Yeah maybe but I really like the head sculpt.
Yeah I love the head sculpt on this. It's so life like. Great head sculpts are always my priority on collectables, along with the pose (if it's a statue). It's probably why I persisted with this and stuck to my order.
I was only talking about their realistic ones.
Ah ok.
I use to think that Bruce Los didn't look much different until I compared the stock paint one to it. The color of the flesh is more accurate and it just has noticeable tones through it, and his pics are poor quality. Looks very realistic IMO, whereas this one doesn't except in the high quality pictures you took in certain lighting. That being said, it doesn't look bad though.
I just don't see it. I looked at the pics closely for a long time, then looked at mine, then looked at Bruce Lo's again, and compared to what I see in real life. I just don't see the noticeable tones, or any noticeable difference at all. It looks largely flat to me. It just doesn't look yellow like the early shots, that's all. Has a more realistic skin tone to it, but I think it looks that way in real life, and in my pictures, personally. Viewing this in natural light, it pretty much looks like it does in Bruce Lo's pics. Has a very pinkish tone to it. If someone posted that up and did not mention it was repainted, I would have just assumed it was a pic of a standard one.
Also, seeing this in real life, I really don't see why anyone would do a full repaint on it. Short of adding some more accentuated shading in certain areas (which really comes down to personal preference as I actually think it looks fine the way it is), I actually think the paint is fantastic. Using what appears to be a translucent base with layered translucent colours, I think they've achieved a fairly realistic skin tone on this. Painting over the top of it would take away a bit of the realism I think, as you'd lose the transparency and thus, would end up with something that looks solid and a little fake-looking, unless you were a very skilled artist. Part of the reason PVC head sculpts look so real is due to the translucency of the material.
Just to add, this statue does not look translucent, in the sense that it doesn't look see-through, but if you know what you're looking at you can tell there is some translucency to the material as there is depth to the paint. It has a similar effect to PVC headsculpts that you see on Hot Toys/Enterbay head sculpts, and their bodies for that matter. It just looks totally different when I compare this to my human Sideshow statues.
The sculpt on the body is a little soft in comparison to the proto. I think if it was a little more chiselled, you would end up with more noticeable shading in the muscles simply due to the cuts that would be more defined. Look at some of the proto pics and look at them carefully. You will notice that the skin tone is also largely a single tone with very subtle hues through it, and the majority of the shading comes from the muscles being so clearly defined.
No what I meant was for me to be shell out nearly a 1 K without hesitation, it would have to be something I can not resist. I have the GOD statue, so I know not to expect much from Blitzway as far as paint is concerned, so I was just talking in general that this statue would have to blow my mind in order for me to part with 1 k. That being said I am sure this looks fine or decent or perhaps quite good in real life but I doubt it would be good enough that I could not resist it.
This I totally understand. If you remember, I had a hard time making the decision to buy GoD due to the price, as up until that point, it would have been the most expensive collectible I would have bought, and I had a hard time parting with nearly 600 bucks for Enterbay's T800. I ended up passing once Pop bumped it up to 900 bucks, even though I loved the way it looked. I just didn't like it enough to pay 900 bucks for it.
Buying the Predator statue from AD changed my mentality regarding price though, but I also think it played a part in me buying GoD as I had just spent over 1k buying that statue (which I totally ended up regretting). But it did condition me to pay higher prices for collectables, and I've since PO'd stuff that was well over 500 bucks, whereas previously most of my stuff was under 500.
Simply put, you have to really want this piece to pay 1k for it. It's a hell of a lot of money, and if this was more of a 'that looks kind of cool, wouldn't mind having it' kind of statue, I doubt I would have bought it. Not for that price. There's not many pieces I would pay 1k for, regardless what it is. it's just too much money. These days I do not buy much at all, unless I really love the movie or character, as the prices of collectibles are getting out of hand, whilst the quality has either remained the same, or dropped. A Bruce Lee from Enter The Dragon is just so iconic though, and something I've wanted in my collection for a long time. An epic 1/3 statue was pretty much a no brainer for me, and this pretty much satisfies my need for a Bruce Lee piece in my collection. The guy is a legend and there is no better way to represent him in collectible form.
