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News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:11 pm

Artist Extraordinaire Giudo Guidi has posted some artwork he did back a few years ago for IDW's Hearts of Steel Transformers storyline, and the feature of his artwork today is Scourge! Scourge was designed to transform into a blimp with giant scary batwings on the blimp mode and a Gatling gun on his head! Check out the concept art below!

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:35 pm

Would love to see more Scourges with Gatling guns on their heads.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:40 pm

Deadput wrote:Would love to see more Scourges with Gatling guns on their heads.

I agree, that's incredibly cool

News Credits: 11 · by **Nexus Knight** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:52 pm

Anyone else think the zeppelin mode looks like Scourge's hovercraft/spaceship mode (streampunk-style) attached upside down to a balloon? I'm not complaining, looks pretty awesome (why don't we have more zeppelin-formers?), but I did want to point that out.

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:08 pm

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Deadput wrote:Would love to see more Scourges with Gatling guns on their heads.

I agree, that's incredibly cool

Just as cool as the time Nemesis Prime (Also sometimes named Scourge hmmm) had machine gun smokestacks.

More Bots should replace their body parts with machine guns for the rule of cool.

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 5:36 pm

Hate to be third party company to make toy out this guy zeppelin mode be massive big maybe complex to transform

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:25 pm

That's pretty awesome. I wish they would revisit the Hearts of Steel designs at some point.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pepsimus · by **Black Bumblebee** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:46 pm

Shouldn't be too hard to create one at home--just take an ordinary Scourge, change the gun on his head, turn him upside down, and attach to football shaped balloon from grocery store. Done!

by **Ultra Markus** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:10 pm

this just shows that transformers would be awesome in any post industrial age ;)^

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 12:13 am

In more updates from Italian Transformers artist Guido Guidi - who will be the special guest at Cybertrome as seen here - we have some additional Hearts of Steel (the IDW alternate universe miniseries) concept art, this time for Decepticon Soundwave! The character was intended to turn into a steam locomotive with megaphone, and includes cargo hold for the likes of Rumble, Ravage, Frenzy, Laserbeak and Squawkbox. Check it out mirrored below!

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:13 am

Wow, that's awesome! A shame MMC isn't doing their Hearts of Steel inspired line anymore, I'd love to see some of these designs done in figure form.

News Credits: 3 · by **Randomhero** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:40 am

Hearts of steel certainly was a thing of IDW being new with the franchise. It's nice to see it's getting some kind of resurrection in the current age of their books

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:17 am

For Scourge, I'm guessing he mostly transformed into the blimp's cockpit, with the rest of the body inflating to full size upon completion of the transformation.

Soundwave, however, looks just a tad too cartoony with that silly-looking oversized megaphone that looks more like a big flower than not. :-P

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:17 pm

That's pretty clever what he did with Scourge.

News Credits: 3 · by **Randomhero** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:38 pm

Sabrblade wrote:For Scourge, I'm guessing he mostly transformed into the blimp's cockpit, with the rest of the body inflating to full size upon completion of the transformation.

Soundwave, however, looks just a tad too cartoony with that silly-looking oversized megaphone that looks more like a big flower than not.

He did, this is was only appearance in that series