No I didn't say that, I can, do and have painted better heads than hot toys myself. I know exactly what I'm talking about. I also think there are artists out there, both here on the forum and some of the Asian artists who can paint even better than I can.
If you actually read what I posted and not hurled out insults and commentary that wasn't thoughtful, I said that no paint job will make it look more realistic than the hot toys head because of the lack of detail and refinement in the sculpt, the scale and the fact that the original sculpt which does have a great likeness is dated and toy-like.almost cartoon like by comparison.
I've seen skiman's paint jobs of this. I also have one of these painted by Josh Small and it's also an unbelievable paint job. And Trevor grove is still one of my favorites. With all that next to the hot toy figure, it just doesn't fit in anymore, it sticks out like a sore thumb. It's a dated head sculpt now.
Do I still like it for what it is? Absolutely. But it's not the same caliber. It won't be replacing the hot toys in any realistic way to sit on the shelves with the new figures.
I've said people need to let it go because of all the human hot toys heads, all of which have major problems with likeness Old Ben is actually the best of the bunch and in my estimation pretty darn close in likeness.
For the record hot toys head needs modding too... I've painted it a lot to fix the color of the beard and bring out the likeness in other parts.
