potatocorner4life
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Quite a night and day difference, I wasn’t impressed because of their 1/3rd.. but this sculpt looks miles better.
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Quite a night and day difference, I wasn’t impressed because of their 1/3rd.. but this sculpt looks miles better.
I agree, the skin looks a lot softer which I prefer. JND has a tendency to do emphasized wrinkles especially on the forehead similar to the their Indiana Jones. Not my cup of tea but from how this profile is displayed, it resembles Heath much more for me.They're pretty similar to be honest. The biggest change was the paint app which took some of the likeness away, a long with the hair. Their in-house stylists have gotten a lot better now, though.
I cut my 1/3 to match the hair shape from the proto, it's the same sculpt, they just took some white makeup from his left side. Just the lips and scar look different here, it's mostly the makeup bringing out his likeness a lot better.
Also, people need to keep in mind that Kojuns has been In research and development with this new process for a lot of years, I'm sure the issue of prolonged movements and paint applications will have been figured out, even through the quite severe paint app progress on their 1/3 line makes me feel pretty confident in this.
This is definitely a brand new era in collecting. Will be interesting to see other companies responses what with the patents for the tech etc.
Will be ordering this 100% off the bat.
Also that hair looks incredible for 1/6, definitely an improvement over the 1/3.
until they see the priceMany collectors with their InArt Jokers after they saw the JND teaser:
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And poor Hot Toys haven’t even released their Artisan Joker and they have to deal with this
This is downright revolutionary. If JND pull this off, they will change the whole hobby.
I'm sure the price will certainly turn away some in the hobby, but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts they sell everything they make. They appear to be using exciting, new technologies that no one else can offer and they're really engaging people in an emotional way - just look at the comments so far.Price will kick them in the balls right out of the gate.
Posing not withstanding, and not knowing the exact type of silicone used, it can last well beyond 5 years.In my experience, squishy faces and bodies don’t bode well in this hobby.
I’m interested in the figures that are going to last the next couple of decades, not the ones that will degrade in less than 5 years. If you keep the head or neck or fingers posed in anyway that isn’t what the mold “sock” was originally formed in, it’s going to crack, that’s just a given.
Be fun to to mess around with and pose and take pictures of for sure, but to keep? Nah. Doesn’t matter though, we’re at point in time in this hobby where most collectors rent the figure anyway. They make monthly payments then have it for a month before they sell it for the next one.
Posing not withstanding, and not knowing the exact type of silicone used, it can last well beyond 5 years.
From this manufacturers website:
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Hopefully, someone with more knowledge can post about the type of silicone JND is using and their expectancy for posing tolerances.
Based on that, I only hope that I can last longer than this figure
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