BTW just going to share the following for comparison. Maybe helpful in terms of easing anxieties... maybe not:
Here's my brand new, straight from XM Venom at normal viewing distance:
here's a zoomed in shot. there's a pit mark from the casting process and the area around it is slightly uneven and painted over:
If I go around the statue and inspect every crevice and take zoomed in pics I will probably find 3,4,5,6 more of these similar casting/painting imperfections. No statue is immune, but Sideshow does seem to have more of these minor imperfections with more of their statues than Prime 1 or XM does.
Here's my brand new, straight from XM Venom at normal viewing distance:
here's a zoomed in shot. there's a pit mark from the casting process and the area around it is slightly uneven and painted over:
If I go around the statue and inspect every crevice and take zoomed in pics I will probably find 3,4,5,6 more of these similar casting/painting imperfections. No statue is immune, but Sideshow does seem to have more of these minor imperfections with more of their statues than Prime 1 or XM does.