Admiral Piett 12" Official IMAGE THREAD

[abake]

Looking forward to them!

 

[pixletwin]

I'll be posting some of my crappy yellow office pictures of him in a few minutes.

 

[pixletwin]

Here is my Piett:

 

[Wor-Gar]

They look great all together!

 

[abake]

Piett, looks great, not sure he looks like himself, but he does look pretty spiffy!

 

[jkno]

How would you compare Piett and Praji as figures and quality?

 

[pixletwin]

About the same. Paint is better on Piett as is the body. But everything else is exactly the same.

 

[jkno]

Do they have the same blasters? The side gun I mean not the E-11

 

[pixletwin]

Identical blasters. Identical guns.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Pix, your thoughts on him?

 

[pixletwin]

I really like him. The PRO body is taller than PROs we have seen in the past. The joints are nice and tight The hands come off easier than other figs but aren't loose.

I wish the boots were nicer. They seem a bit large for Piett's stature. The tailoring is very nice once you futz around a bit (out of the box it looks a bit lumpy and uneven).

Like I said before, the face sculpt is would have been a dead on likeness but Andy sculpted him to be a bit too gaunt of face. Its really too skinny for Piett. He seemed to have more of an oval shape to his face and cheeks and forehead but this sculpt seems to be a diamond.

The cloth hat isn't quite as nicely cut as Prajji's and it harder to make look nice, but its not impossible. The pen thingees go in a lot easier than in Prajji's (it was really hard to find the pockets in Prajji's uniform).

I would say for the new price point he is about right.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I thought the hat was a little worse too, just wanted to confirm. It's gonna take some water treatment and some pulling and stretching to get it to where it needs to be.

Maybe this Pro is taller because of the boots rather than the shoe pegs we're used to?

Does Piett actually have feet? I haven't stripped him yet.

I didn't find the boots to be too big so much as too soft and shiny making them seem very toyish unlike SS's usual excellent footwear.

 

[pixletwin]

Piett has feet.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Piett has feet.

Ah ha! So maybe that is where the little extra height comes from -- the feet coupled with the boot's heel.

 

[MaulFan]

That's good to hear, the first footed Pro figure I believe, I'm guessing Toht and Belloq and all the Joe's so far have been pegs like Indy?

 

[bmarz1000]

That's good to hear, the first footed Pro figure I believe, I'm guessing Toht and Belloq and all the Joe's so far have been pegs like Indy?

Cobra Commander was the first footed Pro figure.

 

[abake]

I thought the hat was a little worse too, just wanted to confirm. It's gonna take some water treatment and some pulling and stretching to get it to where it needs to be.

Maybe this Pro is taller because of the boots rather than the shoe pegs we're used to?

Does Piett actually have feet? I haven't stripped him yet.

I didn't find the boots to be too big so much as too soft and shiny making them seem very toyish unlike SS's usual excellent footwear.

I beg to differ.
Comparing the hard material they used before and the sculpting of their black tall boots to DML's WWII German tall boots, I can say with utter confidence that I think Sideshow's boots were utter ^^^^e.
The material was way too hard, making it difficult to pose the figures well, and the hard material didn't even warrant any extra detail, as they were pretty bland in that department. And the sculpting still leaves a lot to be desired as they are way to wide on top.

I much prefer the softer material they use now, and if they could only tweak the sculpt a bit they'd be much much better.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I much prefer the softer material they use now, and if they could only tweak the sculpt a bit they'd be much much better.

Oh, I didn't mean soft as in feel, I meant soft as in the detail of the lines and creases in the boot. Piett's seem less detailed to me than usual.

Then again, I might replace them with a set of boots from Newline anyway. For Tarkin definitely.

 

[abake]

Ah, I see...
Well, if the detail's even softer this time around then it might be troublesome.

 

[pixletwin]

I think a boot replacement is definitely in order. It would help his over all look. If anyone finds any links to boots that would work post them here please.