JAMES BOND - Original creations

[Pixelpiper]

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That looks more like Kevin McKidd than Daniel Craig.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571727/?ref_=tt_cl_t11

 

[yruh8n]

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That's also not the best angle for that head... As Wor gar kindly pointed out I messed up his nose and when I took the picture we all saw that the blend was noticed and had more green in it but I fixed it right away and posted a picture of the fix. I'll try and dig it up it also shows the head in the best light

My comment was not a knock of your paintwork, which is great. That head sculpt just looks off to me. If it looks that far off model in this position it will in most others as well. The pictures of the prototype for this figure looked promising, the actual production just didn't deliver in my opinion. Some collectors seem to feel that exceptional paintwork and detailed skin texture can miraculously save a sculpt that doesn't quite look like the person it is suppose to be. I don't buy that. Some amazing things can be done with paint, but it only goes so far.

 

[Pixelpiper]

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True enough, but a bad paint-up can easily ruin an otherwise decent sculpt. And a great paint-up can make a decent sculpt look much better than just decent.

 

[yruh8n]

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What about the sculpts that Andy Bergholtz did?... I've still got mine (unfinished Craig). Here's pjam's.

That one suffers from the same flaws as a lot of Craig sculpts. Head is too narrow from side to side and the ears don't stick out enough. Granted this sculpt was done a few years ago if I remember correctly, when Craig was a few years younger and first cast as Bond.

 

[yruh8n]

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True enough, but a bad paint-up can easily ruin an otherwise decent sculpt. And a great paint-up can make a decent sculpt look much better than just decent.

I agree a bad paintjob can ruin anything. I have to disagree with the other point of your statement. I see a lot of stuff on here that gets praised as great because of the paintwork, but the sculpt still doesn't look like who it is suppose to be. A recent example would be the Audrey Hepburn sculpted by Rainman and painted by SilentSurfer. The paintwork was exceptional, but I couldn't find AH in that sculpt anywhere. The Breakfast at Tiffany's Barbie looked more like AH than Rainman's sculpt. That's just me. Everyone's going to have a different opinion. Lucky for us, sculptors keep trying to capture the elusive Craig likeness so at least there is a variety to choose from.

 

[Rogerbee]

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i think that's one of her earlier ones mate. Ive seen this one before, years ago. If you read the description it says she found it again after she thought it was lost. The one I'm talking about was different to this one, ill try to dig it up.

Yeah, I know that was an older one, I didn't have a link to her portfolio saved. That was handy and showed her user name. She has done better ones, but, I don't see the point if she won't cast and sell them.

If you have talent it's best not to waste it

 

[Raymond F.]

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It's interesting though because if you stack up the Craig sculpts some that people claim as decent it blows my mind that someone could actually argue the Andy B one looks even slightly like him. Or the Snyderman omen or Adam one looks any good either. Some may argue the ones unlike more like the Feng or the BBkill one is off too, they are... There's some subjectivity in all of it. We all seem to agree that the first iminime may be the best we've seen and by that token I'm finding it a hard argument to deny the closest to that sculpt is the Medicom sculpt.

I would highly disagree that the better paint overcominsates for lack of accuracy in the original sculpt. If anything my paint work does not fully bring out the brilliance of the original sculpt. Daniel Craig, the loading toys knock off head was the first thing that brought me to this forum and opened me to this world of 1/6 customizing. Damn if I didn't know how ****ed I was! But in any case i consider myself somewhat of an obsessive near expert on Craig sculpts. I've scrutinized over them all more than anything I've worked on and always seem to be striving to perfection on it. I think I've had about 6 versions of Daniel Craig Bond... I scoffed at the photos of the Medicom head and almost didn't get it when I saw it parted out on TA but when I hadn't in person I understood its potential.

I'm not trying to oversell it as i know it's like impossible to get loose, but if I know what I know now about the sculpt and couldn't get it loose would i buy the figure for the head and sell off the gear and get it repainted? Absolutely and unquestionably without hesitation.

The one thing I can sort of see about the aforementioned weakness Medicom sculpt is the compressed crown to compensate for the hat... It's apparent but only about as far off as a couple mm if any plus his hair is over his forehead a little.

Is it a perfect likeness no but I'd count maybe 5 sculpts in my collection I'd deem that. IMO the Medicom Craig is about as close to perfect as something like Chris Reeves Superman, Luke Skywalker or dx10 terminator... All better to good likenesses, clear flaws but very hard to pick at overall because they do the job flawlessly.

