Kaustic Plastik Twin Peaks

[Kebron]

Can these ever be the same sculpt?

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Yes, lighting is very important and can drastically change how a sculpt looks.

 

[Mogli]

Here are a few dim pics in sunlight, when I had it under lamp light at night it looked better. I can see how I could get it close to the Kaustic Plastik IG pics with the right lighting, as mine looked much better than this under lamp light, but mine does look a bit shinier than those IG pics. These are video stills because photos were autocorrecting away details. I might update this at night with photos under a lamp.

 

[Scentless Apprentice]

Can these ever be the same sculpt?

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Camera phones distort an image if held too close to the subject. That's what looks like is happening in the first picture

 

[Wor-Gar]

how much it reminded me of old Sideshow figures from 20 years ago.

I have to say, I had this same reaction. Like this would go perfectly with their X-Files figures.

The suit, tailoring and body proportions do look better though.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

We need someone to do outdoor pictures of this, with a real camera and not a phone camera. Some of the lighting here is awful. If it looks good outside, then it’s a good figure. If it looks like crap outside then it’s a crap figure. To me it looks alright, but I’m this day and age alright isn’t good enough even if there are no other options.

 

[dantes2501]

It’s summer and there are 45 degrees outside, so it’s pretty sunny here. My pictures were taken with natural light with an iPhone 12 camera using 2x zoom.

My eyes cannot see what Kaustic Plastik’s shared under no condition. While the paint app looks better in hand, it’s still flat.

Here’s another picture taken with very low ambient light and a white led light source held 135 degreed above his head.

 

[Mogli]

Yeah sorry for my awful lighting, I am actually using a real camera but I suck at operating it lol. Here is the best I can do with natural lighting (by a window). The paint is definitely flat, I just hoped to convey how it looks very different with changes in lighting and it isn't as bad as photos might make it appear. But I don't think I could make it look like those IG pics lol. I'll stop spamming with my pics now lol

 

[Raymond F.]

So I opened it Monday night and here's the deal;

I want to applaud Kaustic/Infinity and the team for doing this license. The fact that they made this happen in 2023 is hard for me to be too harsh on them.

There is a lot of love put into this and the fact that it has talent behind it like Dario, Inigo and Sean Dabbs who are people I admire not only as artists but humans I can really appreciate this,

And I want to like it and though no fault of the people above but I do sadly think its a flop.

I want to start with the good - the box and presentation is nice the files, the mug - all cool touches that I adore. The dead Laura as creepy as it is is brilliant. The paint on this is fantastic and the realism of the body bag is incredible you can see it's fully painted underneath and I almost wish the bag was removable to see the artistry even though I realize that would be even MORE creepy.

The base is a tough one its massive which could be cool if it looked more realistic. It just can't cut it compared to some of the hobby shop nature scenes I have seen. For example the recent Asmus Gollum rock thingy has translucent water and far more realistic rock... The magnet works well and if I ever live in a place that's bigger than a 1 BR apartment I could se myself displaying it regardless of its sort of lackluster look.

Having art directed 4 Dale Coopers now - the older The Return one being the only one I'm happy with - and working on one at the moment that I really want to get right because it feels like it's the last chance, I can say that I think Inigo has a fantastic base sculpt here likeness wise. And I'm dying to see what the render looks like.

Because sadly it got totally ruined in production. Totally ruined. It's not only that the paint is flat (you can see they followed Dario's very nice template but it lacks the depth and nuance) but the sculpt is almost devout of detail. I stripped it and am almost done repainting it so I can confirm that there is barely any detail or texture there, and it's really challenging my skill level as a painter as I'm having to carefully paint in their detail that is absent. hairlines, eyebrows skin crevices etc... Whenever that happens you can only get it looking so realistic because it's going to look flat and doll like no matter what. The last time I felt with this kind of barely their soft sculpt was indeed a very old Sideshow figure - X-Files to be exact as previously mentioned here. Also the head is a bit small.

(I'll post the result on my instagram soon - here if I remember too but if you care at all best bet is to follow me there - handle in sig.)

What makes me saddest is that I know the Kaustic team has the chops - their KO Rocky has a great result in final product. Paint that is not caked on Ala Sideshow circa 2008, but nuanced transparent layers over a base PVC flesh tone and nice skin texturing etc. All that is absent here. It makes me wonder having known nothing about the production process here if Infinity is the one to blame on why the final product looks so dated.

As far as suit tailoring goes yeah it's not up to snuff with even the KO companies. It's hardto do a suit though in mass production. These days I have a hard time knocking anyone on that, again I am thrilled this even exists.

I'd be happy with the acessories and there's a few in here I really needed like the gun - but my friends DoggieDoc and StarPuffs put out an awesome set that looks much better you can't expect a mass item to match a custom though. I give them a pass on accessories TBH though the crane pin could have been a lot better/metal etc.

And I do like the base.

I will sadly give this a thumbs in the middle, if that's a thing. With most of the points going towards the dead Laura. I'm sure the team of incredible talents tried the best with what they had production wise, but I'll never hold back a critique. And this could have been much better.

I'd kill for this sculpt printed a bit more sized up direct from Inigo's render though if I'm being honest. I am however convinced that Dale Cooper will be one of those characters that never seems to be 100% right because he never looks the same. Very complicated face. At times I feel he goes very "Chandler Bing" and I think the Inigo sculpt captures him at his most Chandler Bingyness.

 

[choombaz]

Struggled to get decent shot of Coop. Will keep trying

 

[dantes2501]

Some outside shots. Better?

(Outside the window... but still outside!). To be clear, I like the figure overall and I am glad I bought it

 

[Evil_Deadite]

Guys, I think I finally discovered just the right lighting for this figure:

 

[Brokenhandpuppet]

Some outside shots. Better?

(Outside the window... but still outside!). To be clear, I like the figure overall and I am glad I bought it

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Mine just shipped, and I live in a small American town so I hope to get some nice pictures for everyone.

 

[blazio]

Wanted to buy but now im not so sure..It looks like a cheap doll..

 

[Mogli]

Wanted to buy but now im not so sure..It looks like a cheap doll..

It looks different when comparing my, dante's, and choombaz's photos, my last two photos above were my only photos where my camera didn't wash out the face details (the first two are unedited video stills), the shiny paint doesn't go well with digital corrections, I'd still recommend the video reviews for deciding if you want to buy this because I think those best show what it looks like in hand. I actually agree with a lot of the criticisms but I still like the figure lol

 

[Raymond F.]

Wanted to buy but now im not so sure..It looks like a cheap doll..

It 100% does sadly. even more so in person, some of the shots people were able to get here almost (with much effort it seems!) does it more justice than it does in hand.

 

[pixletwin]

I would have paid $180-220 for this set.

 

[Mike86]

That’s a shame. Kaustic Plastik has offered some good releases recently so I wonder how they dropped the ball on this so hard. Especially when it’s a pretty basic figure and the sculpt was the big thing to get right.

 

[BurningRage]

 

[Brokenhandpuppet]

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Wonderfully unexpected.

 

[choombaz]

Wonderfully unexpected.

Especially considering the guy had a huge falling out with David Lynch over money/credit etc and was replaced by a tree.