#though it's mostly feathered dinosaurs we're more accurate

[transingthoseformers]

SG Beast Wars: Not sure what to do to distinguish bots' altmodes from the baseline.

Last i checked the dinosaur colors are basically speculation, so anything goes (within reason). I could make Rattrap black, white, or brown instead of grey. Tigatron could be a regular tiger instead of white tiger. Optimus Primal could be a melanistic white gorilla. Depth Charge could be black and white like a normal manta ray. Airazor's altmode species is vague, but she could be a white morph gyrfalcon (while baseline Airazor is brown morph)?

But what the shit am i going to do with Cheetor, Rhinox, and Silverbolt?

We know a few (a few) dinosaur colors with more accuracy than others (see: sinosauropteryx, pscittasaurus, and Anchiornis), but I mean as far as I think SG Megatron: tyrannosaurus edition goes I think it would be immensely pretty if he was countershaded dark grays and light grays (maybe with his baseline canon marbling/striping!) But that's just an idea. You can also model him off of the Jurassic Park Green morph as I think that'd be pretty or the rusty reddish browns like the prehistoric planet tyrannosaurus!

Now for Rhinox we can take a look at other types of rhinoceros as I think he's based on the white rhino, maybe the reddish of the sumatran rhino or the darker gray of the black rhino! (... Probably. He's probably based on the white rhino. Eyeballing it here)

With cheetor that's difficult because cheetahs look fairly similar because their inbred as all fuck, but I've considered leuistic cheetor before (he could also have coloration more based on the swirly king cheetah morph/subspecies?) (The king cheetah coloration is probably our best bet)

Silverbolt... Is sure as hell a creature alright. Staring at his altmode I'm tempted to suggest changing his golds to silvers and his grays to reddish or brownish (or you can go for the white wolf color morph, that's an option) (the red wolf species/subspecies is super pretty imo, and they're also massively critically endangered beyond belief endangered)

There are so many gorgeous options for Dinobot, too many for me to sit down and think about unlike Megatron

But hey! That's all ideas!