TF_JW wrote:There were about half a dozen, or probably more counting minor variations, different attempts at how to best compromise between vehicle mode and combined mode. And a (small for obvious reasons) number of people were involved in evaluating each one.
The main area of the chest was not a problem because it gets covered by the folding pieces that you mention. So that was able to have the gray and the black for the nod to Thunderwing. The waist flap and the shoulder wings, however, are all still visible in vehicle mode. Some of the pieces being very prominent. The waist piece was left green for this reason as well as the fact that Thunderwing has a significant amount of green on his waist in most of his depictions. The shoulder wings were given the gray stripes since those were small enough to not stand out on the vehicle's turret. And of course the black was added to the legs to help break up that green.
Looking at the overall colors scheme, the orange gets completely hidden, the brown is significantly downplayed and only remains visible in the hinges and similar parts, and the green actually makes sense to be in a lot of the places that it's in. So personally, I think it works fairly well at evoking the character it's meant to be referencing. Especially with all of the gray and blue on Needlenose and the touches of gray on Spinister.
Alright, fair enough, fair enough; I was originally thinking back to the pics of onslaught with the chest wings folded up against the turret area in vehicle mode, and wondered if the top of it could be painted a different color for combined mode and leave the bottom side green for vehicle mode.
I don't actually know what Thunderwing is
supposed to look like, but it seems his body is mostly bone white/grey, so the deco actually works; perhaps, though, color the mid-section of the cod-plate grey so it doesn't look like a giant green wrestler belt;
I was never against it, I think it looks really cool; my only regret is that circumstances prevent me from affording it
Hope to see a continued (if only subdued) use of the CW molds in the future.
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