Jaz-Zen wrote:Liege Evilmus wrote:I don't want to get into the whole red thing, but does anyone else agree that the blue shows off more of sculpt details than black.
My biggest problem with this figure is that all those details get lost in my usualy beloved all consuming black.
Yes, I totally agree with Liege and Skowl. Black is cool, because I think of Ironhide as The Intimidator of the Autobots, and because the G1 Ironhide/Ratchet mold was *first* seen in black in Diaclone. But blue *does* show of the scult details better than black, and, like Skowl said, I don't know if red would really be any better than black or blue.
Personally, my black Ironhide doesn't have any paint detail on his face. I know some of ya'll were lucky enough to get Ironhides with face paint, but I was not so lucky. So I'm thinking of using the reprolabel Trailbreaker set to turn black Ironhide into Trailbreaker (more because we don't *have* a modern Trailbreaker figure than to make it more G1), and have this blue Ironhide be the Ironhide of my collection, since the blue shows off the mold details better.
That's just my take on things, though.
-J-
I've seen a bit of a custom repaint of this figure in red, It looked ok but many because there was alot of silver and some yellow to ballance it.
Still, if Hasbro was to do a red version of this figure, I don't believe they would put half as much effort into it as a fan and he'd turn out looking like a can of crushed tomatoes!
I do have to agree with Skowl, I love G1, but not everything has to be a G1 homage, after all, I don't remember any of this whey Energon IronHide came out in either of his color patterns
As for the idea of calling him TrailBreaker, well if thats what you wanna do go ahead! The way I see it is once you pay for a bot, you can do whatever you want with it reguardless of what the box sayes.
I do it all the time
Thats what I think of the portrate for the SS G1 redeco 
