yeah, this is 100% deliberate Andrew, but mine has
no way near as much distressed/bronzed coverage as yours. The legs on mine gradually fade into the less chromed coverage, mine looks like OMG's, maybe even a bit less. But I think certain lighting seems to make it more apparent.
Everything above the knees on mine is silver/chrome with very slight ageing in places, it's barely visible..
I guess it's a hand done process and they will vary (seeing a lot of this from HT lately).
The rust/bronze is just paint for the most part. However that "line scratch" on your chest plate isn't on mine. Seems like you got a very heavily weathered one.
While looking at mine just now and comparing, I noticed something on the base. Between the black plastic bottom and the sculpted skull landscape on top, there is a translucent blue plastic line/gap.
Looks very much like this
base was originally designed to light up. Only reason I can see for them to do that, but they must have taken the feature out for financial reasons?
This is a really good example of why I wouldn't be waiting for a perfect EB Endo. As I said before, they make amazing headsculpts but they are not great with the technical stuff, the HT arm makes the EB one look like a plastic toy IMO.
Great comparison pics mate.