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A machine can't achieve the same results. Faces are intricate and require precise painting, and every face is different and has different requirements. It's not all airbrush, either. Most the fine details are only attainable with a standard brush. This is just how these kinds of figures have...

They're painted in the factory, by factory workers, with brushes. Some companies have started using dot matrix "painting," which is basically done by blasting color out of a specialized machine, but you can tell when something is painted that way because up close you can see the individual...

Yeah, this is literally par for the course for hand painted mass produced heads. It looks completely fine. My "looking to the side" sculpt doesn't even look like he's looking to the side, they painted the eyes too close to forward facing compared to most the ones I've seen online. Stuff like...

Each successive character in a line will sell less than the last, there's always a fall off. Some people who bought the first couple move on or don't see the need to buy a full cast of characters, while people who missed the first couple won't want the new ones (who loves Barret so much they'd...

Anything that causes the material to expand or shrink will damage it. Nine times out of ten that's caused by bending the joints, since this stretches the material out of its natural cast shape (expanding it), but the environment can also damage it if the humidity and/or heat is too high, or too...

There's nothing you can do to the figure itself to protect it from a humid environment, so the only option is to reduce the humidity of the environment its stored in, like keeping them in a room with a dehumidifier. But I wouldn't start to worry until you start to exceed 80% humidity and 75°F...

If you're asking about whether the AC Cloud's arms might crack, that's just the risk with seamless bodies. There doesn't exist a seamless body on the market that's completely safe from cracking, but in my opinion the issue is overblown unless you're in an area of high heat and high humidity...

Seamless arms might crack if you live in an area of high heat and high humidity, and/or if you leave them posed in a bent position for long periods of time. If you can manage to find a Gametoys Remake Cloud after all this time, he comes with a set of regular plastic jointed arms you can use...

I think crackdowns like this are far more likely to occur when it's direct competition for something Square themselves produces. They produce lots of statues in-house. If they ever got into 1:6 scale figures they'd be much more inclined to chase down those manufacturers (not that they couldn't...

There's been a couple teases over the past year or two. There was a render of a model based on his AC look but I can't find it at the moment, plus this shot of Vincent's red cloak from the staining test they did for AC Cloud. I think there was something more recent, too, but I only pop into the...

If releasing a clothing set to turn AC Cloud into Remake Cloud allows them to satisfy people who missed out on Remake Cloud without delaying any real future releases, then that sounds like a good enough plan. I used to be in favor of a second batch of Cloud, but then it became clear how long...

Was your shipping box an official one branded by GameToys? Because the figure with the bike has one large shipper, it doesn't have two individual shippers. If they sent you a figure in an individual shipper, it sounds like they sent you the solo release and are making up a story about separating...

I'm well versed in the process, I rip models myself to use to make 3D prints. For the most part I personally don't wind up using it as anything other than reference, but it helps a ton to be able to freely see everything from every angle. I'm just saying xnalara has nothing to do with it as it's...

At the risk of sounding pedantic, I feel compelled to correct this minor incorrect jargon. Xnalara is a posing and rendering software popular on Deviantart (and basically nowhere else lol), so if you're downloading game model rips off there, they'll likely be in that weird proprietary xnalara...

+1 for original Lightning. I can't say I'm a big fan of the game itself, but I've always liked Lightning's original costume. It's just the right amount of over the top final fantasy aesthetic. And the needlessly complicated gunsword is cool, too. I'm not a fan of the Lightning Returns look.

I didn't want to say anything at the time because the figure is still pretty good overall, but I found their Zack figure felt noticeably cheaper than their Cloud did. All this new QC stuff on AC Cloud tells me that level of quality of those first two releases wasn't sustainable long term and...

I will watch this company's future with great interest.

Unfortunately, no, not really. This is the mess I had to deal with to print the front of my Cloud hairpiece: You have to do it all manually, no auto-supports will successfully print something like this.

The M70 is an orangey-pink salmon color, I wouldn't recommend trying to dye it. Anything you intend to paint will need a coat of primer first anyway, so the color of the resin itself is pretty irrelevant. That said, I really like printing with non-grey resin because then when I prime with grey...

Make sure you're thoroughly cleaning the prints before you cure them, all that gunk is easily removed pre-cure with a soft nib toothbrush and some isopropyl alchohol. And I will once again shill for Resione's M70 resin for anything related to making custom toys, it's the only stuff that won't...