00Stargrave00 wrote:
I think the battle damage paint applications have been rolled back on Barricade since the last time we saw him. There are only a few scratches on the driver's side bumper/fender. (The paint apps might mirrored be on the passenger side too, but you can't really tell from these pictures.) Maybe that was the compromise to add the "To Punish and Enslave" Cybertronian text to his doors? What's more interesting, though, is the story this tells through paint applications. It looks like Barricade is no stranger to using the PIT maneuver, just like police do in a high speed chase to stop a fleeing vehicle. That's exactly where you would see paint scraping on a real car trying to spin out another car along side them.
Anyone notice that Highjump has a bit of battle damage paint on his passenger side front fender? I thought the Micromasters and Battle Masters were to be spared the battle paint applications. This could just be some paint slop, but then again, there's another weird splotch of silver paint on his chest. Or maybe, that paint on the chest is supposed to be there...on Powertrain. If you look at the G1 toy and the initial renders of the Siege version, you'll see Powertrain has an offset silver rectangle decoration on his chest.
Maybe something got messed up at the factory level and people started putting the silver rectangle on Highjump instead? Then maybe the silver paint on the fender of Highjump is just paint slop/residue left over from the hand painting process...applied to the wrong toy.
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