SS paint apps

[pixletwin]

They can't get it perfect when it's produced on such a large scale. The paint will always suck.

Yep. The sooner people accept this the happier they will be.

Les, I think you suck. You are a terrible skin tone painter... Can I get a freebie too?

 

[galactiboy]

The eyes on this Luke don't seem to have any red in the whites... but there is a rim of reddish/pink around the eye and strangely the iris. Close/blown up it looks bad, but when in hand its okay. I think de-graying the skin tone, as Les said, would have made a world of difference on this one.

Which to me is more the fault of the supervisors than the factory workers.

 

[dekadentdave]

Give me a job doing QC for SS and you will never see that problem again. Of course, that means all of your orders will be delayed months and months later because of all of the QC rejections.

 

[user 1190]

Me and Swabie were talking to Heath tonight and he was talking just about this. We were talking about some of the paint jobs. He was saying the way they paint and the type of paint is very hard to hand paint and that even he has a hard time with it. They were saying how Jabba has something like 100+ paint layers to get the coloring they wanted. I don't think its a lack of skill it just with as many as they do some are bound to be a lil messed up.

 

[Sachiel]

I'd pay more for some better done outfits.

 

[MaulFan]

Me and Swabie were talking to Heath tonight and he was talking just about this. We were talking about some of the paint jobs. He was saying the way they paint and the type of paint is very hard to hand paint and that even he has a hard time with it. They were saying how Jabba has something like 100+ paint layers to get the coloring they wanted. I don't think its a lack of skill it just with as many as they do some are bound to be a lil messed up.

It's not the little messups of an eyebrow being uneven on 1 out of 1000 or anything like that, it's the mishaps that effect the entire production line that concern people, like Anakin's lips, which given a good line of perfect lip tones in other figures, is clearly a flop that occurred to late for QC to do anything and has nothing to do with the talents or anything of the paints, but rather someone just grabbed the wrong shade or something and it was used throughout the entire run. However, at the same time, you get figures like T-1000 which, other than some getting figures with a red-eye look, has a splending paint job from skin to ahir and is one of the most realistic and amazing figures from Sideshow of late, as far as paint goes. Sometimes accidents happy like with Anakin, and the only way to truly avoid those would be to heavily baby sit the production to halt the line the second something is consistenly coming out off.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

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[Mudshark]

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I've been in Tasmania, where the people have two heads. It has given me an idea. Announcing the new Sideshow Customizer exclusive. When pre-ordering, tick a box that asks for an unpainted head to be included with the factory head. Once more than, say 300 requests have been met, the exclusive will be produced for those wishing it. Maybe a pipe dream now, but might be possible in the future. At a price, I dare say. Maybe that would keep the increase down to a minimum without costing too much in production.

I really like the idea of including an unpainted head as an exclusive, maybe even an alternate head sculpt with a different expression. I don't know if SSC would ever go for something like that, but it's not a bad idea at all... for people who'd like to do their own painting, that is.

 

[user 1190]

It's not the little messups of an eyebrow being uneven on 1 out of 1000 or anything like that, it's the mishaps that effect the entire production line that concern people, like Anakin's lips, which given a good line of perfect lip tones in other figures, is clearly a flop that occurred to late for QC to do anything and has nothing to do with the talents or anything of the paints, but rather someone just grabbed the wrong shade or something and it was used throughout the entire run. However, at the same time, you get figures like T-1000 which, other than some getting figures with a red-eye look, has a splending paint job from skin to ahir and is one of the most realistic and amazing figures from Sideshow of late, as far as paint goes. Sometimes accidents happy like with Anakin, and the only way to truly avoid those would be to heavily baby sit the production to halt the line the second something is consistenly coming out off.

I agree I am just trying to give you guys some insite that I have gotten. These are things we have asked about just stuff I have heard either in panels or talking with some of the employees this week.

 

[MaulFan]

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Undeniably nice, but still doesn't have the matte, real skin quality that a number of SSC paint apps have, which is the quality I like about SSC above all others, not the mixing or the consistency or any of that, I think everyone is about equal there, but a textural quality that really takes it from looking like a toy to almost looking like a shrunken person. HT Rambos look like great figures, but that they are figures is unmistakable, but with some of SSC's figures, like T-1000, the heads freak you out how realistic they look.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

Undeniably nice, but still doesn't have the matte, real skin quality that a number of SSC paint apps have, which is the quality I like about SSC above all others, not the mixing or the consistency or any of that, I think everyone is about equal there, but a textural quality that really takes it from looking like a toy to almost looking like a shrunken person. HT Rambos look like great figures, but that they are figures is unmistakable, but with some of SSC's figures, like T-1000, the heads freak you out how realistic they look.

True, the flash in this photo obviously makes Rambo look shiny but in hand the Rambo/Rocky figs have the same matte finish as SSC. Even Luke looks shiny under the flash.

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[Khev]

No production 1/6 scale SW figure has had this level of paint quality from any company. I would pay more to get it this way (and I plan to thanks to the amazing customizers around here.)

Maybe SS should charge $30 less and just send us the figures unpainted.

 

[MaulFan]

True, the flash in this photo obviously makes Rambo look shiny but in hand the Rambo/Rocky figs have the same matte finish as SSC. Even Luke looks shiny under the flash.

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I own all Rambos and Rocky, and some SSC figures have a same sheen to them, but others, like T-1000, Obi-Wan, Borormir, have an even more matte finish that takes them above and beyond, and that's what I love and why I put SSC above all others.

 

[dekadentdave]

AHHHHHHH!!!!! MY EYES!!!! MY EYES!!!!!!! MUST... LOOK...AWAY...

 

[orbitingx]

AHHHHHHH!!!!! MY EYES!!!! MY EYES!!!!!!! MUST... LOOK...AWAY...

Sorry, to add another log on the fire or offend anyone who enjoys their Luke.

I know SSC figures look better in hand.

I can even get past the debacle that was Bespin Solo (which i own btw).

But if I received this Luke from SSC it would be a bad case of 1/6 whiplash back to his home in california.

And to MF you might not want to take Les up on his offer, Because you will realize that your perfect painted stock SSC portraits are..... next to the power of this mans brush.