[SFF] CAT D - Futuron 2

[SpacePolice89]

Let me present my new faction for the Summer Faction Festival contest. They are called Futuron 2. The faction is a special unit of Futuron that is specialized in exploring remote planets with extreme environments. That is the reason for their different uniforms and colors. The colors of their vehicles are similar to Futuron but instead of trans dark blue canopies theirs are trans green.

This is a reconnaissance spaceship that is the the first to visit unexplored planets. It is fast and equipped with various sensors.

I wanted to keep the color scheme somewhat similar to regular Futuron sets but with distinctive new colors for this special unit. I was inspired by the color changes that Classic Space got during the 80s and the Futuron spaceship with a trans red canopy in the prototype Seatron monorail set that was never released.

This special unit prefers twin seat spaceships or robot assistants because they operate in very remote galaxies and solar systems where there are no M-Tron rescue vehicles nearby. This is also the reason why their uniforms are slightly different. They use a modified Futuron spacesuit that is more protective but also heavier and not as flexible as the normal one.

The green Astronaut second from the left has damaged his spacesuit while exploring a recently discovered lava planet.

Some of the astronauts choose to use helmets in different colors so that they can easily recognize each other in low visibility environments.

Most of the torsos are from City Space sets but one is from a Dreamzzz set.

The photos below are included for illustrative purposes only (to show the color scheme) and not an entry in  the contest. I built a spaceship for the same faction for Lego Ideas a couple of years ago and that is the one pictured below.

I got the inspiration to use green astronauts from a prototype green Futuron astronaut that is very rare because it never entered mass production. Only a few of them exists. Some of my green astronauts even have white hands like the prototype minifig has.