JND Studios: Aragorn 1/3 Statue

[GaryPool]

here it is if you're in this private facebook group:


So maybe they did do all the silicone themselves but when she's put together it's with parts which may not have been painted together

I saw some comments as a joke in various posts but can't recall a specific post regarding it, what you linked says it doesn't exist anymore, though.

Either way, it is what it is now, doubt anything can be done about it, still got a bit of the skirt broken from customs. JND said they can fix it but need the whole statue, not sure I want to risk sending the statue in again and come back with another issue or for customs to open it up again.

Regarding face sculpts of JND they are, for me at least, around the 90% or above. I've said countless times that the overall presence of the statues more than make up for not being 100% bang on. I think the arguments of saying collectors just say they're good to make themselves feel good about the purchase is dead in the water. It'd be a just point if it was regarding one statue but most collectors have several.

With this release, for my eyes Queen Studios looks better, I do like the more regal BTS look with nicely draping clothing and the face and especially the hair look better. However, I still really like the look of this, for me this represents the film a lot more whereas the Queen is more the character. Again, I'm not risking a huge quality drop from Queen, I'd rather wait and see if I got the wrong piece.

 

[RJTVFX]

I saw some comments as a joke in various posts but can't recall a specific post regarding it, what you linked says it doesn't exist anymore, though.

Either way, it is what it is now, doubt anything can be done about it, still got a bit of the skirt broken from customs. JND said they can fix it but need the whole statue, not sure I want to risk sending the statue in again and come back with another issue or for customs to open it up again.

Regarding face sculpts of JND they are, for me at least, around the 90% or above. I've said countless times that the overall presence of the statues more than make up for not being 100% bang on. I think the arguments of saying collectors just say they're good to make themselves feel good about the purchase is dead in the water. It'd be a just point if it was regarding one statue but most collectors have several.

With this release, for my eyes Queen Studios looks better, I do like the more regal BTS look with nicely draping clothing and the face and especially the hair look better. However, I still really like the look of this, for me this represents the film a lot more whereas the Queen is more the character. Again, I'm not risking a huge quality drop from Queen, I'd rather wait and see if I got the wrong piece.

That's weird maybe it does that when it's private links, the post was of JND's email response to the customer. Maybe need to see a couple years from now if there's any issues with the silicone. That sucks about the skirt I hate hearing all these things about customs messing with stuff.
90% likeness is very generous but we all see things differently, I saw someone say they now hold JND to the Harley Quinn 2.0 standard since they've shownt they are able to get such good likeness which is kind of how I feel too. But I am very interested to see if Queen drop the ball with production, they'd be very stupid to not give this all of their attention.

 

[roan]

Also, funnily enough it's actually a lot of JND collectors that are able to criticize the pieces without pure blindness of love for them. It's mostly non-collectors here that absolutely love to hate on every release in spite of seemingly not liking the company or the products.

Thank you, couldn’t have said it better.

 

[Chopper Face]

A couple people have already mentioned the Queen Art looking better, yet no one wants to take a risk on it.

This is where I’m at. If we could put the JND duster in QS and guarantee QS could actually replicate the proto, I’d be willing to PO.

Either one would be the most expensive thing I’ve ever purchased. Waiting for a local store to list them so I can really see how much one would set me back.

Typically, due to the immense markups, I just take the average price in dollars and replace the $ with a £.

 

[RJTVFX]

This is where I’m at. If we could put the JND duster in QS and guarantee QS could actually replicate the proto, I’d be willing to PO.

Either one would be the most expensive thing I’ve ever purchased. Waiting for a local store to list them so I can really see how much one would set me back.

Typically, due to the immense markups, I just take the average price in dollars and replace the $ with a £.

I'd say usually more than that with our import tax over here, it might cost me £1000 extra when JND Guts is ready to ship from Spec since I couldn't find a UK retailer and for example JND Indiana Jones from the UK retailer Collectiblesdirect was almost £1400 more than direct