Dave's Gallery of Robot Art
TF MUSH Characters

    This page has images of the characters I've played on various Transformers MUSHes (Multi-User Shared Habitat, a text VR thing). Mostly of Channel. Images are copyright Dave Van Domelen on the date of drawing.

• Bullet: My Transformers 2005 MUSH character. Almost, but not quite, a workable transformation. 5/18/95, rescanned 2008.
• Revamped Bullet: Bullet as he might have evolved had I kept playing at TF2K5. 3/29/08
• Cowl: Started to really try to get workable transformations designed at this point. His vehicle form doesn't look like any real vehicle, but I think it looks cool anyway. Later used as a Decepticon character on The Lost Years MUSH. 1/12/95
  • Cowl Kitbashes: Also accessible from the Repaints page. Made a transforming Cowl out of Space Case.
  • Cowl-chan: Cute little Superdeformed Cowl. Scary thing is, his eyes are really that big compared to his head. Note that the Decepticon symbol doesn't really superdeform well. 5/15/99
• Channel: My second character on The Lost Years, this one's an Autobot.
  • Robot Mode: A drawing of the robot mode that I did using a basic drawing program. 3/29/99
  • Info Center Mode: Not much of a transformation, eh? Another computer drawing. 4/12/99
  • "Decoy": Mostly scratch-built from plastic pieces and putty (including Testor's Contour Putty, which isn't worth bothering with...too goopy, too slow-drying, too brittle). I used a spare Valkyrie VF-1J head turned backwards with a face built on it for the head, since I wanted to be sure of decent symmetry in the head. Scanned in at double size, the actual size is 2.25" (6cm), a bit taller than regular decoys. The upper legs turned out a little skinnier than they're supposed to be. 4/19/99
  • Chan-chan: Superdeformed Channel. 5/15/99
  • Animated Icon: A six frame GIF animation of Channel transforming. Note that I changed his altmode a little since the one done last April. 1/25/00
  • Headmasters Crash Altmodes: Neale Davidson used the basic idea of Channel in his fanfic scripts for Headmasters II and Headmasters Crash (aka Masterforce II). Channel is a triplechanger in this universe, and in HMC has modes of an airlift helicopter and a rescue van. 12/22/00
  • Another Channel Drawing: Actually my first serious hand drawing of Channel. 2/17/02. Rescanned 4/17/06, at which point I finally realized that the Autobot symbol on his left shoulder is on the wrong facing. Oops.
  • Hand-drawn G1 Altmode: Finally made a serious drawing of the G1 version's altmode. Note that the shoulder symbols retract to show secondary viewscreens. 4/17/06. Drew this for the More Than Meets the AllSpark project, click here for a low res version of Channel's page.
  • Armada Channel with Tuner Mini-Con: My Armada update of Channel turns into a big-wheeled yard tractor, like a monster truck version of Huffer, while his Mini-Con partner becomes a dune buggy with radar dish. Vehicle modes of both. 8/12/02 and 8/13/02.
  • Cybertron Channel plans: Not a full drawing, just some design sketches I worked out in early August 2005. Maybe I'll flesh it out someday.
  • Channel as Flash: One of the AllSpark regulars did an homage to a JLA/Avengers cover using fan characters in place of the Avengers and JLA, and he put Channel in the place of the Flash. So I drew Wally West in a costume based on Channel. 3/30/06
  • Super Robot Channel: Channel re-imagined as a Go Nagai-style Super Robot. Purple background splash added digitally. Inks before some tweaking with a new pen. 2/27/07.