thing is, we are all anally retentive, pedantic, insulting in our own way, and we all think we're intellectually superior and more qualified to critique sculpts. ALL OF US. at the same time we also deride posts that do the same thing. i do it, you do it, we ALL do it. that also makes us hypocrites. but that's the nature of the board. it's just the way it is.
if you like rainman's sculpt, just ignore the criticisms. you don't have to go to bat for him everyone time someone makes those comments. for me personally, i see much MUCH more tyler and pitt in daniel's head. but i don't get frustrated every time someone says both heads are equal in quality (that to me feels like an insult to daniel's head), or that daniel's is imperfect.
regarding the praise of flawed sculpts, i can tell you why rainman is a target. the custom section used to be a place for the freaks by the freaks. everyone was just sharing work and occassionally selling that talent, but primarily everyone was a member of the boards. praise was to encourage one of our own. let's not kid ourselves, rainman is a business man first and foremost. he sells EXPENSIVE items, through a "representative", and doesn't participate on the forums. that makes his stuff as open to criticism as say an HT product IMHO. he's not a part of SSF. i am very VERY grateful to him for the GBU figs, but his status here makes him open to that criticism. i'm sure he doesn't even read or know or care what we say about his stuff. especially when it's selling out at $650 or $700 a pop.
rainman made a great figure but i've been waiting for a tyler durden like so many others for years. and when i first saw it, i thought there was no way i was going to buy it. i went with seb instead (because we share a philosophy and passion for the subject matter, which i'm not sure rainman does - how can we know?) and daniel's incredible HS.
it's all opinions dude. and even repetitive "insulting" ones can be ignored. but like i say, we're all guilty of the same crimes.
