The Energon Pub

Dear God above, I HATE this movie. There is NOTHING good that can come of it. Actually, I mean the movie movie toys. The others (Robot Heroes, Target Energon repaints, ect. Those are awesome) are just awesome. But the movie toys aren't worthy to be scrap.

...Or are they? I got movie Blackout, thinking he'd be awesome. He wasn't. He was out of the box all of 10 mins before he went under the knife. I'd already planned to put a Snow Cat head on him, and maybe change out his hands and feet. As it was, I yanked out the entire arm assembly and replaced it with Evac (a scrapped BW Silverbolt project. Don't use spray paints!) Hollowed out the chest and put in Snow Cat's head, the replaced the feet with Lazer Prime's.

I started painting and went with an urban cammo, but I didn't like the way that looked. So I figured with a name like Blackout, what other color could he be? Fortunately (Thank You, God!) the plastic wasn't vynal based, so it stood up to enamel high gloss black paint.

So, He's in the middle of being painted. I just need to get some other colors on him. I was thinking maybe silver and teal. Any thoughts?

Looks good so far, I like the use of Snowcat's head

I just can't share in your opinion,sorry,but i really like everything about the movie and it's toys.

rhinox555 wrote:I just can't share in your opinion,sorry,but i really like everything about the movie and it's toys.

Opinion that Blackout looks better kitbashed, or opinion that the movie is trash?

Thanks Skullgrin!

'bout the movie,the kitbash is...well i can't put my finger to it,what kind of paint di you use,cause it looked like you forgot to ungrease the figure first.

High gloss black Testors enamel. He's far from done though.

Yeah,enamel tends to look bad,i reccomend Tamiya spray paint.

Can that guy still transform? Good luck with the kitbash.

Have to say that I really like most of the movie toys, and Blackout is one of my favorites.

Oh yeah. He is still 100% fully transformable.

Finished!

Looks nice dude, much better than the first couple of pics!

Thank you! Yeah, I pulled a doomtron on this one, I painted him twice. I should have gotten some WIP pics from the beginning, but I only took some when I started in with the black, and I know it really POed some people. The Urban Cammo didn't look good and I learned an important lesson: turn the flash off when photographing gloss.

TM2 Dinobot wrote:I learned an important lesson: turn the flash off when photographing gloss.

much better. I always said with a name like blackout and the fact that he's supposed to be all stealth and whatnot, he should be black.

did you use the classic Optimus/ or Magnus's arms for the arms?

That head would be good on Movie Blackout instead of the BW-Inferno like head

Nice work!!

Da Tran Man wrote:did you use the classic Optimus/ or Magnus's arms for the arms?

He said he used Cybertron Evac.

Lol, your version of Blackout looks good enough for a Movie cartoon

Greyryder wrote:

Da Tran Man wrote:did you use the classic Optimus/ or Magnus's arms for the arms?

He said he used Cybertron Evac.

ohh. When I looked at the shoulders it had the similar "wires" as the classic version

Thank you guys. I've found the reactions on this one more fascinating then anything else.

Thats pretty cool work, even though I'm a little iffy on the paint. But then it's yours, so you do it the way you want to. I'm going to attempt my very first kitbash on a movie Blackout, coincidentally. I want his legs to look more like they did in the movie, with the quasi avian look.Would you happen to have any suggestions on how I might go about it without totally destroying the figure?

Wow. Well, I'll tell you what. I was kind of skeptical of how this wold come out at first, but it looks really great! I'm almost surprised it transforms, too. I think its kind of ironic how you used Evac's arms, since Blackout was remolded into Evac

Wow, never realized that this got back up and running.

Repair Bay wrote:I think its kind of ironic how you used Evac's arms, since Blackout was remolded into Evac

Yeah, the irony of that wasn't lost on me either.

Kryptokron wrote:Thats pretty cool work, even though I'm a little iffy on the paint. But then it's yours, so you do it the way you want to. I'm going to attempt my very first kitbash on a movie Blackout, coincidentally. I want his legs to look more like they did in the movie, with the quasi avian look.Would you happen to have any suggestions on how I might go about it without totally destroying the figure?

I can sum up my advise in one word: Don't. Blackout is by far the crappiest Transformer I've ever had the displeasure of spending money on, beating out the wave 1 Titanium Megatron, hands down. I did everything in my power to fix this blasted mold, and this is the best I could come up with. So honestly, you can try if you want, but Blackout's legs are like the Winchester House; it has pieces that do nothing.

I appreciate all the great comments guys. It's been a while, and even with all the negative reaction on my choice of paint, the compliments shine through.

that could be repainted as armada cyclonus and look reeeeeeeally good. but it looks reeeeeeeeeally good anyway.

TM TM2 Dinobot wrote: The Urban Cammo didn't look good

any pix of the urban camo 1? it sounds ok

Thundercracker Prime wrote:that could be repainted as armada cyclonus and look reeeeeeeally good. but it looks reeeeeeeeeally good anyway.

TM TM2 Dinobot wrote: The Urban Cammo didn't look good

any pix of the urban camo 1? it sounds ok

You can see some of it in the first set of pics. The blue/blue gray.