Rainmans Dr. Huckleberry

[Cap'n Cook]

Re: Rainmans New Project: Dr. Huckleberry

Cheers for the input guys.

What I thought would be the consensus on both and certainly my opinion on the matter. Will see what Rainman comes back with.

 

[Remy]

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Are the guns in the pictures metal or resin?
Either one is not a deal breaker but something about having an actual metal gun seems more appealing. It's rare. Much like HT Thor's hammer or Jack Sparrow's sword, it's just cool to have real metal parts. Kinda leaning towards metal. Same reason why the cup is gonna be cool since its gonna be metal.
All the hot toys guns that i have, although they have great paintjob...they still look toyish to me. I think you have to be careless or just bad luck to scrape the paint off. I've yet to hear anybody scrape the paint of Thor's hammer, and I've dropped that several times.
This is a rare collectible figure, sometimes, there's these little detail that others may not notice, but still that little detail that makes it even more special. When I was a kid, I used to have a 1/6 cowboy figure that had a real metal gun and I thought it was the coolest thing. So, again, not a deal breaker but I think I prefer metal.

Also, even if its inaccurate, I prefer the cylinder next to the barrel.

 

[melanarus]

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I love the metal guns idea, but perhaps casting it as a one piece cast (gun and cylinder cast together) would help ensure no small parts would break.

 

[turbo.VS.ozone]

Re: Rainmans New Project: Dr. Huckleberry

Are the guns in the pictures metal or resin?
Either one is not a deal breaker but something about having an actual metal gun seems more appealing. It's rare. Much like HT Thor's hammer or Jack Sparrow's sword, it's just cool to have real metal parts. Kinda leaning towards metal. Same reason why the cup is gonna be cool since its gonna be metal.
All the hot toys guns that i have, although they have great paintjob...they still look toyish to me. I think you have to be careless or just bad luck to scrape the paint off. I've yet to hear anybody scrape the paint of Thor's hammer, and I've dropped that several times.
This is a rare collectible figure, sometimes, there's these little detail that others may not notice, but still that little detail that makes it even more special. When I was a kid, I used to have a 1/6 cowboy figure that had a real metal gun and I thought it was the
coolest thing.So, again, not a deal breaker but I think I prefer metal.

Also, even if its inaccurate, I prefer the cylinder next to the barrel.

The metal guns or the idea of it pushes/advances those 1/6 limits even further. I think collectors have grown accustomed to become excited at Rainmans new advance techniques in the hobby, similar to Butcher Bills mustache which was an epic detail.

 

[Cap'n Cook]

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Must say, I am personally against metal guns. You lose a lot of detail.

 

[Calcifer]

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Look at those first wip pics of the guns and tell me you didn't think they were metal to begin with, resin is the way to go! you will have better detail and rainmans paint will ensure it will look realistic.

 

[Remy]

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Must say, I am personally against metal guns. You lose a lot of detail.

Look at those first wip pics of the guns and tell me you didn't think they were metal to begin with, resin is the way to go! you will have better detail and rainmans paint will ensure it will look realistic.

On the opinion of metal or resin, it wasn't specified at first that detail would be lost if he uses metal. If you do lose detail by making it metal, then I agree that resin is the way to go. But if there are no detail loss by going metal...and if it's only for the sake of being safe and worrying about paint stripping, or mishandling and breaking it, I'd still rather have metal for it being unique.

So, if it won't look as good as in the picture, then resin will work.
As I mentioned, it's not a deal breaker but would be cool if it's metal if it's the same quality as in the picture.

 

[greatlakes6]

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You definitely need the cylinder pins to be on the gun. Interpretation or not, movie vs. the real gun that Holliday used, both have the cylinders attached.

 

[Cap'n Cook]

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You definitely need the cylinder pins to be on the gun. Interpretation or not, movie vs. the real gun that Holliday used, both have the cylinders attached.

Also the metal casts will definitely not look as detailed. If you look back at the resin proto gun for Stansfield compared to the one piece metal casts that were in the production pieces it speaks for itself.

 

[melanarus]

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If he has to paint all those resin revolver parts metallic, all those moving parts are going to have paint scratches on them the first time you move them around (Unless he casts the revolver in 1-2 pieces or casts in metallic colored resin, if that's possible) and that's why I would want them metal too. Plus metal guns would be cool!

 

[Remy]

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Snake,
I didnt follow the stansfield thread cause i didnt particularly have an interest for the character so i just went through it just now and you are correct, theres a huge huge difference on the quality. The degration going to metal is indeed apparant. Lots of lost detail. The resin proto was much much better than the final metal gun.

So, I also change my stance, Add me to the RESIN bandwagon as well

 

[Cap'n Cook]

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Cheers Remy.

That was all I was getting at. Metal casts are a great idea but not if all that amazing Rainman detail has to be sacrificed.

 

[melanarus]

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For reference to the metal gun:

Resin:

Painted resin:

Final metal gun (looks to be a one piece cast, no moving parts. Could look better with a little weathering)

Just give us Both resin and metal Rainman, I'll pay the extra $! Or cast each piece in metal and glue them together non moving to get better detail.

 

[uscmhicks]

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Yep , the one thing I think could have been more impressive with my Stansfield personally was the gun.
Looking at the painted resin photo and then at what I received it is a little disappointing but I can understand the reasons it ends up like that.

 

[meth head]

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For reference to the metal gun:

Resin:

Painted resin:

Final metal gun (looks to be a one piece cast, no moving parts. Could look better with a little weathering)

Just give us Both resin and metal Rainman, I'll pay the extra $! Or cast each piece in metal and glue them together non moving to get better detail.

If that doesn't settle the argument then I don't know what will.

Resin all the way!

There is a huge difference between the two so I hope Rainman goes with resin. I am pretty sure the majority are swaying that way anyway.

 

[greatlakes6]

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Definitely Resin, detail/realism is the most important to me.

 

[rainmanking]

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Hi~~ how are you?~
I am waiting outfit from my tailor.
I think i may get soon.^^

and
I am thinking about DX set.
I was thinking "DX is Sickly head"
But....I painted this head today..

It was so difficult to paint.

There is more and more works. haha.

but this is very charming.
It can change well by magnet
Give me Power for decide!^^

 

[DarthMagnus]

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Awesome! Love the sweat detail! A great DX choice! I say go for it Rainman!

 

[Cap'n Cook]

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Man that looks amazing Rainman!! DX with that is a cool option I think.

 

[Calcifer]

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That looks incredible!!

Not only is the likeness great but that expressions is spot on!

Ideally the standard sculpt should have sweat on it too but if it's that difficult an effect to paint I'm happy with it being a dx exclusive.