Cool! I went ahead and placed the order last night. It was a great deal IMO. Can't freaking wait to see this bust in my collection! 
Smaug bust
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Anyone know the approx. scale of this bust?
The large full body Smaug is 1/72, and it's head is much smaller so I would guess around 1/24 for the bust.
I got Smaug and he's pretty fantastic. Very happy with my decision to purchase him.
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Jrobertson
Super Freak
I still really want to pick this up at some point.
I actually like the bust more than the full body piece which I almost never do. I just got my 3rd and it looks ok apart from some paint rubbing near the back.
Mine had a very, very minuscule amount of paint rubbing from the wax paper sticking to the bust, but it wasn't anything major as I was very careful when I was peeling the paper off it. I can easily do some minor touch ups in the future, but it's not a priority or even really necessary.
All 3 of mine had paint rubs from the paper, they should have used something else. The first 2 had other major problems so I really did not care, but the newest one has 3 areas of rubbing. I guess I will have to live with it, who knows if #4 would be better.
Some small touch up and boom, you're done. I know it's not ideal, but I always expect to have to touch up a piece when I order something due to a couple of reasons:
1) Shipping and packaging can cause rubs/breaks that may occur. If I can fix something with super glue and/or a little touch up paint and it can be as good as new without noticing it, then I'm fine with that.
2) These are coming out of factories where they are painting hundreds at a time. Human error is bound to happen on a number of them and I don't expect perfection from humans working in that type of environment.
1) Shipping and packaging can cause rubs/breaks that may occur. If I can fix something with super glue and/or a little touch up paint and it can be as good as new without noticing it, then I'm fine with that.
2) These are coming out of factories where they are painting hundreds at a time. Human error is bound to happen on a number of them and I don't expect perfection from humans working in that type of environment.
Honestly that is not something we should have to deal with, unless it is very minor. That is why they pay people to design their packaging. While never expect perfection, issues are something QC should be looking out for, again why pay someone to check them if they still get through with issues. Although they sometimes half a$$ repair stuff and that actually makes it worse. That is what happed with my 2nd bust.
My rubs are over a large area, not going to be easy and color matching is a PITA. I will probably just leave it as it kind of looks like battle damage. Already went through repairs with the full body Smaug that had a cracked leg I had to fix.
I fixed a cracked part of the wing on my full Smaug too, but I didn't notice that at the time I got him so I'm not even sure it was there the whole time. Might've been something that I did or that just developed. I was pissed at first when I found it, but then I had some fun trying to fix it and paint it. All better now 
I fixed a cracked part of the wing on my full Smaug too, but I didn't notice that at the time I got him so I'm not even sure it was there the whole time. Might've been something that I did or that just developed. I was pissed at first when I found it, but then I had some fun trying to fix it and paint it. All better now
Mine happened in shipping for sure, the whole leg cracked all the way around and it was like that the day I opened it. It was hard to work on without breaking something else while I was in there, everything is so fragile, plus at least 3 different color matches I had to do.
They gave me a credit, but what a pain that was too though, they could not figure how to credit my card and wanted my banking info!
Pork Chop Express
I never drive faster than I can see...
I like the way this looks. Depending on where I'm at with my collection/collecting and availability I'd pick this up. If I never get it daddy Smaug will be enough.
Amazing photos! These are some of the best I've ever seen 
Figurefreaks
Super Freak
Very nice pictures Archo
Couldn't be more happy with this bust ...so much details ...it's soooooooooo awesome.
Couldn't be more happy with this bust ...so much details ...it's soooooooooo awesome.
Pork Chop Express
I never drive faster than I can see...
Very nice pics, really shows this piece well.
joblain
Super Freak
That's true, pics are really good. Paint is better than I thought. Is it the same with the other smaug statue?
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Ordered this guy a week and a half ago and he still hasn't shipped.
Emailed Weta and they said they missed my order somehow.
Paid $102 for shipping. Can't believe he hasn't been sent out yet.
I hope I get him in one piece. It's -22C here and getting colder. Things tend to break in transit when it's this cold.
Emailed Weta and they said they missed my order somehow.
Paid $102 for shipping. Can't believe he hasn't been sent out yet.
I hope I get him in one piece. It's -22C here and getting colder. Things tend to break in transit when it's this cold.
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