In terms of likeness I'd rank

Medicom 9/10
BBkill 8/10
Feng 7/10
Roadshow 6/10
Snyderman 6/10
NatChan 6/10
Loading toys 6/10
Zcwo 5/10
Brother production 5/10
Adam 5/10
Andy B 3/10

 

[Mr.E]

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All good points Ray. I may be crucified for thinking this, but someone should cast up the Medicom Sculpt. It really deserves to be more widespread.

One thing that bothers me about some Craig sculpts, and many others for that matter, is idealization and making someone look better than they actually do. For instance, many of the sculpts of Craig get the hair all wrong. He's not bald, but he's getting there.

Just so people can take a look at Synderman's Skyfall unpainted:

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And as I'm sure others have noticed, Craig does look quite haggard nowadays.

 

[Rogerbee]

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It isn't bad, but, there's an overall style to the Snyderman sculpts that the artist always falls into. You can always pick out their sculpts over others because of it.

That 'style' forever hurts the likenesses and it's a habit the artist might find hard to break. I also found this with the HeroHeads that Lonnie did, they all had the same thousand yard stare.

When a sculptor just sculpts the actor and doesn't fall into bad habits you really see the true likeness emerge. A few HT sculptors have mastered this as did the sculptor of the first Iminime Craig.

 

[Mr.E]

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I agree, I just think that it's always nice to see a sculpt when its unpainted.

 

[Rogerbee]

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That much is true, even DML sculpts can look great when you strip the factory paint off them.

I wonder if DID might have another crack someday and do a Defiance figure in the same vein as their Brad Pitt from Inglorious Barstools!? You never know......

 

[Raymond F.]

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It's so true that Craig looks different all the time hell the two comparison photos that were posted we're from
The same film! It's why his likeness is hard to nail his hair is also do fair and his skin usually different levels of tan so depending on artificial or natural lighting it can totally alter the color of his hair, accentuate his eyebrows or fade them back, highlight certain features over others etc.

I disagree that Craig is going bald in Skyfall his hair was clipped extremely short. I didn't like that look or him I felt it made him look a little dorky. He looked a bit more haggard in skyfall but it might have been intentional due to the premise of the film while he want as built as he was in casino royale he was still really lean however the biggest contribution to how haggard he looked wa how pale his skin was if you look at him in casino royale his skin was twice as tanned. Sure he was a few years younger but I don't think he's aged too bad because he's in great shape I think in the next five years we will see some serious aging happening though. I don't think he's in danger of losing his hair though. He wouldn't be the first bald bond though, we started out this film series with a mean toupee afterall!

 

[Mr.E]

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Very true. I personally felt the haircuit worked. And of course the haggardness was intentional, but he's always kind of looked like that. The guy isn't a pretty boy. His Bond seems like a "kid from the wrong side of the tracks" as opposed to a slick secret agent.

 

[DarthNeil]

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(Excuse the horrendous first initial paint on the Andy B) It's true-- every variation of Craig is unique/different.



Even in 3 3/4 form...



And he gets around...

Look out Han...



And Indy...



And even Spock... (well, according to JJ).

 

[gido]

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Hi!Have somebody photos with finished Susalas and iminimes DC headsculps?I have big interes about it.May male [email protected]

 

[yruh8n]

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It isn't bad, but, there's an overall style to the Snyderman sculpts that the artist always falls into. You can always pick out their sculpts over others because of it.

That 'style' forever hurts the likenesses and it's a habit the artist might find hard to break. I also found this with the HeroHeads that Lonnie did, they all had the same thousand yard stare.

When a sculptor just sculpts the actor and doesn't fall into bad habits you really see the true likeness emerge. A few HT sculptors have mastered this as did the sculptor of the first Iminime Craig.

Have to disagree with you there. I think most people, myself included, fancy ourselves experts to some degree when it comes to what makes a good sculpt and what doesn't. I pulled up this picture of the iminime sculpt that has been mentioned. It's not bad, but has it's share of issues. Skin is too heavy over the eyes and the ears aren't shaped or positioned right.

 

[leia]

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The problem I see with most Craig sculpts is that the sculptors tend to tuck the eyes too far up and under the brow ridge. In general, the heads are usually too narrow and end up looking pinched.

The Medicom one is really nice, but I like that iminime sculpt so much because it has a more open, blunt feeling that feels more accurate to me. If they had lifted the brow just a tiny tiny bit I think it would be about perfect.

 

[Pixelpiper]

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Compared to the iminime, the others might as well be of someone else entirely. This one is simply in a league of its own. Like comparing a photograph to a caricature. It's the only one that looks precisely like Craig from every angle, regardless of whatever faults it may have.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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How does one attain the iminime sculpt?

 

[Wor-Gar]

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I tried to make a comp of all the bad guys I've done over the last few months... I'll have to pull them all out for a real group shot, but in the meantime...

I might have to make this my new sig. Sorry Jack.