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Here's a sketch I did of Soundblaster as a recolor of Starscream from the undercooked Transformers toy line called Machine Wars. The toy began its life as the European exclusive Skyquake, and was recolored as TF Universe's King Atlas and, before that, as the Machine Wars version of Starscream.

The thing about this toy is that it is such an incredibly poor match for Starscream. It's dark, somber, imposing, and ominous -- everything Starscream isn't. The toy is a much better match for Soundwave, in my opinion... a match which is enhanced by the presence of a freakin' DOOR ON THE CHEST. Plus, Soundblaster (Soundwave rebuilt by the Headmasters) was already black, so... hello?

(Personally I prefer to call Soundblaster "Soundbreaker" because that way there's no confusion with Blaster AND "breaker" is another word for "wave.")

Anyhow, I've colored this pic as Machine Wars Starscream [link] , G1 Soundwave [link] , Japan-exclusive Soundblaster [link] , UK exclusive Skyquake [link] , and TF Universe King Atlas [link] .

I banged this out in pencil (didn't ink it, just scanned it and adjusted the levels and such), grabbed a stormy sky offa Google, and did some speedlines/rain stuff so that it had some context. Mostly I did this for the color experiments.

Description
Here's a sketch I did of Soundblaster as a recolor of Starscream from the undercooked Transformers toy line called Machine Wars. The toy began its life as the European exclusive Skyquake, and was recolored as TF Universe's King Atlas and, before that, as the Machine Wars version of Starscream.

The thing about this toy is that it is such an incredibly poor match for Starscream. It's dark, somber, imposing, and ominous -- everything Starscream isn't. The toy is a much better match for Soundwave, in my opinion... a match which is enhanced by the presence of a freakin' DOOR ON THE CHEST. Plus, Soundblaster (Soundwave rebuilt by the Headmasters) was already black, so... hello?

(Personally I prefer to call Soundblaster "Soundbreaker" because that way there's no confusion with Blaster AND "breaker" is another word for "wave.")

Anyhow, I've colored this pic as Machine Wars Starscream [link] , G1 Soundwave [link] , Japan-exclusive Soundblaster [link] , UK exclusive Skyquake [link] , and TF Universe King Atlas [link] .

I banged this out in pencil (didn't ink it, just scanned it and adjusted the levels and such), grabbed a stormy sky offa Google, and did some speedlines/rain stuff so that it had some context. Mostly I did this for the color experiments.