[MOC] Transformers G1 Cassettes for 10358 Soundwave

[admiral_typhoon]

The moment 10358 Soundwave was revealed with Ravage and Laserbeak, I knew I needed to build the rest of his cassette family!

Rumble/Frenzy/Enemy

The brand new design - I have to thank IG user daylight_neon for doing an early version, which I then reworked into this.
I leaned in more with toy accuracy, especially with Frenzy(Blue)'s colours, and the leg detailing and transformation; I also took a bit of inspiration from the Masterpiece figures - it was also fun to make Enemy, who is quite an obscure toy-only character.
I designed their piledrivers and guns, although unfortunately because of the torso design, partsforming the round tape reels is necessary if you want shoulder articulation; the upper bicep is also a part which is slightly under pressure because of the erling brick - it can be swapped with the stud facing out if you want, although it would make it wider than soundwave's door, and leave a gap in the middle.

Slugfest

He was an interesting one to figure out; I started with Ravage and then I realized I could just flip the way the body/spine transforms, so the outer edges of the cassette would be facing upwards.
Magenta is a surprisingly rare colour, so I worked in the red of his cassette mode into the feet as those pieces do not exist in that colour.

Ratbat/Wingthing

With what I said earlier about the rarity of magenta, I'm still surprised I managed to make Ratbat!
I used Laserbeak as a base since I thought the wing opening hinge was a good starting point, then I took some inspiration from the Masterpiece toy to work in the light grey into the wing and make it stable.
the chest is designed in a way that you can replace the 1x1 tile with the printed decepticon logo one from the Soundwave set, since you get a spare.
Wingthing was much easier to build as orange/keetorange is more common.

I'm working on more cassettes at the moment, and I've made instructions available on rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/users/Admiraltyphoon/mocs/

Edited 20 hours ago by admiral_typhoon

[Mandalorianknight]

This is incredible, they all fit into his chest compartment?

Happy to see Enemy, Wingthing, and Slugfest mentioned. Any chance you're planning on doing Squacktalk, Beastbox, or his other obscure casseticons?

And of course, obligatorily, FIRRIB forever.