The Energon Pub

Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:26 am

You Farkin' rule! You are doing WJ justice, and that my friend ... is tough to do. I LOVE wheeljack!!!

Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:50 am

now thats bad assss right there. I can see a lot of effort in this. Isn't that a vintage model kit too? Old school Lancia, awesome!

Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:42 am

THAT. IS. AWESOME!

News Credits: 1 · Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:44 am

Sonray wrote:THAT. IS. AWESOME!

Q.F.T!
Yeah, you totally rocked Wheeljack.
Too bad hasbro can't see this.
:grin:

Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:46 am

Sonray wrote:THAT. IS. AWESOME!

YES. IT. IS! :shock:

News Credits: 1 · Sat Nov 24, 2007 11:10 am

Wheel_Jack wrote:SEE UPDATES AT END OF THREAD. 11/21/07 THANKS!

I had almost ditched this one, but after working on the arms tonight, he's back on board.
The kit came with marlboro decals which would be kind of cool to have a diaclone version of him but not that cool. eh, we'll see how that goes. the legs and arms come from classics mirage. the head and feet are cast from energon downshift. the feet joints are bionicle. shoulder joints came from classics firebot and cybertron clocker. door flap joints came from classics divebomb. and yes, he tranforms...for now.
anyway here he is.
thanks for lookin'

Really cool stuff. Can't wait to see him done.

Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:12 am

How have I not seen this yet?! I was content with my Cybertron Downshift repaint up until now :-(

Really, that is fantastic. You wouldn't happen to be planning on doing a how-to on this, would you?

News Credits: 1 · Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:40 am

Thanks for the kind words, I have a few updated shots for all y'all. There's still a lot of work left on him.
Catch22, a how-to might be damn near impossible my friend - but I'll see what I can do. It might be a little while though. :wink:

also, I've added a couple of almost finished teasers(bumblebee and cliffjumper...,,and an oldie, to fill out the shot.

cheers guys,
w_j

News Credits: 5 · Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:09 am

wow he looks sweet !!! ;)^

Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:43 am

Now why would you go and do that to us? MORE PICS !!!

You are awesome ...

Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:07 pm

i need to find out how you made that bumblebee so i can re-do my one so that he actually transforms.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:57 am

Done and Done.
back from the dead and on the shelf. I'll add more pictures to my flickr page and post the link on saturday morning.
if you're wondering what he's got in his left hand, take a look at my sig. :wink:

Thanks guys for following this one progress. You've helped keep me motivated. I lost a bunch posts on this when Devastator wrecked the server :roll:

(jk Dev) so if you had a question I didn't answer please let me know.
cheers,
w_j

Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:16 am

Looks brilliant! Awesome work. I can't wait to see the Flickr galleries.

Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:05 am

Amazing.

What do you use for glue?

Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:12 pm

When did that Bumblebee happen? More! Now!

Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:46 pm

Holy ****, I just got a kitbash-boner from just watching that Wheeljack. Sweet jesus in drag, that's awesome! :grin:

Tracks also looks kickass, as well as the BB and CJ.

8-}

I'm going all bonkers, just by the sheer awesomeness those kitbashes pulsate with. 8-}

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:27 pm

Sonray wrote:Amazing.
What do you use for glue?

Testors cement for plastic models, gel super glue, quick steel, quick wood. that's most of them.

Tom_Servo wrote:When did that Bumblebee happen? More! Now!

he's not quite finished but there are a few pictures of him on my flickr page. I broke part of the kit and I ordered another one to finish it off but never got around to it.

Corrupted Rodimus wrote:Holy ****, I just got a kitbash-boner from just watching that Wheeljack. Sweet jesus in drag, that's awesome!
Tracks also looks kickass, as well as the BB and CJ.
I'm going all bonkers, just by the sheer awesomeness those kitbashes pulsate with.

thanks.

more pictures available here - http://flickr.com/photos/7834016@N02/sets/

Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:55 pm

Corrupted Rodimus wrote:Holy ****, I just got a kitbash-boner from just watching that Wheeljack. Sweet jesus in drag, that's awesome!

Tracks also looks kickass, as well as the BB and CJ.

I'm going all bonkers, just by the sheer awesomeness those kitbashes pulsate with.

I'll be leaving now...

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:41 pm

Wheel_Jack, if you do not make Sideswipe I will kill you.

Great stuff, love the group shot.

News Credits: 7 · Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:49 pm

10 levels of awesome. Wheeljack does not get enough love.

Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:02 am

Wheeljack is awesome! Nice work on the custom. You really gave Wheeljack a lot of love. Your pics are great too. Do you have a gallery for this? I can't get enough of your Wheeljack. :grin: