gothsaurus wrote:I'd wager their choices are dictated by what kind of plastics which parts are made of. (I'm sure you have noticed how some toys have softer plastic on pointy bits or ball joints to prevent breakage.)
Softer plastics won't take paint... and have a more limited number of dyes they will accept. It can really paint them in a corner trying to do repaints.
And absolutely none of that has any relevance with changing the layout as I suggested on this particular figure. It's why I mentioned it. They molded all the pieces that need to be pink in the same blue as the lower legs and painted them pink. Since it's all the same type of plastic, they could've switched the plastic colors and then painted the now pink lower legs blue instead of painting the entire upper body and vehicle mode back end pink. That would've used less paint and wouldn't have put paint on as many pieces that rub or inside any joints. The legs can be fully painted as already seen on UW Blades and the twins and how most of the lower legs are painted white on Blades and red on the twins.
The only thing my proposed plastic color switch would've changed were the forearms which are technically the wrong color anyway. It would've made pink forearms instead of blue and they still could've painted the missiles purple. But seeing as to how the forearms "should" be purple and not blue or pink, it doesn't matter what color they are anyway as they're getting that purple color from the missiles and not the forearms. Well, the rotor mount/butt flap would've been changed from blue to pink too but seeing as to how they painted the knee pads pink and they surround the blue rotor mount piece in alt mode anyway, it would've looked better with that piece being pink.
On top of that, they already had the proper color dye as they used it for the hips, thighs, shoulder balls, thumb joint and the combiner peg. So theoretically, all they had to do was use that same color on the standard plastic as they did on the stronger plastic for those other parts. I don't know if they could do that as this is now talking about two different types of plastic and using the same color treatment for both types but I'd imagine that they could've done it.
It's just that what the club did for Spinister just doesn't make sense to me when looking at the other versions of this mold and how they accomplished the colors on the ones that needed to be painted in those same areas as Spinister. I'm just glad that they didn't forget the top layer of foam on this one like they did for Ramjet.
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