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I just received the Venus of Botticelli and meh. It's a cool thing to have and fool around with, but it's lackluster in so many ways, especially for the price.
These issues were known since the first reviews and some from the promo images, but to recap:
The face is crooked, questionably translated to 3D from an artistic 2D painting, kinda like those instances where an anime girl's face is made crooked in 3D to look right from the required angle in a video game or anime, except now you are stuck with that in a figure you'll see from many angles.
The neck is fairly long by design just like the source (and the tits are very small and low), which is ok, but whenever she looks just slightly upwards the ball joint for the head has to move up out of the neck for clearance and it gets just a bit longer into ayyy territory.
The shoulder-pit-breast connection is also weird looking. You have to cut them some slack because it inspired by the anatomy of the painting, but they could have done better.
There's the McFarlane torso bend.
The poseability of the hips and the torso is pretty bad (which also makes overcoming the torso bend difficult).
They couldn't be half assed to think of a place to insert the stand on the back of the shell instead of putting the raised sculpted port right there in the middle. Like, how can you make a ~14000 yen figure of a classic artwork and not stop to think this? It's not even a matter of budget or a catch-22 in some tricky design choice but a matter of giving a shit.
On the other hand, personally I have no problem with the raw quality of the paint, though it's arguably worse than the promo shots and I recall seing complaints. It works for me.
This is a line one wants to buy because it's so unique, but this lack of care is annoying. And then comes the Mona Lisa which cannot sit on a chair or look straight ahead; I'm skipping that one with no remorse.
