Thanks to everyone for being cool about the new statue and my pics
it made the run around I did before work today worth it and it's good to see the nastiness of the other thread has gone!
Just to cover a couple of ?'s from the thread before I cover off the statue...
It cost $160 US to post to OZ.
I had to pay $289 in customs duty for it...It might have been $269 but I had a bad hang over when Fedex rang me at 8.30 Tuesday morning and couldn't understand him
I just rattled off my cc number off the top of my head and went back to sleep.
So basically it cost me $2900 Ozzie dollars.
But I did get $100 reward points and a gift voucher came with it but I don't know what it is worth yet....
Neither my shippers or the statue are numbered.
Here it is in front of some of my Marvel PF's
Ok so the statue arrived in near perfect condition. The only thing that is wrong with it is that the paint on the toe points on both feet seems to be worn off I think from rubbing on the styrofoam. Other than this it's sweet. There are scratches near where the toes touch the base but these are so close to the base it doesn't really matter.
As for the paint job, for the most part the armor paint in the main focus areas is excellent. The greasing effect however is fairly sloppy. Personally I like the grease look, it breaks up the statue a bit more than if it was just all one colour. There are a few areas like this one where the effect is rough.
The arm pit areas are made up of pistons, cables and circuits. These are not painted very well with some pistons half painted and general slop between the silver and red sections. Pretty ordinary at this price point. Sorry I can't get a good picture of this.
My statue also has a downright craptacular left ankle on the underside of the armor. It is just not painted red at all and grease painted over poorly.
The inside arch sections of the feet also have this. It is in a difficult to see spot on the statue but again at this price point sections like this could at least be touched up red by hand and then greased over to fix it up.
Fail.
The neck and should armor area is also rough. It seems to have a stickiness to the v section where the neck joins the armor like excess glue or something is present. It has dust stuck in it and I'm going to try and buff it out.
There is a moulding flaw on the back of the right leg which should have been filled and patched up before and/or during painting. Again at this price point poor. Maybe all of them have this I don't know.
Look, I admit I have picked the ____ out of this statue. It does have some problems.
But I really do think it is great overall. If you like the pose, have the money and the inclination I think you will be happy. But I have learned with collecting not to expect perfection.
I am rarely satisfied with the paint on any sideshow statue. I've seen fishing lures with better paint jobs than PF's. I have an Iron Man bust and have no flaws with it, no more so than every other PF I have of Sideshows. I think I have enough Sideshow product to know that as a factory produced collectible the Iron Man 1:2 is a pretty damn fine piece of kit. After I touch a couple of things up I will be happy with it no end. Since we are all dropping 2k and over for this I can see how some will see this pieces flaws as unacceptable. I can live with them. This thing kicks ass.
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