Moria ORC PF

[Mesa]

Don't hurt me!

I did it anyway even after I said I would not do it.

I weathered it!

It took me some time to think it over, once I started I could not stop. I was scared because I was thinking, am I destroying a 300 dollar statue? The great news is NO.

Please know that it is my choice to do this. I am not telling anyone here to do it. I am just letting you know that I am altering my statue and the means to how I am doing it.

I was able to get the clothing and leather darker with just an application of stain.
The stain used was minwax golden oak wood finish that I have (from W al M art ). The cool part about the stain is that you don't have to worry about an oops onto the statue because it wipes right off. Don't just slap it on, you should still be carefull about applying it to the clothes and leather.

He looks 100% better with just the stain! I don't know the long term effects of using this stain but it did work. Note: the stain smell will go away with time.

The next step for me is to dirty him up a bit. I am checking my model paints and pastel chalks to see what will give me the desired look. That task will be attempted today.

There are some red hot spots from the flash but overall you can see the progress from just the stain alone.

I don't know, just looks like a deeper red now. I think the objective would be to mach the sculpted maroon color of the arms/legs.

 

[dtssyst]

It looks fantastic in person.
The flash is still giving hot spots and dark spots. Sorry about that.
Step 1: Stain...see earlier post.

Step 2: Black pastel chalk ground then applied with a paint brush. Chalk then wiped with cloth, paper towl, or clean brush for desired effect.

Step 3: Highlights to bring it all back together to match the arms/legs. I am not sure what to do/use at the moment.

Step 4: Not sure at this time on the grey cloth so it will remain grey until I or someone comes up with a weather technique for it.

More to come, thanks for looking.

 

[The Ringer]

Looks great with Frodo IMO!

To those who have it, is the non ex head more head than little so it can be placed at Frodo's feet as per Loki's idea?

 

[maskfreak]

I hope this will not become a new trend with future product lines. I really contemplated getting the orc. I stuck with Indy instead.

 

[Isildur's bane]

Well, we can only hope that the complaining (the constructive criticism anyway) will help to avoid situations like this in the future.

It won't because as long as people order this thinking "no big deal I can weather it myself" Sideshow can pull this again, and people will still buy because of that mentality.

 

[The Josh]

It won't because as long as people order this thinking "no big deal I can weather it myself" Sideshow can pull this again, and people will still buy because of that mentality.

You say "pull this again" like SS had some master plan to screw people over.

 

[dtssyst]

Bad Weather (ice) + Low Light + NO flash from camera = the best I can do with what I have.

 

[icruise]

OMG Sideshow left off his hand!

Looks pretty good though.

 

[Reefer Shark]

Yeah, nice job! Looks much better like this.

 

[The Josh]

Lost his arm in battle I see.

 

[dtssyst]

Lost his arm in battle I see.

Frodo won the first round!

Did someone call for a ?

 

[Isildur's bane]

You say "pull this again" like SS had some master plan to screw people over.

You apparently only look at face value. What I meant was that they could make another drastic change to a product due to whatever legitimate reasons and this same situation would occur all over again of not putting updated pics etc. but in the end they know people would still buy the product and change it themselves.

Well if you're happy with poor Quality Control then more power to you.

 

[The Josh]

They should have updated the site well before it shipped. However, after looking at the pics they have of the production piece it looks pretty good.

 

[crazytrain]

They should have updated the site well before it shipped. However, after looking at the pics they have of the production piece it looks pretty good.

Problem is all the production pieces are different so this isn't "the"production piece its just "a" production piece and its fairly obvious to see that, whilst this one is indeed not bad, some people have already received some fairly terrible ones. Its going to be pot luck and at the moment nobody has any idea as to how widespread the problem is. If they would accept that a bright red outfit is a defect and would refund the shipping then I would be happy to take a chance, but they won't. For me in the UK, taking pot luck could leave me out of pocket to the tune of $150 or so. I said I'd update you on the response from SS. Essentially its "if you're not happy, cancel". Well, thanks a lot Sideshow...

 

[quadcent]

well i said i wouldn't cancel mine, but after looking at the pics posted on here, i cancelled.
not because of the red/maroon, but because i just can't ever see myself displaying this guy with the helmet head. so i'll pick a regular version on the secondary market, and most likely save myself some $$$ off of retail and save on brokerage since ss refuses to ship by mail.

 

[Wish]

not because of the red/maroon, but because i just can't ever see myself displaying this guy with the helmet head.

Hmm, interesting. I can't see myself displaying it without the helmet, so I'm eagerly awaiting more pics of the Ex.
Still leaning towards canceling it though, considering all aspects of the "Red Gate" affair, especially because I already have the Weta duo.

 

[Seaward]

I have mine coming from Alter Ego on Christmas Eve. This will make an excellent little birthday present to myself!!! I've seeing the "red" pictures that some others have gotten in hand, and I hope that the color is a little more muted in person, but I wouldn't be against weathering it a little on my own. The sculpture looks amazing, but much like the Aragorn duster in the 1:6 line, the pleather just looks too new and clean. Finances have constrained me to collecting just one line of collectibles, and I am glad I am keeping up with the LOTR Premium Format line!

 

[beachfox]

Found this Christmas Elf for sale... free shipping too.

https://cgi.ebay.com/Sideshow-Colle...286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66:4|65:10|39:1|240:1318

 

[Darth Rage]

Found this Christmas Elf for sale... free shipping too.

https://cgi.ebay.com/Sideshow-Colle...286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66:4|65:10|39:1|240:1318

It says "Star Wars Speeder Bike and Scout Trooper" above the pics.

 

[Darklord Dave]

Thanks to Dusty for commenting and apologies to her for the rudeness of many of the board members.

Hopefully once more of these start hitting, this will become a non-issue.