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Needing some mental stimulation the other day, I decided to design yet another Transformers fancharacter. To avoid falling asleep two minutes in, it was going to be at least a triplechanger (with the physical toy transformation worked out, of course, because that's how I roll ( Read more... )

It's alive - barely ( Read more... )

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Nearly everyone of a certain age watched Inspector Gadget on TV after school when growing up ( Read more... )

"Dave!" I crowed. "Well, who else would it be? Are you here as part of the overall narrative, or because I've jumped the rails with that last little scene ( Read more... )

The central asymmetry in the previous design was clever, but it just wouldn't work when the pad was being used sideways - as in the train or wyvern modes. Either the central block is going to be able to have to slide back and forth a little - which means more stablisation issues elsewhere to compensate - or it's going to have to be able to rise and ( Read more... )

The traveller sat on the side of the hill ( Read more... )

For those who have been following the design process over the last several years (and the last one in particular), you may have noticed a large orange rectangular section in many of the pictures. Previously, this was just one, and then two, and then four plain orange rectangular prisms (or plates) with the occasional decorative symbol. They were ( Read more... )

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From way back when. My art skills haven't improved appreciably since then ( Read more... )