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Originally Posted by VS1976
What was not even close to the prototype are the following:
Voltron PF. In fact ssc had to change the webpage after the horrendous paint job they did on this piece when people complaint about it. The over spray eyes was bad. The silver was flat and had zero shading like what the proto showed.
Rogue PF the horrendous paint job on the face was the worst. Her eye shadows was so poorly painted that Ssc had to resent another batch for those who complaint. Even the 2nd batch didn't fair any better.
Iron Patriot Maquette by far the worst paint job Amongst all the statues out there. Black straight lines were Wobbly painted. The navy metallic color had botches all over. A huge disappointment.
Pyslocke PF poor primer paint job had ssc recall or replace a bulk of there statues which had paint flaking all of the place.
Spider Woman PF A lot of them had sloppy paint job with which was pretty bad.
Ms Marvel PF the back of her hair was poorly glued or assembled resulted in a gap. I had ssc replace mine 4 times.
Not so bad but there were flaws.
And the ones you mentioned alread.
1) red Sonja pf (1st one) skin tone didn't even look like proto.
2) Lara Croft PF (2nd one) wonky eye?
However ssc had some pretty flawless statues also.
1) Lara Croft Comiquette. The paint app was astounding. Imo, the best ever by ssc.
2) Lobo PF. The best DC statue by ssc.
3) Captain Marvel PF. The best Marvwl statue out there
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I have the Privalage of seeing a lot of statues from ss in person at the 3 midtown comics in NYC during my lunch breaks year round. I don't know what was close to prototype and what wasn't for the ones I'm about to list I just know for the price point their paint job is s$it or face paint job is sh$it. Doesn't meet my standards for their asking price.
Red hulk premium format (personally own) I need to just throw that s$it out. If you have grey congrats if you have green or red throw it out. Base just looks like everything is melted such bad paint job. Skin tones were not done well.
Joker arkham asylum pf head (terrible paint choice) great tailoring
Batman pf and just about every batman (face is dark as sh$t sorry but the dark knight effect bulls$it is not working)
Green lantern pf both of them ( Indian color complexion) amazing statue though
Red Sonja part 1 (personally own Fu$k where do I start never mind this pic will take care of that. Don't worry about right that is a custom paintjob worry about what's on the left.
Red Sonja part 2 (massive details lost in paint it's a disgrace to the artist who sculpted this masterpiece) sup par is not good enough for that price point.
Darkseid pf (fake looking lava like a Mattel toy sloppy paint job when you look up close on skin)
Poison ivy pf (I want to meet the fu$Ker who approved factory samples) someone on YouTube did a video of this it shows difference way better then this pic. Production we got looks like a man.
Most of the court of the dead ( this one hurts the most as no line in my opinion from any company except xm transformers is more detailed then this gorgous line but paint is just sh$t sh$it.
Wins
CAPTAIN MARVEL the best statue I've seen from ss in years period.
If you own these please don't take it as an attack 90% of my collection is ss but I collect old school ss if price is reasonable for me they have lost their way and I think they are being outdone in many aspects by a lot of other companies.
I still believe they have the best sculptors and prototypes hands down in the industry however production is just not to my standards when asking me to pay that much. I just feel sorry for the artist to be honest their prototypes are insane but ss just doesn't capture their work any more for me. It's truly sad. I have no faith in hell this 3rd Sonja will be close to proto.
