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May or may not be powering my motivation to learn 3D modelling with the unhinged desire to make 3D printable models of Transformers characters in the future. Specifically ones that are either really expensive to get toys of and/or doesn't have many decent toy models and/or is difficult to find. OR make toys based on my own design version of the characters that I'm hoping to do??

The idea of just being able to make a figure is pretty sick. And apparently you can get decent 3D printers these days much easier than a few years ago.

I'm curious to hear about y'all's fav characters who don't have good figures/any figures

I know MtMtE/Lost Light Drift and Deadlock are hella expensive, and the TfP Ratchet figure is really expensive on Ebay. And Lost Light Ratchet and MtmtE/Lost light Whirl doesn't have a figure at all but hit me with your characters that deserve a figure/a better figure. I'm hella curious.

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Please consider Transformers with those glowy fiber optic lamp fibers

Aka these bad boys:

CONSIDER

A velociraptor alt covered in these fibers

Minimus ambus with a moustache that can glow.

Massive fiber optic manes

Bots with a glowing mohawk or other hairstyles

Wrist/ankle floofs like those draft horses have

Using these lights to communicate silently

Useful whisker-like ones for small bots like Ravage and/or spies/covert bots who need to hide and crawl in small spaces to feel their environment and gauge whether they can fit in the spaces. Maybe even help slightly lighten up dark spaces.

When Cybertron isn't at war, there are many cybertronians who performed in some way (dancing, concerts, etc) that would outfit themselves with these cables which they would then use (glowing on and off, glowing different colours for different effects, fluffing them out and pulling them in from their body, etc) in their performance choreography.

Thank you for your time.

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"Primes don't party."

... Ma'am he's just a stressed out introvert.

Wait until they meet Rodimus Prime 😂

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I am once again asking Hasbro to give us a The Art of Cyberverse book.

Bls give me a book with the good good concept art I beg thee Hasbro

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So you've all seen this book meme with "mtmte if Rodimus thought about shit for more than a second" which is *chef's kiss*

May I also offer this to you

I'm only halfway through but still fmcbxjxkd

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TfP AU where everything is the same except when Megatron goes to cyberform the Earth it's the Eggman pissing on the moon bit.

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I know I haven't drawn Starscream in awhile and that's partially because I'm kinda redesigning him for my continuities and bc his details and shapes aren't fully ironed out yet drawing him is a bit tricky.

Have some of my sketches.

I'm still not sure about the helmet over the eyes. I kinda miss his eyebrows. 🤔 And I think imma make his bird legs a little more armoured.

I'm just rambling below the readmore. Feel free to ignore 😂

I'm trying to capture his vibes. I want him to have this sort of regal? Is that the right word? Elegant? energy. But I also want him to look powerful, intimidating, and deadly. But I also want to keep him a little more lithe looking because I like to imagine he's a faster mech with more maneuverability in battle. A mech who relies on his smarts and his fast unpredictability. But even though he's lithe he's still fairly armoured and can handle a fair amount of damage. One of the deadliest and hardest to kill mechs on both sides of the war. Right up there with other members of high command.

I also want to include nods to the parts of other Starscream designs.

Starscream's got a lot of stuff going on at once. The fact he's complicated is one reason why I like him. But it's giving me heck trying to capture all that in his design. 😂

I'm slowly managing tho.

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SPOILERS FOR MTMTE VOLUME 8 AHEAD!

Ratchet and Rodimus are Friends?

It’s interesting. There’s a conversation that took place in volume eight of More Than Meets the Eye that caught me a bit by surprise. Some of y’all are prolly way ahead of me on this and it was super obvious to y'all but I wanna talk about it anyways.

Before Ratchet leaves to find Drift he does a checkup on a selection of mechs because, he claims, of the possibility of them being infected by super scraplets.

He checks up on

Rung

Skids

Nautica

Ultra Magnus

And most interestingly: RODIMUS

He proceeds to call Rodimus out on how he treated Drift.

(Also Ratchet defending Drift is very sweet.)

Not going to lie, I thought Ratchet didn’t particularly like Rodimus. Or he just tolerated him. And based on some fan content I’ve seen, I don’t think I was alone in that. This above conversation could potentially even support that theory. That is until First Aid comes in and calls Ratchet out.

And then First Aid drops this juicy tidbit

Note the word “ALL”. Meaning Roddy wasn’t an exception compared to the others. Roddy IS Ratchet’s friend. It could be a recent development or it could be longer term, either way at this point in time they are friends to one another. This means that Ratchet is one of those friends who will be the first to call you out when you're being an ass and I really love that for him. The friend who tells you what everyone else is too hesitant to say.

With this knowledge, looking back it really makes the scene where Ratchet tells Roddy that he voted against him keeping his position of captain all that more impactful in my opinion.

Looking back there's probably a ton of things that hinted at a friendship between them. Like the fact Roddy chose to confide in Ratchet (if I'm remembering this correctly) about the list to get his opinion. That shows a certain value Rodimus holds of Ratchet's opinion.

Anyways I just thought that was neat. And I totally didn't pick up on the fact they were friends until this scene smacked me in the face.