Transformers IDW Torchbearers Artwork

william-james88 wrote:Where do those feet for Jumpstream come from? I dont see them on the toy

lol

There was certainly a fine balance to be found between “stay close to the toys’ designs” and “follow your heaaaart”

Just a liiiiittle more black or another dark color and I could warm up to this color scheme. These look good. The actual toys at this point? Meeeeehhh...not so much.

if only the toys looked half as good as the art.

Yeaaa... still not fond of the colors. Rust Dust makes it work because the teal is allowed to dominate instead of clash with the red, and there's black to add some contrast, but the others are just awful.
Really, tonally these gals are flat and homogenous:

Whereas Rust Dust and the average Transformer (any fictional character, really) has some variety:

Skyburst and Stormclash kinda have a Topspin and Twintwist thing goin on to me.

Well after skipping on this thread for the last 20 pages, that's a hack of a lot of opinions on both sides...

Personally, I see this set as a special thank you to the fans. We from the votes enough to have an idea what to expect, and as the phase basically goes "you can't please all the people, all the time". But I am in the pleased camp. Yes there could be more done to "personalize" the characters and I think Rust Dust is a pretty silly name but on the whole for a set that doesn't actually need to exist with what is definitely a unique decoration plan (gives me an 80's club vibe) for a consistent palette on the gestalt mode missing from most of the others.

As long as Hasbro doesn't price gouge us on these, (or forget to ship to stores outside the US) I'll be picking this set up. Perfect? Not at all, but more than unique enough to go on my shelf.

I do think the art makes these look better, but again, the colors clash in the worst way possible. A simple change in hues would fix this set. If the turquoise was more of a blue, it'd work, if the cherry red was more of a burgundy, it'd work.

But I digress, the designs in the art are really nice looking, but they are nothing like the toys, with maybe Rust Dust being the exception, but only because that figure already has a somewhat feminine figure.

I still think that color scheme is horrible.

Maybe lessen the intensity of the colors to that of the original Kingposeidon? Reminded me of him though not as flashy.

GreenLantern of Cybertron wrote:
Just playing with it. added some more white that was on the color scheme in the poll.

I was just wandering how the color scheme could be improved. I think you re-interpretation is far far better than the current toys. Well done sir!

I like the blue you added allot too