Ok, super late to the party but I finally received my deluxe today. First of all: come on!
First impression: this figure is surely a looker and it's really impressive on the shelf. There are some evident drawbacks, like the sculpt is extremely light, they used a very low quality plastic, like Barbie grade soft plastic, like look at that:
Then there are the hands. The gloved ones are atrocious, they are still sticky and the paint is still wet. I'll need to leave them a month or so in open air to get the paint to settle properly. Somehow they went for a black rubber which then they painted pink for the fingers. The result is terrible, as the black paint shines through the pink and some fingertips are even chipped, so there are black patches showing.
Too bad the trigger hand and the button pressing hand are only available as a right hand, so they cannot be used at the same time. Also the trigger hand is badly shaped and to even hold the gun I had to forcefully (but carefully) stick the trigger finger into the trigger guard, this is the result, still not optimal:
One of the mods I did right away was cutting the stupidly big zipper handle.
Good riddance. This left the zipper with a standard 1/6 look. This way that giant pin doesn't show up with the jacket closed.
The harness was a little loose, meaning that once in place its straps covered the side buttons. So I tried to fasten the buckles not in their slot but tighter, in the opening where the receiving buckle is strapped to the leather. Here's a pic to show what I'm talking about:
This left the side buttons a little more exposed. The real problem with the way the harness is designed is that the straps should go under the epaulettes (I guess that's a better way to call those things...) but they basically cover the buttons. So you have to try and position the straps to make them go under, but they rub against the tiny buttons on the shouders, and they come undone everytime you move the figure. Definetly the most annoying things button wise.
While I struggled with the straps a stud came off. I don't think I am ever going to bother sticking it back in place.
And now the buttons! I know many of you struggled so much with them. But for me, it just took 30 seconds to button them all up! Don't belive me? Just watch!
All I needed was that magic tool from DID.
And now some photos with a basic pose. First with the original helmet:
And now with the reshaped helmet. Used the same method mentioned before in the thread. Dropped for 10 seconds in boiling water, pinched slightly at the bottom, done.
All in all this figure is a solid 8 for me.
