Post by Zippo on Jul 15, 2011 22:25:16 GMT -5
Well here he finally is, now just close your eyes and imagine he was drawn by Don Figueroa.
He’s supposed to be dark metallic red with black and white filling in the details, a bit like Dinobot II. The “things” on the arms are supposed to be a double barrelled full auto assault rifles firing explosive tracer rounds, they join together to form his rocket that normally sits on his back in both modes (inspired by TMII Cheetor). It’s supposed to be a “rib cage” pattern on the rocket. Those are vtols fans sticking out from his shoulders with his beast modes wings segmented. His chest is supposed to be his beast mode head but drawing that was stupid hard.
Transformation for Beast to Bot goes like this: (also works out very nicely for a toy with very little non aesthetic kibble) Wings fold back and segment (they segment because it looks cool), legs fold down (thigh armor is part of wings), arms fold out of beast chest using the chest itself as shoulder guards, hollow Beast head folds down to become Bot torso (like TM Megs fake one) leaving Bot head in it’s place and tail telescopically shortens.
Beast mode head should have two sets of teeth because of the Bot head within. He should be able to still use assault rifle in beast mode so he can “dog fight” but I didn’t app him that way so he can’t.
I know Dimorphodons and likely most other Pterosaurs were covered in a hair analogue but as a transmetal, he’s only a Dimorphodon analogue and thus gets a scale analogue covering (coz it looks cooler and is way easier to draw).
I knew I was going for a reptilian head for Bot mode right from the start, I tried to make it look natural and robotic at the same time and tried to give him a helmeted appearance since a lot of TF’s have a combined helmet and face appearance. I still think he does better than BW Ravage.
I seem to have a fetish for pistons, I was going to add more to arms and hands but he didn’t get drawn that way in the end, I wonder what Freud would say.
Zippo does not yet know the name for his beast mode but I think this is soon to be cleared up.
Annnddd Goodnight.