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Basically one of the Japanese Galaxy Force DVD volumes originally came packaged with 'Chromia White Version', a redeco of Thunderblast using the color scheme of Minerva from Transformers Super-God Masterforce (and it should be noted that the preliminary name for Chromia/Thunderblast was in fact 'Minerva', so this wasn't 100% as random of an homage as it might seem)

Anyways I just figured, well they redecoed Thunderblast using Minerva's color scheme, so why not redeco Minerva using Thunderblast's color scheme?

I focused mostly on the robot mode deco with this digibash, but I still wanted to try and capture Thunderblast's vehicle mode deco as best as I could when accounting for how this figure transformers and what parts end up where in car mode.

Of course, if I had the skills to do so, I would've replaced the lightbar (which is just a separate piece that plugs into a 5 mm port, for those who don't have this figure) with a giant fuck-off gun to reflect the original toy's giant fuck-off gun. But I lack the image editing skills and patience to do that, so instead she still has the lightbar just recolored to Thunderblast purple. (I originally considered having the sirens be orange but I figured that'd blend too much with the transparent orange windows)

Also of note, as someone pointed out to me, Cybertron Thunderblast's toy was later redecoed as Elita-1 for BotCon 2009. Meanwhile Transformers: Legacy Minerva is a redeco and retool of Elita-1. And I've just gone and digitally redecoed Minerva as Thunderblast.

So there's layers to all of this, layers I didn't really intend (I literally just did this as a 'Hey they did Thunderblast using Minerva's colors, so why not Minerva with Thunderblast's colors?' thing without thinking of the Elita-1 toy connection).

And yes, I did decide to give her a Decepticon badge because having the Autobot symbol with this obviously Decepticon color scheme would've just looked wrong.

Description
Basically one of the Japanese Galaxy Force DVD volumes originally came packaged with 'Chromia White Version', a redeco of Thunderblast using the color scheme of Minerva from Transformers Super-God Masterforce (and it should be noted that the preliminary name for Chromia/Thunderblast was in fact 'Minerva', so this wasn't 100% as random of an homage as it might seem)

Anyways I just figured, well they redecoed Thunderblast using Minerva's color scheme, so why not redeco Minerva using Thunderblast's color scheme?

I focused mostly on the robot mode deco with this digibash, but I still wanted to try and capture Thunderblast's vehicle mode deco as best as I could when accounting for how this figure transformers and what parts end up where in car mode.

Of course, if I had the skills to do so, I would've replaced the lightbar (which is just a separate piece that plugs into a 5 mm port, for those who don't have this figure) with a giant fuck-off gun to reflect the original toy's giant fuck-off gun. But I lack the image editing skills and patience to do that, so instead she still has the lightbar just recolored to Thunderblast purple. (I originally considered having the sirens be orange but I figured that'd blend too much with the transparent orange windows)

Also of note, as someone pointed out to me, Cybertron Thunderblast's toy was later redecoed as Elita-1 for BotCon 2009. Meanwhile Transformers: Legacy Minerva is a redeco and retool of Elita-1. And I've just gone and digitally redecoed Minerva as Thunderblast.

So there's layers to all of this, layers I didn't really intend (I literally just did this as a 'Hey they did Thunderblast using Minerva's colors, so why not Minerva with Thunderblast's colors?' thing without thinking of the Elita-1 toy connection).

And yes, I did decide to give her a Decepticon badge because having the Autobot symbol with this obviously Decepticon color scheme would've just looked wrong.