Toy, wyvern mode redux

Jun 07, 2009 15:39





After screwing around with the previous dragon mode, I settled on a two-headed wyvern instead. It has the advantage that the legless body will be less like the two-legged dinosaur/Godzilla mode, and it allows some cobra-esque poses as the tail is still quite articulated (as are the necks and wings). I've included a flying shot to show off some of the poses it should be capable of. On the minus side, its tail will be more similar to the dinosaur, although the dino will have less flex and will probably have the familiar blue wedge on the end of it.

I made the jet-wing segments detachable and turned them into wing panels for the wyvern. Each one attaches to a single strut, so the wings can actually be collapsed (they're shown fully open in these shots).

The images at the top left show the remolded AA guns, now with the extending/collapsing ability I always wanted to fit in there. It's going to make reworking the train mode a lot easier.

Less thrillingly, the Autobot symbols which are the right way up on this mode will be upside down once I fix the orientation. Perhaps I should have flipped (and smaller) Autobrands on a white background on the other sides of the cargo pad for modes like this.

Oh, and once again I realise I've not attached the silver grille accessory. Umm... just imagine it sitting between the necks, or something.

And, ah, yes, it does kind of look like it's wearing an orange corset. Not deliberately, but if you're into corseted wyverns, far be it from me to stand in your way. Interestingly enough, the slimmer middle makes the toy look correspondingly longer and larger than it did when it was wider but flatter.

Still can't do as much with the wings as I'd like. I really need somewhere to be able to pack away more wing panels in order to get the full mythological effect. At the moment there's some visual uncertainty about whether it's a winged creature or simply a fan dancer. Perhaps if I pulled the elbows and wrists in closer to the body? It'd reduce the wingspan but the wings would look a lot more continuous from tip to tip.

...I suppose I could look at having the orange cargo pad unfold a lot more to make up the gap. If I flipped this mode front-to-back, opened up the cargo pad, and popped the wing shoulders back into 'flat' position, it wouldn't matter which way the Autobot symbols were facing, and the AA guns would be in a slightly less suggestive position too.

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