Dave's Gallery of Robot Art - Misc

Last updated: 6/3/06
Exo-Force section added.

Here's where everything else goes. Not a RoboMAC, not a Transformer^TM, but it's either a robot or from a series with robots and/or hardsuits. Trademark ownership will be indicated as appropriate. Images are copyright Dave Van Domelen on the date of drawing.

Exo-Force

Exo-Force is Lego's anime-inspired mecha series, you can see reviews of the toys here.

Hiko: Hikaru's sister, both names translate as "Sun". Shown here leaning against the leg of the Supernova mech.
- Hiko Lego: Built from Takeshi's torso, bits of older Lego minifigs, and Mary Jane's head (Spider-Man set).
- The Sun Devil: Hiko's mech. Built mostly from a Knights Kingdom figure (first series) with some bits and pieces from my general collection. Other views: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Hard Vacuum

Hard Vacuum is a game of WWII space combat in an alternate reality where elements of pulp adventure had an impact on the world. Click here for the unofficial homepage for the game, maintained by its creator. There are no transforming ships in the setting (yet!), these are merely my ideas for what the ships might look like if they DID transform. It's worth noting that due to the vagaries of derivative copyright law, I may or may not have the copyright on these drawings, but that doesn't mean they're public domain. :)

Charger: The first one I did, this is one of the more powerful American ships. I based the head on the flight helmet of one of the aces in the supplement, Science Gone Mad. 7/13/02
Ernmorden: I went for a more inhuman look for this Nazi ship. I've since found that the proper translation of assassin is Enmorden, but it's Ernmorden in the game (and this may be a valid alternate spelling, the game's creator claims it came from a dictionary he owns). Color scheme on this, as on Charger, comes from the ship designs on the Hard Vacuum page. 7/14/02
Cyclone: The Hawker Cyclone is a British entry into the space war, so I tried to give the robot mode a "Tommy" look, and abandoned the color scheme seen on the Hard Vacuum page. I also decided to abandon legs on this one and go with a legless look a la the Syreen in Jovian Chronicles or Jetstorm in Beast Machines. 7/15/02
Interceptor: Russian fighter as a Beast Machines-ish legless floater. Creepier than the Cyclone, because the Russians are using reverse-engineered alien technology found in the Tunguska crater. 6/16/05
Nagareboshi: Japanese fighter as Gundam-y as I could manage. Gundam helmets are based on samurai helmets, this guy's helmet goes closer to the source. The thing on his back is a broadcast power receiver. 6/17/05.

Rumble Girls

Rumble Girls is a comic, now available online, by Lea Hernandez. It's set in a somewhat indeterminate future of nanotech, AIs and a media that's actually more intrusive than the one we have now. Rumble Girls are sort of a cross between soap stars, teen idols and mecha wrestlers. Their training is focused more on looking pretty than on actually knowing how to fight, and their careers can be tragically short...especially if the Suits decide a bit of tragedy would boost ratings.

"'Skins": Raven Tansania Ransom, star of the comic, having a sort of symbolic morph from dream to nightmare, from ballgown to Rumble Girl costume. Heavily swiped from issues 3 and 4 of the comic. 1/31/03.
"Turnover": Another symbolic pic, this time of the way the Rumble Girl industry dumps its old stars. I was later told by Lea that I should have made the costume a lot more over-the-top. Honey Bea is my own creation, for what it's worth. 2/7/03.
Honey Bea's Love Bug: Using the design aesthetics of the Hardskins shown to date, I created an oh-so-cute honeybee 'Skin with butterfly-like wings. 2/8/03.

MST3K

Here's a few bits and pieces of art involving the characters from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

MST40K Revamps of the Mystery Science Theater robots! (Rescanned 7/7/08, couldn't do much about paper that had spent 15 years yellowing, though.)
Crow: "Joel, HELP! Dr. Forrester revamped us!"
Tom Servo: "Actually, I kinda like it!"
Fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion will notice that Dr. Ikari Gendo treats everyone around him like dirt, kinda like Dr. Clayton Forrester does. So I took the natural step and combined them into one, snagging a picture scanned from the manga off one of a bazillion Evangelion webpages and tinkering with it.

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