When the DECEPTICON^TM who would come to call himself TANNENBOMB discovered the human holiday of Christmas, he knew he had found his calling. Sure, most of his dirty deeds only come once a year, but he's also been hacking into major mercantile servers and subtly adjusting policy so that Christmas decorations go up earlier every year...soon he will attract no comment in his Christmas Tree disguise even in July! He delights in shattering the dreams of human children, believing that a populace that grows up demoralized will make for better slaves. After all, to a long-lived Cybertronian, a human grows up in the blink of an optic.
   When disguised as holiday decor, TANNENBOMB can still move on antigrav repulsorlifts, but it tends to ruin the illusion, so he tries to stay still if anyone's looking. The festive ornaments on his branches can be launched up to 100 meters away, and come in explosive, incendiary and poison gas varieties. He can also fire a beam of coherent light from the star on top. In robot mode he's not a lot more mobile than as a tree, but he adds a "chestnut roaster" flamethrower to his arsenal. He's also been known to hide lethal killer drone robots inside wrapped boxes, where they burst out and maim or kill all humans within the vicinity before self-destructing explosively.

• Main view: the embed above doesn't seem to want to work due to security certificates. So either click on this link, or on the broken image icon.
• With diorama, from above: This gives a better view of the Decepticon symbol on his shoulder. I initially considered putting the symbol on the star. Note that the "lights" are clear purple glass beads that I mixed into clearcoat paint and affixed at the very end of the process. They light up orange under UV, but I didn't like the look of that enough to take a picture. I added garland to the background trees using tinsel pipecleaners I got at Wal-Mart.
• Various angles: Just the figure, seen from all four cardinal directions.

• The Base: A spare Titanium Thundercracker base with a bit of white spraypaint for frost and a new label. The trees and presents came from Hobby Lobby.
• Figure 1: Just the rough structure put together. I left the surfaces lumpy in several places, because I'll be adding branch tufts on top of 'em anyway. The base figure is a ConstructionMech MOD II from Mechwarrior, the head comes from a Micron Legend SCF figure of Ironhide (Demolishor in Armada), the left fist from Megatron. Both PVCs were spares I got in trades, neither from complete figures. The spire behind the head is an arrowhead from one of those Chap Mei police force figures that come with a bow. The star is punched out of sheet styrene with a scrapbooking holepunch I got from Target's Dollar Spot a while back.
• Figure 2: I've added the branches with Apoxie Clay, and sketched out how (with a LOT of cheating) it transforms into the conical tree shape.
• Figure 3 (ready to paint): The big ornaments are pearl beads with the holes filled using Squadron putty. I used a round Dremel head to make niches into which the beads were glued.