#(when i was showing screenshots of tfp to my military vehicle guys they kept commenting how shockwave was a strangely big tank lmao) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

whatudottu · 1 year ago

Text

Do you ever think about the differences between our cars and planes and think about how they'd apply to cybertronian physiology?

I'm by no means an expert on anything mechanical nor engineering but I at least know the very vague basics. And by basics I don't fully mean 'well one's on the ground the other flies' stuff I mean stuff like how one's alt changes their root's armour.

Like, if you pop open the hood of a car you can through all the machinery see the ground below, and depending on the car you can see bigger or smaller gaps. Planes of all sorts are practically surrounded in outer plating, the only gaps being along servos and if you've got a jet you get that extra little intake. And tanks are all around a complete hull, and in fact kinda come in multiple hulls strapped together.

And considering that the scale relative to one another (car -> tank -> plane) it would make sense that fliers' sizes are quite similar to their alt modes, the interconnected machinery in tank joints just extend for a bigger rootmode, and civframe grounders would puff out their plating so as to not be completely tiny.

I mean I'm not an expert on vehicles but wouldn't that be pretty cool?

#transformers #maccadam #my favourite size difference between cybertronians is tfa since (even if the sizes weren't like consistent across scenes)#the larger size of war vehicles and the smaller more commercial use of civilian vehicles seems to be idk if 'realistic' is the right word #i guess the suspension of disbelief isn't pushed because 'oh ya totally a bomber jet mode can hide a towering beast of a mech'#nor is a motorbike like idk 3-4 times the size when it stands on two feet #(i mean technically it's not perfect because prowl is not smaller than bumblebee but that's why it's a suspension of disbelief)#it's also a reason why i think the twink version of shockwave while he was still a tank makes sense to me #because tanks are surprisingly smaller than what you think they'd be (more so compared to jets and stuff)#so shockers being a thin lanky bot with a huge separation between his tank kibble just makes sense to me #(when i was showing screenshots of tfp to my military vehicle guys they kept commenting how shockwave was a strangely big tank lmao)

21 notes · View notes