If I was in your position and had the GoD statue already, it would make it that much harder for me to buy this, and I would have a hard time justifying it. Having no Bruce Lee collectibles whatsoever though, made it much easier for me to make the decision to grab this.
Probably because of the translucently.
That's what I was thinking as well.
Yeah if it is poorly painted no matter how good the lighting is it will look horrible. This is obviously not poorly painted but it still has a plane looking paint job.
It is fairly plain, but the subtlety in the shading works well, almost in it's favour. It really is something you have to see in person, in proper lighting to understand. Even then, opinions vary and you may not like it or see it the same way I do, but I just think with the realistic skin effect they've achieved (for polystone anyway), that the plain look to the paint job is not really an issue. In natural light, there is enough subtle use of blush in the right spots to give the paint some depth, without being overdone to the point where it looks like he's been airbrushed. Real skin does not have accentuated tones and is also fairly plain in colour, so I think they've done a decent job of capturing this.
If the paintjob was plain AND had an unrealistic skin tone to it (like some of Sideshow's pieces), then I would say it is an issue and does not look good. I think Sideshow do this to make up for their lack of realistic tones on their statue, and I do like the effect for the most part, but it does make the piece look fake to me.
Yes and in those pictures the paint job looks really plane but the high quality picture of the product makes the statue look amazing as the image is very sharp. However, those other ones you used that Tyderium did a photoshop of look quite realistic because of the lighting.
Can't remember which pics you were referring to here, but yeah, due to the way the statue is made, it can look realistic or not so realistic depending on the lighting environment, similar to what happens with 1/6 and 1/4 figures from Hot Toys/Enterbay (in poor lighting they just look like cheap toys).
It's not really about me being so hard to impress, it is about me finding it hard to part with 1 k and other factors are involved to like space etc. I don't really like big things because there is not much space to put them and the boxes also take up too much room to, and thus, I end up with too much clutter. So it would have to be something I can't resist in order for me to ignore all those factors and buy it, if that makes sense?
Yeah I get ya. Sounds like you're trying to find enough reason to buy this, and to be honest if I was feeling that way I'd probably pass on it. I kind of felt that way about the GoD piece, and ultimately passed on it. You're a bigger BL fan than me though, so you may be feeling more strongly towards this than I was with GoD, and thus, have a harder time saying no to this. You could always pick it up, decide which one you want more then sell the other one?
The box on this is huge by the way. I had a pretty hard time getting it into my car. Luckily for me boxes are not an issue at the moment, as I have them all stored in my garage. There's quite a few of them, so I think if I didn't have this space available to me, it would have been a real problem.
I am surprized you took yours back, the jaw line is the last thing that bothers me about this piece. I would be more concerned if it was like nongshim's one that is leaning like moon walker (another Sideshow statue trade mark).
The jawline is not really an issue as it's on all of them, but it's more the bit under the chin where it doesn't meet the neck flush. I didn't really notice it badly until I set up the statue in a different part of the room for photos, and filled the room with natural light. Saw it whilst sitting on my couch, and then it was all I could see. It really ruins the side profile so viewing from an angle is a real eyesore as it stood out like a sore thumb, and I'm pretty fussy in that regard (as you know
).
Would you not have returned it because of that issue? Do you think I should have taken their $100 credit and kept the statue? I did think about it, but with my OCD, I wasn't sure I could live with the piece. I was in 2 minds about it, but when I shared the photos here and everyone was horrified and felt the same way I did about it, it kind of reaffirmed my decision to take it back. Something I didn't want to have to do because the rest of the piece was fine.
In all fairness, your photos do make this piece look tempting, despite that the paint job still looks too plane for my taste.
Good to know you liked my photos at least and that they had some effect on you in terms of making you want this piece after you were so disappointed with it, lol. The paintjob will come down to personal taste, so if it's not to your liking that's fine.
Yeah that's not going to happen.
Didn't think so
