Just had a huge box arrive at my door containing my very first Prime 1 item. Since P1 started making more items I'm interested in, I've started to buy into the hype around the company. And I'm happy to report that said hype is very well deserved! I'v had many collectibles from many different companies, I think this might be the best one I've had yet in terms of quality with only ECC coming close.
So onto the bust. In short, it's beautiful! Anybody who is a fan of ID4 needs to just buy this thing before it's gone. You won't regret it. It is definitely a piece that is difficult to photograph and indeed my pictures will not do it justice. In person it looks alive, you almost expect the hand to move. The translucent resin offers so much to the over all look and feel. The paint on it is of a higher quality than any collectible I've ever owned. It has so much going on and changes depending on the light levels. Even the base which you expect to be a simple grey has a plethora of blues and burnt metal colours in it.
There are only two critiques I can even think of. First, the eyes should definitely have been painted in chrome. They aren't bad in person tbh, they do a job. But considering the effort that clearly went into this bust, the chrome eyes would have been the cherry on top. I'll give mine some soon. And second is those seems which were my biggest worry going in. They are definitely there, and definitely noticeable, but even I as somebody who hates to see them on anything can live with these. I'd rather they weren't there for sure, but they do not ruin the bust.
In short, I intended to box this back up until my games room has been decorated (eventually) But there's no way I'm hiding this away, I've moved some other pieces aside so that this can sit on my PC desk right next to me. Just buy it. We'll likely never see this character made to this standard, for this price ever again. It's a work of art, well done Prime 1.
Definitely NO PEACE.....
