Olive Green: feet & body
Sandy Beige: upper legs, lower arms & inner chest plate
Black: toes, lower legs, outer chest plate, vehicle roll cage, hands and head
Grey: upper arms, ankles, neck, c-clip on weapon
Pale Brown: vehicle wheels and gun
That's five colours of plastic which us a lot for a toy of this size. His articulation is top notch with bending toes, an ankle that pivots forwards & backwards in the foot and is attached to the lower leg's ball joint. The knees bend, we've got ball jointed hips, A WAIST ! (frequently missing from smaller toys these days), turning head, ball jointed shoulders & elbows and a bending wrist leading to a 5mm peg hole closed hand. His gun can be held in his hand, but on the top is a c-clip that can attach it to the bar work covering the toy from it's vehicle mode. There's a very small 3mm bar on the underside of the bar that'll let you attach it to other c-clip weapons or allow it to be held by a Cyberverse figure. The arms on the figure can be locked off by slotting the tabs on the inside of the upper arm into the slots on the front of the shoulders which provides some extra support if he wants to use a weapon. His lower arms can also be transformed into weapons: spin the lower arm at the elbow, which locks off the elbow's ability to bend correctly, and fold the hand down folding out three barrels in it's place. Watch out for the ball joints on the robot's ankles: they aren't the most solidly attached ones I've ever seen but they do go back in easily when then come out.
At this point we need to mention Sandstorm's first undocumented mode: fold the front of the chest down to form a seat. Fold the bars beside the chest down so they point forward. Fold the bars on the back up & forward to cover the head & meet the other set of bar form a roll cage. Sit Private Dedcliff in the seat so he can use Sandstorm as a mech suit.
From the mech suit mode fold the shoulders back so they're behind the robot's waist. Remove the gun & fold both hands upwards. Bend the elbows. Plug the tab on each lower arm into the second tab hole on the side of the body. Spin the waist 180 degrees. Straighten the legs & move the feet close together, but don't actually join them. Fold the feet up to form the grill. Fold the legs forward to form the base of the vehicle pegging the roll cage onto the holes in the struts projecting back from what was the feet. Peg the feet together. Swing the peg on the back of the vehicle down. Clip the gun onto the roll & seat Dedcliff - a blonde haired figure in green fatigues with a beige flak jacket - inside the vehicle.
The first time you try the transformation you'll think the legs fold into the front of the vehicle but they don't! The front of the vehicle sort of rest on the lower legs.
There's not a lot you can complain about with Sandstorm's jeep/dune buggy mode, it's pretty good. The lack of clearance is a small issue because if the transformation, quality control on the toy or flatness of the surface isn't perfect he won't roll. Nearly all the roll cage is 3mm bar so you can go absolutely crazy with your clip & bar weapon collection here really tooling him up for action. In addition there's two small bars that rise up from the back of the toy to take extra weapons.
Sandstorm's third official mode is described as an Artillery Platform. Don't look at the back of the packet or indeed the final picture in the instructions for help: they're both wrong! Remove the driver and the gun. Swing the peg on the back of the vehicle down & stand on the back of the vehicle with the top facing you. Fold the top of the roll cage down so it's flat on the surface you're resting the toy on. Unpeg the lower parts of the roll cage, split the front of the vehicle and fold the robot legs back. Reconnect the halves of the front of the vehicle, bend the knees and fold forward so the clips at the end of the struts projecting back from the front of the vehicle mate with the pegs on the roll bar. Unpeg the arms, swing the shoulders forward & up into the robot shoulder position and peg with the vehicle exhausts facing forward as gun ports. Raise the handles up from the robot arms. Sit Dedcliff in his seat. Clip the gun onto some exposed pipework.
Hmm, I'm not sure I'd want my legs dangling over the missile array, now exposed at the front of this unit, like Dedcliff has. It's a nice extra mode, but to be honest it works better the other way up stood on the robot's feet. A handle is supplied so it can be attached to a Cyberverse base or held by a larger toy, but if you're using it as a hand weapon I'd suggest folding the legs back behind the bulk of the weapon. Still you can't not like any weapon with six gun barrels and a six missile array can you?
Best Human Alliance basic by a country mile. Very good robot, a vehicle the driver looks the right size in, a so so "artillery station" mode but as a bonus decent adapted mech suit and hand weapon modes. If you buy one Human Alliance then buy this one.
Olive Green (feet & body) becomes White
Sandy Beige (upper legs, lower arms & inner chest plate) becomes Ice Blue
Black (toes, lower legs, outer chest plate, vehicle roll cage, hands and head) stays Black
Grey (upper arms, ankles, neck, c-clip on weapon) becomes a very pale grey
Pale Brown (vehicle wheels and gun) becomes black.
TFW2005 have this down as an Autobot but to me he looks more like a Decepticon to me. He comes with what looks like a brand new human figure.