The Energon Pub

by **TM fourth_heir** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:58 pm

I've had these guys sitting on my hard drive for months - I finally got round to finishing the colouring.

The Autobot Micromaster Battle Patrol given a "War Within" makeover.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42568595/

by **Tramp** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:02 am

Even though the Micromasters didn?t even exist during the War Within era, those designs are pretty interesting ?what ifs? especially Big Shot. What makes him interesting is that you used basically the same exact vehicle mode as War Within Optimus Prime, just a different transformation.

by **TM fourth_heir** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:32 pm

Glad you like them

They were designed for a contest inspired by the fact that the DW Micros had contemporary Terran altmodes even back then when they couldn't possibly have had them (although the story was going to explain why, evidently).

by **jimsloth** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:39 pm

Battle Patrol was always my favorite micromasters set. Love the sidetrack design. Not sure where sunrunners legs go.

by **TM fourth_heir** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:16 pm

Once his chest has swung up there's hardly any torso left - his legs pivot upwards in a similar manner to the minicon, Makeshift or Cybertron Scattorshot's (I used a little artistic licence - a toy of this design would have big hollows down the inside of his lower leg for his uppre leg to slot into during transformation) finishing up as a boxlike part of the fuselage behind the missile launcher.

News Credits: 2 · by **grimlockprime108** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:54 pm

Tramp wrote:Even though the Micromasters didn?t even exist during the War Within era, those designs are pretty interesting ?what ifs? especially Big Shot. What makes him interesting is that you used basically the same exact vehicle mode as War Within Optimus Prime, just a different transformation.

actually they could have existed in pre-micromaster bodies since the micromasters were supposed to be transformers who volunteered to downgrade their size to conserve energon reserves

by **TM fourth_heir** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:56 pm

Nope - the Micromasters comic made it clear only a handful of them came that route (Bombshock, Countdown and Groundshaker were the only ones specifically mentioned I think) - most of them were newly constructed TFs who had always been that size.