decepticon ranks, I've got lots of space on my shelves for Decepticons at the mo and i've reached a crossroads, so far ive got.....
Insecticons-
BOMBSHELL- made out of a RICOCHET
KICKBACK- a repainted DEAD END
SHRAPNEL- a slightly modded RAVAGE

Cassettes (alongside ravage)
RATBAT- a repainted and modded SHOCKWAVE
FRENZY + RUMBLE- repainted WINDCHARGERS

Stunticons
BREAKDOWN- a WINDCHARGER repaint, until MIRAGE is released
DEAD END- a burgundied DEAD END
DRAGSTRIP- a yellow TRACKS
WILDRIDER- based on SILVERSTREAK

Officers
STARSCREAM- another SILVERSTREAK repaint
SHOCKWAVE- an ever so slightly modded er, well.....SHOCKWAVE
SOUNDWAVE- a repainted american release SKIDS

Hope you can get some inspiration from this.......you'e certainly helped me out.....I'd completely forgotten about the Battlechargers

KEEP ON BASHIN'

PS I must get a digital camera and post some pics.

When I can get my hands on another Grimlock, Windcharger, Swindle, Meister and Skids I'm going to duplicate my Dynobots in their tainted forms of the Predicons

Grimlock - Razorclaw
Slag - Tantrum
Sludge - Headstrong
Swoop - Divebomb
Snarl - Rampage

okay okay I had some spare time for a change and got a little done...

first up... Alt. Streetwise


used Sunstreaker's head and Prowl's body minor redeco and added alot more attitude



I find the fingerless glove look coupled with the arm guns make him loads more intimidating




stripped most of the red from the shock stick but left some red to give the idea that he's not the good cop... "you have no IDEA of the phrase police brutality... but... you soon will."

sorry no alt mode cause he looks the same as the way he came


Next up Wheeljack... I know he already got the ALt. treatment but it was wrong... at least in my eyes, it's fine cause I adapted the Alt. Wheeljack into the Euro villian Slicer, thus the big f'off sword and why it seemed everytime they turned around the Autobots where holding their ass... "oops we lost the signal... lets make Chip into Prowl..." anyways here is the resurrected Alt. Wheeljack




I haven't finished the full trunk mod but that is where the second engine gun will be stored in car mode



I got the reprolabel set for g1 WJ to flesh out the local mad scientist




you might have noticed his running partner



yeah another hey waitasec... in my twisted hollow darkness I call a mind "Meister" was Breakdown in disguise



upon coming online after the exposure of Slicer and Breakdown Jazz came online and wanted a body that'd allow him to have the physical power he needs for his job of Special Ops.



again the aide of reprolabels allowed me to put the finishing touches on Jazz



also made a longrange rifle by combining the engine and sword



incidently like my previous notes on this Jazz's arms pivoting 180 degrees makes for his G1 sonic attack


last one for now...

Wildrider...


Deadend yeah right... don't get me startd, may look like just a head swap and pain deco... I took the arms feet and upper legs from sideswipe giving a dominant grey and black without the unnecessary red and rust, not too hard but not easy either, many many moments of cursing and pinched fingers involved...

I like that Jazz alot! I'm kinda surprized you didn't do the chest/roof mod on your wheeljack though. Would have made him look That much more G1.

the existing chest already has a very much g1 look at the shapes involved vs. the g1 paint

or I didn't think of that...

either way I'm pleased with the results

I had already planned on using Rumble for Alt. Hotshot and since the design changed I had to rethink a few things, right now I'm thinking of something close to this...




also here is the idea for Breakdown



and Slicer

That Jazz is great! I never knew how well it could work on that toy--I just always liked the way he was configured as the RX-8.

Before I made wheeljack, when I had a headless Meister and bodyless Wheeljack I was going to make the Omnibot Downshift and make Omnibot Camshaft out of Deadend using the trunk mod then I'd have all the Omnibots... but I like Jazz and Wheeljack better and it opened up my head for the Stunticons still lacking a Motormaster I was hoping to figure out something for the Alt. Prime but nothing really strikes me yet...and I still need more cons to offset and balance against my Bots the next cons I'm planning are the Insecticons all seven of them and the mirror mirror versions of the Dynobots being the Predikings

this is my tenative idea for Alt. Motormaster

okay here's a rework of the Motormaster idea using the prime mod...

Nice work, VP... looks like we're in store for some treats. Oddly enough, though, that first Motormaster of yours (the Tracks head on Prime body) actually reminds me more of Clench (or Colossus if you're that way inclined)...

y'know now that I think about it... your right... could even be Octane too hmmn ol' Optimus seems to have alot of potential

awsome! that wheeljack is amazing

I'd love to see the trunk Mod your doing for Wheeljack's extra Gun I want to doo it for SS

it requires doing the Deadend trunk mod to allow it to open, during my furvor to cover my bloodspots on the white scheme I inadvertenly painted the inside of the rear window so I ended up covering it with several layers of silver foil to make the vented rear window of the G1 one and it helps conceal the gun

first I shaved off approx 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch from the handle of one of the engine guns and in the blank area under the trunk and rear windo dremeled out the area barrel facing forward with the handle almost restin on the back of his head