Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 22, 2008 15:56:37 GMT
You are referred to the Classics Starscream review uk.geocities.com/philip_ayres@btopenworld.com/cl_star.html for detail of how the toy TFs and the original colour scheme. That will very soon contain this review and details of the other versions of this mold.
This version takes the Classics Starscream mold and gives it a paint job *much* closer to the G1 original. Gone is the large amounts of red paint on the wings and the blue stripe down the back. Instead we now get small red and white stripes on the wings and the upright tailfin with the majority of the tailfin being blue. The blue round the cockpit and nosecone is gone too and the red on the fuselage is now a brighter red. The launchers are basically the same, except that the round housing between trigger and missile has fallen prey to Takara's obsession with chroming pieces. There's a backwards facing Decepticon symbol on top and under each wing. Why
? The symbol should face forward and then it'd be the right way up in robot mode ! Gone is the rubsign.
TFing to robot mode and we see the bright red is continued onto the robot chest and that they've painted the sides of the vent boxes - hurrah ! There's white markings on the side of the waist piece now and white also replaces the red stripes on the shoulders. The blue too can now be seen to a bit brighter as it's visible now on his hands, forearms, feet & kneepads (replacing the gold - the previously blue bits are now yellow) There's a thin grey stripe round the end of the forearms. The wheels inside the vents can be seen to be painted a dark grey. Gone is the gold on the upper part of the bits sticking up from the shoulders, instead the vents lower down are painted in a more metallic gold.
Overall: Greatly improved over the classics version. Mine is spoiled by some not great paint applications, and it going into the plastic packaging still wet - the missile launchers came out stuck together in one block and had to be prised apart.
Since I ordered it I've seen the Classics 2.0/Universe version which is basically the Henkei version with no chrome, no white paint and blue launchers. I am liking that a lot.
This version takes the Classics Starscream mold and gives it a paint job *much* closer to the G1 original. Gone is the large amounts of red paint on the wings and the blue stripe down the back. Instead we now get small red and white stripes on the wings and the upright tailfin with the majority of the tailfin being blue. The blue round the cockpit and nosecone is gone too and the red on the fuselage is now a brighter red. The launchers are basically the same, except that the round housing between trigger and missile has fallen prey to Takara's obsession with chroming pieces. There's a backwards facing Decepticon symbol on top and under each wing. Why
? The symbol should face forward and then it'd be the right way up in robot mode ! Gone is the rubsign.TFing to robot mode and we see the bright red is continued onto the robot chest and that they've painted the sides of the vent boxes - hurrah ! There's white markings on the side of the waist piece now and white also replaces the red stripes on the shoulders. The blue too can now be seen to a bit brighter as it's visible now on his hands, forearms, feet & kneepads (replacing the gold - the previously blue bits are now yellow) There's a thin grey stripe round the end of the forearms. The wheels inside the vents can be seen to be painted a dark grey. Gone is the gold on the upper part of the bits sticking up from the shoulders, instead the vents lower down are painted in a more metallic gold.
Overall: Greatly improved over the classics version. Mine is spoiled by some not great paint applications, and it going into the plastic packaging still wet - the missile launchers came out stuck together in one block and had to be prised apart.
Since I ordered it I've seen the Classics 2.0/Universe version which is basically the Henkei version with no chrome, no white paint and blue launchers. I am liking that a lot.