Sabrblade wrote:It is possible to get a cartoon-accurate deco for Abominus's head if you're willing to customize the toy a bit, as the whole head is cast in maroon plastic, meaning that the white helmet is just painted white. All you have to do is remove all of the paint on the head to reveal the maroon plastic underneath, and then paint/color the eyes red and the face gray/silver to get that full cartoon look.Cyberpath wrote:Also, the Terrorcons could have looked great with this crowd, but I'm not crazy about the Hasbro decos. (Maybe if there's a really good sale someday. Or a UW edition.)
I always get too ambitious with these things, then bored and eventually leave it unfinished. It's not just the Hun-gurrr/Abominus faces; I think that with some tweaks Takara would have pushed these to the next level. (For instance, I don't get why Hun-gurrr's thighs have these random white blocks?) Takara spoiled me with its awesome Legends decos. There were figures I would have probably skipped if not for its attention to detail & colour schemes. (Not to mention extra articulation and signature guns for the Constructicons.) It's fine though, I'm not too bothered by it.
BTW, shame that the engineering doesn't allow for dragon knees on Abominus. I always thought it was a cool feature because it kind of looked like the heads belonged to Sinnertwin & Cutthroat. (AKOM made that mistake in an amusing piece of animation.)