>>10445973>>10445556I don't think the paint differences is as bad as the tooling differences. obviously all the intricate hand shading done by hand in the protos will never make it to the final figure.
My biggest issue with most the releases has been the loss of clarity in sculpted detail. There are lots of fine details being lost during tooling and this is multiple figures in a row where it's happened and Loose Collector hasn't been on the ball about getting it solved I guess. Vamp's hair looks so much worse, more muddy, than the sculpted hair of the proto. Red Sonja's head got pinched during tooling and her hair changed shape and lost clarity as well compared to the proto.
Not being able to replicate hand painted proto paint job is one thing, but not taking control and having the factory fix the tooling is an entire new level of incompetence I can't excuse. ESPECIALLY when some of the articulation on these figures is stuck in the early 2000s. WTF are these shitty single hinge elbows on most of these??
