The Energon Pub

[Flashwave]

In the war against the Autobots, new and unorthodox strategies emerged. One of the most frightening, were the Terrorcons. A marriage of Deathsaurus' adaptive combination strategies with Shockwave's mech-organic cloning. With alt modes culled from a galaxy full of mythological creatures, ion-plasmajet weapons and internal furnaces enabling them to function flawlessly in the coldest, dampest climates, the resulting bots were 9 to 11 ft tall living weapons built to sharpen their internally-superheated claws and jaws not on the armor of Autobots, but the flesh of the humanoids they call their allies. Although currently too unruly, too animalistic, to carry out tactical missions, Deathsauras hopes to eventually mold the team of microcons into not only a team of extermination, but a team of cammandos able to seize assets, fuel reserves, factories, with height clearences prohibitive to much larger Cybertronians.

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Slog is perhaps the only member of the infantry that gets more pleasure in putting things together than taking them apart. But his idea of assembly is one of exploration, a twisted inerest in biology that sees Slog enthusiastically taking thing the broken belts and pulleys of his enemies and hooking them together in ways neither productive nor intended, decorated with layers of their own armor, sometimes scrap, sometimes carved specifically to fit a need. He loves static art just fine, but using a still-beating fuel pump to siwng a pulley is gravy for the little monster.

Slog was the third idea for a repaint, second of the Monstercons, and first one finished after Doublecross. I started this as a way to use up the extra Target Exclusive Abominus figures after I finally managed o piece together the real abominus. Anyone who saw my Beast Hunters Doublecross saw I was thinking about doing Windrazor as Birbrain in his shell colors. But after studiying Birbrain et al, I started seeing the Blight mold in Slog's inner robo's beast mode... and Scowl's... and Icepick's,,, And so Slog sealed the deal for me. Here he is, nice and shiny. I'm not sure this color scheme quite captures what I wanted of the beast mode, but the way the two transform so differetly, I could eiher evoke an accurate beast mode,, an accurate bot mode, or botch both of them evenly. I went for the latter.

To paint Slog, I removed arms from the torso and split the bot legs/beas arms. Base colors gold and black were sprayed from Rustoleum and Krylon rattlecans, with acrylic details hand-painted. Its raher obvious in the face, I need more work with micro-applicators. Because the G1 figures were so plain, and theBH Legion Terrorcons have a surprising amount of molded armor panels, pulleys, and cogwheels, I used additional trim colors derived from G1 stickers and colors from he Doublecross torso to try to blend colorschemes. Enjoy!