TFcon LA 2026 Custom Paint Class Features Transformers ORACLE Figure

ORACLE, a freshly minted original character built from a Studio Series TF One Elita-1, was the centerpiece of TFcon Los Angeles 2026's Custom Paint Class, held March 13–15 at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel & Convention Center.

The class ran under a long-standing partnership between TFcon LA and hobby sponsor Ages Three and Up, which supplied every paint and customization material attendees needed. That all-inclusive setup is the class's defining feature for newcomers: the barrier to entry is showing up, not sourcing a kit beforehand. Ages Three and Up provided everything from primer to finishing materials, making the session accessible regardless of how deep a painter's personal supply bag runs.

What separated ORACLE from a straight repaint was the head. Azim Venksta of Renderform Customs designed and produced a purpose-built new head sculpt to transform the Elita-1 shell into a distinct character. Venksta has been producing hand-made resin upgrade kits and accessories for Transformers figures since 2010 as a one-man operation, and his involvement with TFcon custom classes stretches across multiple events, including the 2024 TFcon LA class figure Skeletal Beast (built from Kingdom Tigatron) and multiple Canadian and east-coast TFcon events. A bespoke head from Renderform means participants were working with a figure that had a genuinely new silhouette, not simply recoloring an existing face.

The Elita-1 base is a deluxe-class figure with clean panel lines across its torso, articulated limbs, and vehicle-mode kibble distributed across the back and shoulders. Those panel breaks are exactly the kind of real estate that rewards careful masking and detail work. Studio Series tooling tends to feature tighter surface geometry than older Generations molds, giving painters defined recesses for lining and flat sections suited to layered basecoats before the new head is set.

TFcon LA ran Friday from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Saturday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 AM at the Burbank Airport venue. Class registration details and session timing were handled separately through the convention. For anyone who took ORACLE home mid-process, Venksta's Renderform store also carries individual 3D-printed kit components from past TFcon class figures, making it possible to source replacement or additional parts for post-convention finishing work.