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a bit of a part two of the last page.

yeah.

The Steelheart of an assassin.

without the VHS effect below:

Been a while, not much art has been happening but a LOT of writing (and data sheets, so many data sheets you'd think i was clinically insane). As part of this writing I was finalizing an alt-mode list for all the Transformers in my AU, and I decided to finally reattempt the Ravage design because i just hated how fake and unintteresting the alt mode is. And I'm finally at a point where I'm satisfied

THINGS THAT CARRIED OVER:

Still a big sessile POS that sits in soundwave's cargo space

Still keeps the cable tail because I liked that design trait and it lets soundwave do the TFP shock-tentacle thing when he's in his chest

Still has the extending energy claws, now with articulating fingers more (kinda inspried by Monster Hunter's Odagaron's Claws)

A lot different though, partially because I wanted to more shamelessly wear some RotF inspiration but also because I thought for a while on what a sensible altmode would be. As a cat I imagine that quick traversal and spying isn't too difficult for him even on earth, so any drone or light vehicle wouldn't be much of an advantage. Additionally I wanted an alt-mode that benefitted from direct integration with soundwave's communications van like Ratbat's, which with the roof occupied means he'd have to cram in the boot. So initially some news video production equipment shoved in the back was good enough, with I guess a spare tire or something like a car engine as runners up

Eventually I landed on subwoofers make sense for Soundwave to use, and in addition in robot mode means that, with Ravage Stored, an extra powerful sonic attack can be unleashed straight from Soundwave's chest to blindside opponents. they also have more engaging shapes and surface details than a stack of boxy computer servers would. The only problem is none of the designs were quite shapely enough to both fit Ravage's robot mode and still make engaging kibble, so I did however have to make up a design. I dubbed it the WēBu BEASTBOX (Silly reference-heavy name can't help myself), a big-ass "mobile" sound system that's marketed to fit in SUV's.

Not much more to it than that, but in my struggle to work on Ravage's head design too I ended up with a "mask" covering the scary cyclops eye (complete with faux eyes from speaker discs...kinda just looks like Shattered Roxanne Wolf but its fine). It lets some teeth detail show out upon opening, makes him look a little like Ratbat with the big ol'ears, and lets me play it both ways with an abstracted cat silhouettes to the head while also letting me avoide the difficult parts like snout/nose shapes. Winning! Just gotta clean things up a little more Anyways I'll hopefully be back soon now that I've forced myself to draw again. As a last bonus, some dimmensions for people that can match my geek (I have these for now 87 other bots...as I said, insane)

Infected slayers or something