This was 100% inspired by Mr. Derrick J. Wyatt. At his TFcon panel, he showed some designs that were destined for the next season of Transformers: Animated. One series included a set of Mirror Universe (note how that is different than Shattered Glass) Autobots and Decepticons. Once I saw Megatron, I knew I had to break out the paints when I got home. The only problem was that I had to go off of my memory (no photos allowed in the panel).
So to the best of my ability, I broke out my Photoshop to see what I wanted to do:
Vehicle mode plan.
Bot mode plan. Derrick's design had mostly white (if I remember correctly), but I felt it needed a little more. Hence the half and half design.
Broke out the tools of the trade:
I stripped out the electronics and made one small modification. Where the speaker used to be, I cut a small piece of styrene and glued it in. It filled in the vent areas so there was not empty space there.
I didn't take many WIP pictures, which I regret:
My Twitter teaser pictures:
