I’m a 3Ds Max user so I started with a simple trick. When I finished the model of the Trabant, I made a Biped Mesh (from the bones to have skeleton), scales it little bit and started to think about how to make a robot from a Trabant. Believe me, it’s quite funny sitting and thinking “ok where should I put you?” It’s quite a funny process. I cut pieces and moved them to different places, the main idea being to put some mechanics under the robot to have some mechanical skeleton and on top of it be the Trabant parts like protection, and cool looking design like the other transformer robots.
