A few more Autobots
Think I should start knocking out more of my AU's "Earth-Strandee" autobots because I keep staring at the full scale chart and wanting to share but not wanting to do so without all the designs being accessible elsewhere. But since this will take a while I might as well share the ones who's designs that have most of their part placement or shapes planned out.
First up is the Chief Medical Officer Ratchet. Love his cranky-ol-coot persona in TFA and MTMTE but he's never been a bot I've thought heavily about personality-wise and so I think his current design might be lacking on characterful details. I am very fond of this Sprinter 316 altmode and the Danish ambulance green/black colorscheme, as I think there are all too many red and white autobots but the cute compact van shape still appeals to me more than some boxy US ambulances. Definitely a design I'll have to look back over because even if It looks good to me I think it doesn't speak much to who/what Ratchet is
Next up is Ironhide, who for years I knew that a bulky, obnoxious SUV would be the perfect altmode for, perfectly briding that Bayverse Pickup and the G1 Van. Not a friendly looking vehicle, but fitting for a tough bot like him. Since his head and arms rising from the bottom of the hood, he'll always face backwards from whereever the car was facing and be ready to stand and fight anyone behind him. Stacked with rivets in the armor, having silly tire-biceps to pump up, and rocking a Movie scarred optic sells his look as this rough and tumble autobot, so I'm very satisfied with where his design is going.
Finally we have Bulkhead, a bot of many talents but who's chief one aboard the Ark is Engineer. He's another big intimidating autobot, even bigger than Ironhide, but who's far more chill and content and much less violent and moody. Design is pretty much a G1-ified TFA look, and admitedly he needs another pass so that he makes more sense, but I am just too endeared by having him be this big boxy bot (I'm a person who actually loves his Legacy figure so maybe I'm just sick). A old swiss army vehicle like the Mowag Duro is probably the best real life design I can use for him that justifies him being so big, and even then I think I'm starting to feel that anti-mass-shifting bias push me towards significant redesigning.
Anyways heres the...van trio? Small medium and large truck squad? Theres some overlap here but the words fail me... Anyway I'll flesh them all out more in due time, after either studying designs from more prolific Transformers fanartists or just finding a similar human character who's design and fashion inspires me. Still, plenty more designs to look through that I'll hopefully actually draw instead of getting obsessed with lore details (Does Ratchet actually have a medical liscense) or voice claims (Nick Nolte, Bob Carter, Norm MacDonald, no further elaboration)












