#manterror

[spoodleydoodley]

G1 Manterror I recently bought an old toy of Manterror, from the Transformers: Beast Wars toyline, and he's pretty cool Then, I imagined what he would've looked like as part of the G1 Insecticon group, and thus came this art~ Hope you all like this Mechanical Mantid

[askvectorprime]

Dear, Vector Prime.

The color scheme of these Commando's is very similar to Nightbird, could this be another dimension they based her on and colored their own bodies?

Dear Commando Curious,

While narrowing down a particular color scheme can be treacherous in the multiverse, I have already had a run in with one incarnation of the Ninja Commandos that used this camouflage.

This team was originally created by the Earth Defence Command with the assistance of Ninja Force and the Spychangers, before they were stolen and brought to life by Megatron and her Predacon sorcery. The original drone bodies were given sparks and names, and became a deadly foe to Pyro Prime and the Autobots.

You did well to recognise Nightbird among them, using her deadly blades to fly through the air or slice Autobot armor into ribbons. Silent, she nevertheless had a way of making her displeasure known. Sky-Byte often found himself the target of her scorn.

She was joined in battle by her newfound comrades, who were:

Road Pig, who fancied herself fast and deadly, but whose eagerness to get into battle made her easy to spot, her jeep mode being loud and her spotlights being bright. She was a rather arrogant bot, and once even argued back at Megatron. Once.

Manterror, an awkward and honestly quite creepy foe who thought that the best way to avoid being seen was to lurk far above her foes, in her orbiter mode. From there she'd rain down devastation using her twin-linked shuriken catapults.

Shadow Panther, a Predacon loyalist, whose skill with stealth more than made up for her sluggish speed. Her vehicle mode was covered with radar-deflecting paint, and many an Autobot found themselves surprised by the sudden appearance of a tank firing vision-obscuring Black Bullets.

Tarantulas, the team's leader, a terrifying many-wheeled riot-suppression truck, whose maniacal laughter could be heard as she unleashed torrents of sticky foam. It may surprise you to learn that Tarantulas used non-lethal weaponry—but she much preferred to take her victims alive, for experimentation.

The five Ninja Commandos could combine, as you can see in that image, and when they did so they showed a strength that was more than the sum of their parts, becoming the sinister, stupendous, sizeable Slugslinger. Wielding all the weaponry of her component parts, Slugslinger was a walking armoury, made all the worse by an impossible aptitude for stealth. I would not have believed my eyes at her ability to find hiding spots in a city, even disguising herself as a building on one memorable occasion.

[tgping]

Bonus print 4 of 5! As seen during the stream today, also streaming later tonight, catch me here at 8pm EST :) manterror!! I gave him tuxedo tails :D still some time to preorder the artbook, just DM me. - - - - - - - - - - #beastwars #transformers #predacon #manterror #mantis #prayingmantis #mecha #robot #insect #tg_ping #idw #kingdom #watercolor #watercolorpainting #painting #igart #instaart #instaartist #scifi #fantasy (at DeLand, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMxw7CpBRsE/?igshid=wpl5bkt90g6q

[autoacafiles]

[lm-g1]

Real-world Predacons? Real-world Predacons.

[tgping]

I’ve sold quite a few of my original Beast Wars watercolor paintings I did for the artbook, and I’ve been thinking I should put the rest up for sale :) I’ve got 12 of the 31 paintings remaining! This is the first group of 4 be sure to swipe through all of them, just DM If interested :D - - - - - - - - - - - - #beastwars #transformersart #wolfang #wolf #manterror #mantis #bonecrusher #terrorsaur #watercolorpainting #watercolor #painting #forsale #igart #instaart #igartist #insaartist #transformersart #animalart #scifi #fantasy #mecha #transformers (at DeLand, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPldmZ2ABA_/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tgping]

Some good news, and some bad news :/ The good news! Bonus mini prints are in!! And they look great! Also good news, can you spot the BONUS bonus print? The bad news, the books themselves will be arriving later this week :( Slight delay there. - - - - - - - - - - - - #transformers #beastwars #maximals #predacons #megatron #optimusprimal #primal #nyx #sandstorm #manterror #bonecrusher #kingdom #idw #instaart #instartist #painting #watercolor #igart #igartist #scifi #fantasy (at DeLand, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/COdhrGRh1iD/?igshid=1m7d6mb0cus7g

[overactiveimaginationhere]

Ironically the most well known user of the devastating ionized energy discs as a weapon of choice, the mantis like Manterror was killed during one of the semi regularly occurring periods of inter tribe conflict between the various insectoid tribes of Eukaris B. Resurrected by the energon carrier wave, his resurrection also mutated his mantis-like body with some lizard traits. Manterror re-christened himself Buzzclaw after he realized that the knives integrated into the gauntlets of his new body were capable of naturally generating new ion discs