I think anyone who buys this and says meh I'll just repaint it is a dope, like why pay that much then just spend more money to get it right?
I think anyone who buys this and says meh I'll just repaint it is a dope, like why pay that much then just spend more money to get it right?
standards should be raised when you raise the prices
I just finishing resculpting and repainting Trevor's old Lara Croft, also by Sideshow. I think I'll have to do the same to Drake if I get him.
C'mon Sideshow, we're not buying model kits here!
That's so much better than the stock head.
Thanks brother Pliss! Now to start planning for a contingency for the SCC Snake Plissken..
Or has dope painting skills.Or is on dope.
I pray it doesn't come down to that... I never bought a SSC figure outside of Vader, which I was very happy with but they completely botched the unmasked head. They just can't do human figures well at all.
Or has dope painting skills.
I understand it's preferable for SSC to offer a quality product right out of the box, but if you see it's not up to the standard you want, but are prepared to improve it yourself, & have the skills to, if you get a satisfying figure out of it, why not?
I'm curious to see how it turns out if you do give it a repaint. Must be pretty cool to have that skill.
Uh oh. Define "botched ".
The paint was passable, no complaints about it. But the problem was how the head was glued into the bottom of the mask. The head was crookedly put in. I asked for a replacement and they sent me another head with the same problem...
I got lucky otherwise, no problems with the figure at all. But people were getting broken pieces of the mask, and lights that didn't work.
Or has dope painting skills.
I understand it's preferable for SSC to offer a quality product right out of the box, but if you see it's not up to the standard you want, but are prepared to improve it yourself, & have the skills to, if you get a satisfying figure out of it, why not?
I'm curious to see how it turns out if you do give it a repaint. Must be pretty cool to have that skill.
standards should be raised when you raise the prices
Im new to this hobby and I gotta ask... does this happen often!? By the reactions on this thread it doesn't seem to be the case, but still, I'm curious.
Trevor confirmed that man, he said it is his; but they modified the sculpt. This is what they did:
They molded Trevors, used probably hydrospan 100 grow cast (water to grow it), molded it again and casted. Then cut the seem around hair fixed eyes for sockets. Them took the 2 halves and molded it and used hydrospan 400 shrink cast (water to shrink it) and that's why it's distorted. Even Denny said when Q did recasts of Cowboy it causes the sculpt to distort cause it's not original.
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The SSC figures I own (Harley Quinn, Catwoman, Storm Shadow v2) don't really need to copy a certain look exactly, so there is freedom there. So it comes down to whether you like the artistic direction of those figures, rather than whether it looks like a certain version of the character. With Drake & portraits based on real life peeps, it's different. I don't really have that experience with figures of that kind from SSC.Oh thanks Lawrence, it's practice and patience, but I'm no pro. From what I can tell, Drake's paint app is pretty bad, certainly not worth your hard earned cash. Now if SCC were to lower the price so we can get our heads to be commissioned by a professional painter here on SSF, that would be tempting.
Aside from Lara, I don't own any Sideshow products. is this always the case?
I guess peeps have different tolerance levels. Actually, if the figure cost me $170, I might be thinking more about whether I want to bother with it, but it's $139.99 for me. Using one of those frequent SSC discount codes might makes things a bit more tolerable for some, but not for others.I understand that but we are talking about $170 figure here, it should be perfect right out of the box, it looks like Adventure Ken to go with your Tomb Raider Barbie
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