Normally I just let things go, but in theory customer feedback is designed to make things better, so.... I was really looking forward to my Indy PF and overall it is outstanding, but for one issue.
The dark tan face paint on mine makes him look almost half black in anything but ideal/bright light. While I understand they are all hand painted, in theory the painters are working off a reference image and if that image looked anything like the face paint on the product box, then in the case of my statue they missed it by a long mark.
I can understand some variations, but based on all the images I've seen on the web, nothing else thats painted (base, idol, whip, hands) have anywhere near the range of light-ish/normal to super dark tan that the face seems to be having. From what I can tell, it seems that I got one of the more darker extreme paint apps, which given its the regular, I've got no means to repaint or lighten, and it was an international/dealer
purchase, I'm basically stuck with it.
At a cost of around $500AUD, this is somewhat disappointing and one of the reasons why I've not purchased the Galadriel PF (every picture/film frame clearly shows she did not have bright ruby RED lips) and while I don't have any plans to sell my Indy PF (or any of my statues), I just know his re-sale value would be way down compared to a normal (more film/human accurate) face paint version.
As such, can I please ask that sideshow take just the little extra care to get everything correct, its a real shame when such a fantastic sculpt and overall production ends ups been much less then one had hoped for and knows that it could have been.
What with the economy what it is and prices what they are, one can only afford few select items and when there is such a likely hood of things going 'wrong', it ends up being safer to just give it all a miss.
