Studio Series discussion

[CoffeeHorse]

I don't envy the poor fool who had to pick Soundwave's colors since no two screencaps match, but I've seen a few that are close to this.

It doesn't help that no two home video releases of TFTM look alike either.

 

[Sabrblade]

I don't envy the poor fool who had to pick Soundwave's colors since no two screencaps match,

All they gotta do is stick to the animation model:

 

[Haywire]

Well, for starters, the modern Siege-style cassettes are about one-third the size of the G1 and MP cassettes, so just tweaking the original would make it too big to fit in Soundwave's chest.

I would assume resizing the design specs to fit the current scale would be part of the whole "tweaking the design" thing?

Maybe my memory is just faulty (nope, checked the wiki, its not) but I feel like most of the modern Ravage figures try to give Ravage width by folding the cassette mode in half in some way, which then forces them to make weird compromises with the legs, and the heads just look weird. The G1 design was thin, but it worked pretty well; maybe it's not possible to replicate with modern parts counts, but I feel like that design is a better starting point than what we've gotten from trying to do Ravage different?

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I could try the model sheet. Somehow those never seem to match any episode or any copy of TFTM, but if they're really what was intended then they're the best standard we've got.

 

[unluckiness]

The biggest deco loss is the cassette detailing, really.

The feet look silver. Not sure if that's just overzealous airbrushing but hopefully it's the same color as his other body parts. I don't have a strong preference for cartoon flat gray vs toy silver but I'd at least like consistency.