I've Been Neglecting To Share The Photos Until Now, But I Finished This Pal A Few Days Ago

I've been neglecting to share the photos until now, but I finished this pal a few days ago

They were made as a birthday gift for a friend, and said friend likes pigeons and was having an MLP themed party so I combined the two concepts together ^v^

The working name for this fella has been Sparklebutt, and there's not a single thought behind those eyes (as signified by a rattle placed in the head)

Also I got a few bonuses for ya:

The initial drafts for the project (not the proper planning sheet, just me trying to visualise what I wanted to do first)

Plus some interesting progress photos

And a delightfully funny (perhaps mildly cursed) picture from the end of the completion photoshoot :]

Knockout's trip to the aquarium!

I mainly kept him in vehicle mode for this excursion since I hadn't fully gotten the hang of his transformation yet, but I still think the photos are quite fun :]

I made a plush of Lucio's frog appearance as a (very belated) birthday gift for a friend of mine :D (We know each other IRL, but you may have seen him around here as @lustsright-handman)

In terms of the plush's features, the backpack and headphones can be removed as shown in the photos. There's also a squeaker in his chest! (Alongside the usual plastic pellets in the hands and feet)

So the other night my brother and I started brainstorming a somewhat Choo Choo Charles inspired Thomas & Friends AU where almost everything is the same, except the trains have legs...

And I've done a bit of concept drawing

The point of these sketches were basically just to flesh out the proportions/structure of a handful of the character's hypothetical legs

I've also decided to give each type of vehicle legs that match a general species group, such as: The mainline steam engines will have mammalian legs akin to big cats or dogs (e.g, lions, wolves, foxes, etc), diesel engines will have somewhat bug-like legs, narrow gauge engines will have hoofed goat-like legs since they generally traverse mountainous areas, flying vehicles will have avian (bird-like) legs, water traversing vehicles will have fins or flippers, and road vehicles' legs will likely fall into a more ambiguous species category

There are a few exceptions to this rule, such as Duck having avian legs (I couldn't resist taking his name literally) or Salty having reptilian legs with webbed feet, but for the most part the characters will follow this species category rule

As for the amount of legs the engines will have, that will differ depending on the engine's size. Tank engines and standard diesels would have 6 legs each, bigger mainline engines would have up to 8 legs (12 with a tender coupled), and narrow gauge engines would typically have 4 legs.

The biggest exception to this rule would be Mighty Mac. Since they're conjoined twins they have a set of legs each, making them the only narrow gauge engine to possess 8 legs. Plus all of their limbs are front legs with opposeable thumbs, another anomaly among engines in general.

Since this has been an unusually text heavy post for my blog, I shall leave you with two bonus (very rough) sketches:

Here we have James in a pinup-style pose (my brother's suggestion) as well as Thomas and Percy hanging out on a shed roof after somehow fining a way up there

Progress update on the Cy-Kill plush: I've got a little more to do on the internal hand-sewing side of things, then it's assembly time!! :D

Thanks for the tag! Might as well give this a go

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