Official NECA Terminator Thread

[a-dev]

I want to see pics aswell. ****ing wish I wasn't going out now. Didn't think I'd get this today.

 

[DiFabio]

Bring it with you! You can take selfies with your very own Terminator.

How is the mini gun? Obviously not as nice as the EB, but is it quality?

 

[a-dev]

Bring it with you! You can take selfies with your very own Terminator.

How is the mini gun? Obviously not as nice as the EB, but is it quality?

It's a little smaller than the Enterbay one and doesn't have any metal parts or that decal on the main body but it's no embarrassment by any means. The barrels do indeed rotate, everything is completely straight and it has that curly bit that's missing on the Enterbay (and possibly also the HT) minigun - that part that wraps under the ammo-chain.

The figure's own sunglasses fit extremely well but unfortunately they don't have any transparency. I shone a really bright flashlight on them, there's nothing. Not a major deal though.

 

[jye4ever]

Wait the minigun is even smaller than the already undersized EB minigun lol

I have $110 TrU gift card in my wallet...hmmmm.

Should I piss off the wife or not is the question.

 

[snoop101]

What else are you going to use the gift card on? When it shows up Say you got it for her.

 

[snoop101]

The glasses not being transparent kind of sucks. Everything else sounds good.

 

[jye4ever]

Good point I know beneath her love of lingerie, perfumes and heels is an even greater love of 1/4 scale action figures.

Thanks for opening my eyes.

 

[snoop101]

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[Staps1138]

Wait the minigun is even smaller than the already undersized EB minigun lol

I have $110 TrU gift card in my wallet...hmmmm.

Should I piss off the wife or not is the question.

Go for it, who knows how long you may have to use it with all the TRU rumblings. Besides that amount should cover most of the the expense and you could always say it was on sale. Isn't that what the wives always say - lol?

 

[DiFabio]

Wait the minigun is even smaller than the already undersized EB minigun lol

I have $110 TrU gift card in my wallet...hmmmm.

Should I piss off the wife or not is the question.

Just buy it and say it was a gift if she sees it. You can even blame me for it if you want.

 

[jye4ever]

She just said...”Oh he’s back” lol

She wants to ban the entire forum from my life

 

[a-dev]

I'm ****ing hammered drunk, just got myself home. Still think the NECA 1:4 is a superior 1991 Arnold Schwarzenegger than the Enterbay.

Snoop101 should be delighted with how the Battle Across Time look diplays.

The strength of the left arm to hold up the heavy Enterbay Shotgun is a matter of concern though. The wrist joints are not strong.

 

[a-dev]

I should also say for people's clarity - the Enterbay Clean T-800 is taller than the NECA version by at least a half of a head.

 

[snoop101]

at your hammered drunk comment.

Yeah I'm excited to get this, which is something I never thought I would say regarding this figure and the negativity surrounding Necas Terminator line as of late. Now I need to find a decent 1/4 plasma rifle.

 

[a-dev]

I'm glad that's all I seem to have posted last night. I was indeed hammered.

Looking my posts over I expressed much enthusiasm for the figure - and most of that was before I got drunk so I stand by it.

Sorry I still have no pics - that issue with the lower leg joint not being properly seated isn't the easy fix I assumed it would be - it just will not go in all the way so I'm going to have to shave the joint down or drill the hollow deeper in his leg and I haven't yet had time to do that. Seems like there's always gotta be something wrong to either reduce or delay my enjoyment of these NECA 1:4s.

 

[jye4ever]

Good thing NECA doesn’t make car brakes or airplane engines.

 

[Lord Freezer]

 

[a-dev]

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I've passed on that and the flying HK. Just wasn't excited enough about them and then when the inaccuracies were exposed in this thread I took that as my excuse not to spend the money. Oddly I'm more interested in the Alien/Aliens Cinemachines yet to come.









As is often the case what looks great in my camera's viewfinder ends up not so great in the actual shot but here's my 1:4 T-800





^^ the wrist joints unfortunately are far too weak for him to hold up the Enterbay shotgun (which is real wood and metal) - the plasma rifle from the Hot Toys Endoskeleton is just plastic and he has an easier time with that.







^^Enterbay Minigun, M79 and ammo bag. These are all bigger than their NECA equivalents. The M79 falls off his shoulder annoyingly often though






^^in an effort to be realistic about what we're getting - here's a closer look at his face without the glasses







^^I love the neck on these NECA sculpts. Something that Hot Toys and Enterbay paid no particular heed to, Hot Toys being the worst offender with the DX10 and MMS238.
-First shot is Enterbay sunglasses (needed small blob of tac to keep them on above his ear)
-There's a weird bubble in his hair in these shots, which I couldn't unsee once I noticed it. I sliced it out afterwards.
-You can see how a high-end paint job would blend the hairline and eyebrows - it's totally stark here, brown hair/skin. Otherwise not too bad with the sunglasses hiding the eyes.






^^he can pull off a pretty good mantis pose! I was pleasantly surprised by this. And that left hand sculpt better facilitates him to properly hold the forward handle at the appropriate angle without either having no grip or holding it too loosely like the Hot Toys. It's possible NECA may have observed the proper pose from the movie whereas Hot Toys assumed - like most of us once did - that he holds the gun down by his waist and sculpted the hands according to that.




^^lastly here is my Galleria test-run before I ultimately set him up as he is intended. This is him wearing the Enterbay black T-shirt under his jacket. There is space at his waist to actually tuck it into the trousers - however it would really need to be sleeveless as the bunched sleeves cause the jacket not to fit as it should - bulks him out too much, prevents the collar from sitting snug to the neck etc. So I'll have to go the painting route for the black T-shirt....some sort of spray-paint job that I imagine even I could do? (dismantling the figure to do it of course) - I've already bought another figure to do this with. This one will stay as he now is.

As for the hands - I'm going to sacrifice the hand joints from the Enterbay figures - one that came spare with the BD T-800 (you know that useless bare arm they provided for people to use instead of the BD endo-arm and yet they didn't provide a jacket with a full sleeve to cover it) and the other joint coming from the clean Enterbay T-800 since that one will forevermore be a Dyson's house Endo-arm reveal figure. Some drilling will be needed to get the Enterbay joints to fit the NECA figure but once they do I could use any of the hands from the Enterbay figures including that cool reload hand* or whatever it is - no one else other than Enterbay thought to provide such a hand sculpt. These joints should have the strength for him to use the Shotgun. Anyway despite the overall size differences between the NECA and Enterbay figures (NECA being slightly smaller), the hands are the same size so that should work out nicely.



Fair ****s to ya if you read all that.



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[ShadowGuardian]

Thanks for all that! I read it all. For the price I definitely love what I see.

 

[jye4ever]

Quick put those sunglasses back on him lol.

EB minigun was undersized to begin with, no?

EB sunglasses definately nicer than NECA’s that’s for certain.

Great pose although it might be just a tad bit too high.