If a lot (or all of them) have the issue no matter how bad it is sideshow won't do ---- until literally everyone complains (like their god awful rogue PF from years ago). And even then they will only do it if it's something they can fix relatively easily (like a head not the whole thing). Their predator 2 maquette heads had massive gaps in them, their masked predator LSB had absolutely god awful painting. The pock mark in the center of the mask on the production was a circle with some squiggly lines come out of it, it was a joke. And SS did not want to take mine back without making me pay for return shipping either.
And that's when I stopped purchasing stuff from SS. There's no point anyways nowadays you can get everything they make cheaper down the line. The last thing of theirs I actually wanted was the Vader Mythos and I picked it up for $525 shipped which is over $100 less before even adding in shipping.
Predator LSB proto vs production a joke, and they bring out the "they're hand painted and all look different" though all the productions looked like the same ----, and it doesn't matter one looks like ass one looks good and that's the prototype.