His vehicle mode is a very nice looking helicopter, mainly orange with brown sides and a clear blue canopy. The underside of the helicopter carries a blue Energon gun array. The rotor and tailfins on helicopter both spin, with his spark mounted behind the rotor.
TF: Turbines unclip from the side of the copter and fold back to become legs, arms fold up from underneath and cockpit - copying Rotorstorm - folds down revealing the head.
Like his case & team brother Kickback he's superbly articulated with ball joints at the elbows, shoulders, knees & hips. The head truns at the neck and is lightpiped in the same clear blue as the Energon. The gun array can be hand held with the side barrels being removable to form individual guns.
Stormcloud's limb mode involves some origami and you end up with this sort of extended thing with the vehicle mode cockpit and the legs at one end. The gun assembly fits into the ends of the feet either as a hand or folded out as a foot. Limb looks odd but functions OK in either mode.
Stormcloud was sold in the Galaxy Force Toyline in Japan as part of the SD-21 Bruticus set where he was called Vorter (Vortex)
Blackout swaps both orange & brown for a purpley blue colour to give a helicopter in much more Decepticon like colours.
Blackout was sold in the Galaxy Force Toyline in Japan as part of the SD-21 Bruticus set where he was called Blast Off.
Reverb's main colour is a military looking green which suits the mould very well. The upper limbs in robot mode and the rotor blades are now black with the Energon a blue green colour.
Looks very nice - almost Waspinator as a helicopter. A real loss I think.
Awful. Avoid !
Orange is swapped for grey and brown for a slate grey/blue to give a colour scheme close to the original Combaticon Vortex. Cockpit canopy, lightpipe and Energon are now clear orange when maybe purple would have been better.
Best colours on this mould. Oh for this as one limb and Reverb as another !