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Reaching for Decepticon generics? Maybe. This guy appears in a few places through "More Than Meets The Eye", though never very prominently. For you MSTFophiles, one fun bit of trivia is that he was what I was looking at when I wrote the "Deathskybuster" portion of the "Unsung Decepticons of More Than Meets The Eye" skit, but a different Decep from the same scene was grabbed for the screen cap. Oh well.
As tempted as I was to make this HOCH actually "be" Deathskybuster, I figured that I already had King Skywarp, which more than fills the "complete goofball gag character" portion. So I went in the complete other direction.
I grant you this one's kinda Thundercrackery. But the blue-gray is a markedly different shade than Thundercracker's baby-blue. And since the Thundercracker PVC has black gauntlets and boots even though the cartoon model seems to favor grayish, the deep gray from said cartoon model for Windchill here separates him all the more from T-Cracker's HOC.
As much as I don't particularly care for T-Cracker's cartoon colors, I do so like this scheme. I wish I could better articulate why... I just like the combo of stony-blue and stony-gray, with the white adding highlights.
I just wish it came out better in these pictures. In person, the PVC is a much grayer blue, and quite easy to differentiate from Thundercracker when viewed side-by-side... yet I can't get it to come through in RGB digital images that way. Kind of pisses me off. It's a fight I've had before, most notably with my Slugslinger Mugshot.
It's a fight I don't think I'm gonna win.
Even though it was an Air Warrior base with gray gauntlets, I did repaint them for consistancy with his boots, which are black on the original. I didn't repaint the white torso-bits, though; there didn't seem to be much point. I did use some Tamiya "flat" white on the parts of his wings that pulg into his back because it's slightly glossier than Citadel's Skull White. All the other white bits were painted over, tho.
Man, I do love the Poly Scale paints. They cover nicely, and there's zero paint streaks, thin spots or visible brush strokes. Windchill here ends up looking practically factory-made. Pity Poly Scale appears to really only do military and industrial tones. Not too many bright colors. They do have a nice solid red, though...
  
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