iron worker drones lol

 

The Hybrid Series Mode! The mode nobody asked for, Obesitus Prime.

 

grapple in his 3rd mode heavy construction crane lol

 

Possibly been done before, but I use this as the main alt mode for Soundwave. I feel its more reminiscent of the original cartoon appearance, the figure is better overall without the rocket pack things, and as a comms pylon, its totally appropriate for Soundwave, and realistic as something you might see around Cybertron.

 

Yo dawg. We heard you like swords and guns....

 

This. This is what siege is. This is the epitome of siege

 

Ironworks in a Space-freighter mode

 

Ribbit.

 

Worth liking every time I see it.

 

So a Test dyeing of an Ironworks to see if it would be a feasible way to kick off a Rack'N'Ruin custom/s left me with a 'bot in the wrong earth tone colours but ideally suited to my standby salvage custom character Autobot Geologist EARTHWORKS, and I think I've got mining station mode figured out, and it's a doozy (IMHO)!

It's pretty much his tower mode taken down a floor, twisted about a bit, and widened for it to form a mining & ore processing station, with shovel crane, drilling station, and (hard to see in the harsh lighting heavy contrast) his thighs popped out 45° as faux crucibles for the dug ore. Very chuffed with this one, fellow fanmoders!
In fact, I really DIG it! (Fnar Fnar!)

And (terrible pun now out of the way) in the course of it I realised there's actually a way to give Greasepit something a wee bit closer to HIS OG1 tower base mode!


Yeah, he'll end up shorter than Ironworks' BUT his weapons layout is much more like the original base.
You can construct the shorter tower base with the shovel to the front but, particularly for Greasepit, that little posing platform is right in line with and blocks the popped out thighs now serving as cannons, or, if raised out the way to clear them will strand any figure in the shovel platform right in front of the top turret in harm's way, unless you rock it back to a rather silly upwards tilt.
Do with this info what ye will!

 

think this final mode now to add wheels or treads

 

For the day crowd, nice station hero shot! Now with visible details like the slightly deployed thighs as faux "crucibles"/ore processing chutes!

 

Got bored, had ironworks on my desk, made this, laughed for an hour

 

Babyworks.

 

One of the other sort of Fan Modes that always cracks me up   fun to do with bots with collapsing legs and/or arms too. I made a babby Jetfire - I should dig that pic out sometime...

 

Someone suggested the name "ingot"

 

Now that's perfect.

 

Now just needs multiple Repugni in the background.

 

In the Cybertron line, this would be considered a "work mode."