It's just so odd that they haven't gone back to that design for anything. Or they even could've reused some of those design tricks from PRiD deluxe Vehicon to flip and compress some of those panels to fill in the lower legs. If the windshield had been made of standard opaque plastic then it not only would've saved on paint since there's less paint needed for the windows but only just on this design but it would've allowed them to work in some hinges to have the parts fold flat against the sides of the legs. If you have to do that then it should tell you to maybe not design it like that.

So as a workaround they put the chunks on ball joints so that they can be moved from one place to another in order to use the articulation. But most egregious is that the windshield just ends up as chunks of kibble since there's no hinges in them. Then the paint is over tranlucent blue plastic which only compounds the matter of the yellow paint. The paint isn't going to match normally but since it's yellow it's going to be worse.

However this design showcases the major limitations of using a large amount of translucent plastic.

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