The Energon Pub

by **DavAnthony** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:18 pm

Been coming here on and off over the last few years but with my recent infatuation with the movie toys and seeing some really nice work being done by quite a few people I decided to try my hand at repaiting a movie Prime.

Let me preface this by saying I wasn't thrilled with the look of the robots in the Transformers movie. Then I saw it and I thought they were okay, not great but okay. Still hard as hell to know what your looking at some times. Then I saw the movie again and altough I still wasn't crazy with the designs I began to accept them as not a replacement to the versions I like but instead a different direction. I was down the shore last week and saw the redo of the Robo-vision prime (Legacy, Voyager whatever they are calling it) and decided to pick it up. The more I looked at it the more I liked it but I wanted to make it's deco more movie accurate. I also loved the amount of odds and ends this figure has in it's sculpt. A little paint does quite a bit.

Using stills from the movie really show very little since the designs are still pretty confusing and hard to focus in on one point. So instead of fighting that I decided to apply it to the way I painted the figure to give it a very movie realistic look. I took a few pictures in darker lighting to kind of showcase the look that existed in the movie as well. I also added some realism to the truck mode and also added yellow to the front of the truck to resemble how it looked in the movie as well.

Optimus Prime-Movie

Edit-9/1
He's currently up on ebay for those that are interested
http://cgi.ebay.com/Optimus-Prime-Trans ... dZViewItem

by **Great Atlas** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:32 pm

Very Nice!!

News Credits: 1 · by **Asepticon** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:44 am

Looks real tough. I like it

News Credits: 1 · by **Sherade** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:44 pm

I like it, great detailing going on, but, honestly, movie repaints are beginning to bore me. Not to say they aren't good, just, mainstream.
Dig?

by **Prowl86** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:56 pm

Look! It's Leader Prime's not-so-Mini-Me!

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:39 pm

Loving the scuffed metal look.

by **DavAnthony** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:17 pm

Thank you everyone I'm glad you like the repaint. I'm thinking about doing his sword and an accurate gun to go with him, but need to get some accurate photos of both of those. I'm really enjoying all of these movie customs by people so far but I wanted to do something a little bit different and more movie-realistic.

by **DavAnthony** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:57 pm

I was able to pick up another Prime today to keep in my collection so this one is up on the "bay' for those who are interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Optimus-Prime-Trans ... dZViewItem
Thanks