Some paint schemes in this range outlived the sculpt they were made for. A scheme built on black and white with a hard split across the body was applied first to one robot and then carried onto others, at different sizes, over several years — so the name identifies a finish with its own following rather than a single product.

For a collector that is the whole game. Chasing a scheme across sculpts gives a shelf a visual logic that chasing a sculpt across schemes never does: the figures differ in size and silhouette but read as one unit, which is exactly the effect the fiction describes. It is also the reason these entries are cross-linked by scheme. Knowing that a finish exists on a small figure tells you what to look for when the large one is out of reach, and the small one is usually the version that can still be found.