I just got this figure and it's really one of Sideshow's best. There are inaccuracies to the helmet and chestbox (that are screamingly obvious to me, but I recently rebuilt the Marmit so know the ref pics well) but the extreme crispness of the detail and flawless paint apps - even under a magnifying glass - is really something. What I love is it feels like a real costume shrunken down.
And the rifle is simply the best EX accessory I've ever gotten - it's amazingly well designed/engineered but really gets the nostalgia buzz going too. I thought I'd use it every so often but it goes with the figure really well, so I'll be displaying him that way.
Overall, the Marmit still wins in overall helmet accuracy but like their stormie/sandie, the Marmit vinyl material is a fairly soft sculpt in comparison to the ultra-crisp newer efforts. If Marmit had today's technology, it's amazing to think how good their figures would have been.
The one thing I really dislike about the SSC figure is - yet again - the body. The legs flop around and can't hold a pose, the hips are too wide (giving the slight pear shape) and the arms just can never lay flat alongside the body. The neck joint is loose so the head flops around (though the pipes help support it.) The wrist joints are also too tight, meaning when you try to swap the hands, the wrist pegs pull out of the (slightly rubbery) hands and stay in the wrist and need pliers to remove. It makes it very difficult to swap hands. It also makes the figure more than a 1/4" too tall.
I may try to tweak the SSC helmet with paint to make it a bit more accurate, but not sure yet as it is pretty damn cool. I couldn't put this thing down for an hour after I opened it.
