Had trouble with my SD card reader last week, so it took longer than expected to get these up - and I have a couple more now (not comic pages) that haven't been scanned.
I'll note that the colors are a bit wonky in them because I was using the colored pencils that came under my hand for the most part, but I think it gets the point across.
s113.photobucket.com/albu...ace001.jpg
s113.photobucket.com/albu...ace002.jpg
s113.photobucket.com/albu...ace003.jpg
The new truck mode is essentially unchanged visually, and the only major difference from these drawings is having the wheels up on the outside of the shoulder joint but still inside the fender/stacks, though the ankles are considerably different now and there's a stubby silver cone on the back of each wrist - the left one opens like Dick Tracy's wrist radio and holds the camera he uses for video conferencing, the right opens so it faces along the axis of the arm outwards and has multiband, long range communications antennas in the dish side. There may or may not be a pair of hip-danglies like the recent Macross variable fighters, housing a winch and grapple launchers - they're in the current legs, but there may not be space again in the revisions - the truck mode was longer than I wanted, which is why I'm still messing around with the legs.
Speaking of which, here's a snapshot from Blender, of the new design. I framed it to exclude the left hand and legs because there is no left hand, and I'm redoing the legs. The kind of scaffolding thing over the face is a deformation lattice for animating expressions, though with the mask closed there's not a lot to see - the spike off the back of the helmet is a lever to operate the mask, as the model is designed as if for a Voyager-class toy - though with the trailer I have in the newest unscanned drawings, it would be more like Supreme - basically, take G1-Japans Star Convoy, add G1-Europe Thunderclash's (Machine Wars Optimus Prime, a KB Exclusive in the US) engine pods on top, and instead of a little bitty cab that turns into Star Convoy's forearms (yes, the entire truck cab - the trailer is THAT big) have a front/chest slot like G1-Jpn Star Saber, or TF:Armada Overload for Wave Convoy's truck form. It's not a functional combat unit, too bulky and uncoordinated and poorly articulated at the ankles, and in continuity it's owned by Takara's Marketing and Promotion department, but it probably looks more like original Prime than Wave Convoy himself all things considered, though with big ol' treads hanging off the outside of each upper arm. Still, you can't be a Convoy without a trailer, and since Powermaster Prime that pretty much also requires an armor mode. The practical use of it is that it has two airlocks with standard 6ft Trekkie docking rings and an engine room/crew compartment big enough to stand up and stretch in the upper forward trailer/Wave Amplifier Convoy backpack, and the mostly dead-space legs can be converted into very large cola/uncola tanks to fuel the trekkie warp coils hidden inside the dummy jet engines. Takara Marketing is going to send their staff alien to meet the Miranda coming back, you see, espescially with the revisions to that concept and my plot plans stemming from the suggested name change for the captain to April Roberts from the 12/12/2012 thread.
s113.photobucket.com/albu...ewWave.jpg
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
I'll note that the colors are a bit wonky in them because I was using the colored pencils that came under my hand for the most part, but I think it gets the point across.
s113.photobucket.com/albu...ace001.jpg
s113.photobucket.com/albu...ace002.jpg
s113.photobucket.com/albu...ace003.jpg
The new truck mode is essentially unchanged visually, and the only major difference from these drawings is having the wheels up on the outside of the shoulder joint but still inside the fender/stacks, though the ankles are considerably different now and there's a stubby silver cone on the back of each wrist - the left one opens like Dick Tracy's wrist radio and holds the camera he uses for video conferencing, the right opens so it faces along the axis of the arm outwards and has multiband, long range communications antennas in the dish side. There may or may not be a pair of hip-danglies like the recent Macross variable fighters, housing a winch and grapple launchers - they're in the current legs, but there may not be space again in the revisions - the truck mode was longer than I wanted, which is why I'm still messing around with the legs.
Speaking of which, here's a snapshot from Blender, of the new design. I framed it to exclude the left hand and legs because there is no left hand, and I'm redoing the legs. The kind of scaffolding thing over the face is a deformation lattice for animating expressions, though with the mask closed there's not a lot to see - the spike off the back of the helmet is a lever to operate the mask, as the model is designed as if for a Voyager-class toy - though with the trailer I have in the newest unscanned drawings, it would be more like Supreme - basically, take G1-Japans Star Convoy, add G1-Europe Thunderclash's (Machine Wars Optimus Prime, a KB Exclusive in the US) engine pods on top, and instead of a little bitty cab that turns into Star Convoy's forearms (yes, the entire truck cab - the trailer is THAT big) have a front/chest slot like G1-Jpn Star Saber, or TF:Armada Overload for Wave Convoy's truck form. It's not a functional combat unit, too bulky and uncoordinated and poorly articulated at the ankles, and in continuity it's owned by Takara's Marketing and Promotion department, but it probably looks more like original Prime than Wave Convoy himself all things considered, though with big ol' treads hanging off the outside of each upper arm. Still, you can't be a Convoy without a trailer, and since Powermaster Prime that pretty much also requires an armor mode. The practical use of it is that it has two airlocks with standard 6ft Trekkie docking rings and an engine room/crew compartment big enough to stand up and stretch in the upper forward trailer/Wave Amplifier Convoy backpack, and the mostly dead-space legs can be converted into very large cola/uncola tanks to fuel the trekkie warp coils hidden inside the dummy jet engines. Takara Marketing is going to send their staff alien to meet the Miranda coming back, you see, espescially with the revisions to that concept and my plot plans stemming from the suggested name change for the captain to April Roberts from the 12/12/2012 thread.
s113.photobucket.com/albu...ewWave.jpg
- CD
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows