danth Posted August 29 Posted August 29 (edited) DinoTron is a Classic Space theme that could have been. It features space vehicles that turn into dinosaurs! Main Colors: Red and Light Gray Windscreen Color: Trans Yellow Secondary Colors: Black and Trans Red The AI mothership of the DinoBots faction has taken an extreme interest in an ancient extinct kingdom of lizard beasts from a distant planet called Terra. So much so that it has extracted DNA from Terran fossils and synthesized it with cybermech technology in order to create robotic vehicles that transform into Dinomechs. These Dinomechs exceed at traversing harsh alien skies and landscapes. The main units are the AeroDactyl Jet Bike and the Ankyl-biter Drill Rover. Of course they both transform into Dinomechs. The Drill Rover morphs into an all terrain walking dinomech, while the Jet Bike turns into a flying dinomech. The Drill Rover frees power crystals from alien landscapes using its laser drill bit. It transforms into mechbeast mode to deal with rough terrain and dig up buried crystals. The laser drill turns into a weaponized tail whip to fend off ornery megafauna. You can see the transformation video here. The Jet Bike is for exploration and scouting. It can land in order to investigate possible resource deposits up close. More pics on flickr. Thanks for looking! I'm pretty proud of the Drill Rover transformation because all the parts lock into place in vehicle mode using clips. I'm going to try to post a video showing the transformation. Also, sorry for the crappy photographs. I have literally no photography skills. I'm going to work on that! Edited August 30 by danth Quote
SpacePolice89 Posted August 29 Posted August 29 These are very nice! The colors look very good together and the builds look like they could be official sets. The red Ice Planet style visor looks so good on a black helmet. These builds are perfect for both play and display. Looking at the pictures makes me realize how much I miss new small sets that belong to a proper new Space theme. It makes me feel the same way as I felt when I saw Ice Planet or Spyrius sets in a store for the first time. It is something new and exciting. Quote
Astatine-209 Posted August 29 Posted August 29 Both the AeroDactyl and the Ankyl-biter look sick, I really like the elephant-y toes on the latter. Using that car fender piece for an ankylosaur's' head is pure genius, it looks so much like the real thing! Your photos look great, but goodness gracious, what is that colour ! Unless you made the reds purple-ish on purpose with the lighting, I'd recommend taking your photos and hue-shifting them back into the reds with a photo editor, like below. Quote
Feuer Zug Posted August 29 Posted August 29 DinoBots transform! Lots of fun with the names here. Solid color scheme as well. The transformation ability pushes it over the top. Quote
alex_lyman Posted August 29 Posted August 29 I love the play features! Super fun, and great mix of nostalgic build with updated techniques. Quote
danth Posted August 29 Author Posted August 29 13 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said: These are very nice! The colors look very good together and the builds look like they could be official sets. The red Ice Planet style visor looks so good on a black helmet. These builds are perfect for both play and display. Looking at the pictures makes me realize how much I miss new small sets that belong to a proper new Space theme. It makes me feel the same way as I felt when I saw Ice Planet or Spyrius sets in a store for the first time. It is something new and exciting. Thank you! I love that Ice Planet visor! I also love sticking any visor that works on the Classic Space helmet, but the full face visors don't really "seal" so I stick the the oddball ones. I'm super glad to hear these invoke the feeling of real classic Space sets! 9 hours ago, Feuer Zug said: DinoBots transform! Lots of fun with the names here. Solid color scheme as well. The transformation ability pushes it over the top. Yay, thanks! 5 hours ago, alex_lyman said: I love the play features! Super fun, and great mix of nostalgic build with updated techniques. Thank you! 10 hours ago, Astatine-209 said: Both the AeroDactyl and the Ankyl-biter look sick, I really like the elephant-y toes on the latter. Using that car fender piece for an ankylosaur's' head is pure genius, it looks so much like the real thing! Your photos look great, but goodness gracious, what is that colour ! Unless you made the reds purple-ish on purpose with the lighting, I'd recommend taking your photos and hue-shifting them back into the reds with a photo editor, like below. Dude, help! I think I must have acquired some sort of mild color blindness. I can't even see the difference between our pics. I also found out a few things about my phone: it has 12m and 50m settings, and people say to use the 12m one inside, and turn off the phone's Scene Optimizer but leave on Auto HDR. So I tried that with hopefully better lighting and got this: I don't know if it's better. I think I need brighter lighting still. Thoughts? Off to read the Lego Photography thread... Quote
Astatine-209 Posted August 30 Posted August 30 9 hours ago, danth said: Dude, help! I think I must have acquired some sort of mild color blindness. I can't even see the difference between our pics. I also found out a few things about my phone: it has 12m and 50m settings, and people say to use the 12m one inside, and turn off the phone's Scene Optimizer but leave on Auto HDR. So I tried that with hopefully better lighting and got this: I don't know if it's better. I think I need brighter lighting still. Thoughts? This new photo still seems to be different - I put the colours side by side below: I actually don't know that much about photography myself, but maybe your display is old and has a shallow colour depth, so the pics would look the same to you. I don't know if there are camera settings which could improve colour accuracy. Maybe someone else can confirm that the colours are different so it doesn't look like I'm trolling or something . Quote
danth Posted August 30 Author Posted August 30 4 minutes ago, Astatine-209 said: This new photo still seems to be different - I put the colours side by side below: Damn. I definitely see the different reds in your example. I just figured out how to set the white balance on my camera (which is an Android phone camera and might not be that great in the first place). Maybe my next try will be better. Added a link to the Drill Rover transformation video above. Or you can see it here: Quote
JesseNight Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Very nice designs, that in a way feel both new and familiar. Quote
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