Decided to take the gamble on Rambo...here's a quick review. Will post some quality pics tomorrow.
First of all, just want to say I'm glad I took a chance on this. Maybe my expectations were well down due to all the negative reviews, but I'm actually pleasantly surprised with my one.
Firstly, the sculpt. It is outstanding. It's Stallone through and through. The body sculpt is also fantastic, as is the base. No complaints at all.
Paintjob. The quality of the paintjob is actually quite good on mine, although yes he is a little too dark. There is shading, freckles, nice details, but he is definitely on the brown side. In person I don't think it looks that bad, but I do think this would have benefited from being a shade or 2 lighter.
The base looks good on mine. I actually like the water effect more than the prototype, which I thought was too blue. On mine it has just the right amount of blue, leaning on the grey side. I was expecting this to look awful but was quite surprised with it to be honest.
The arrow is definitely too long, but it looks like its very easy to shorten if you wanted to. I have no intention of doing so at this point as it doesn't really bother me, but I may consider it down the track.
The hair is so so...I guess its as good as can be for sculpted hair.
The mixed media is also nicely done.
All in all, I like it. Its not a bad statue at all, but it does fall a little short. I think if the skin tone was less brown it would be a total winner for me, but I'm still happy to have it. It does need to be seen in person to appreciate it, as it certainly looks better than the pics suggest, and lighting is everything. I put this under my lighting statue display and it looks amazing.