Masterpiece Lambor/Sudeswipe Update - Face Shot

LamboTwinLove · 08-05-2012, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolfguard

Basically, I was hoping for/would prefer something more like this:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8913/reside.jpg

I think he just looks better with his lips and cheeks deflated, but I'm weird like that...

Really? I think they both look nice.

SMOG · 08-05-2012, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolfguard

You can call it whatever you want. The key aspect here is "In My Opinion" it's not a small detail. The face is very important TO ME, and as it stands, I will not spend MY MONEY on something I'm not 100% sold on.

Exactly. Your opinion was never in question. I was just being slightly critical of your opinion, and the weight that such a small detail seems to carry.

As for empty bombast, by that I simply meant that for all these declarations, I'll bet you will end up owning this anyway. A Countach TF this nice is not to be denied.

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*I prefer Classics Sideswipe, I don't give a shit about light piping (not holding my TFs in the sunlight for just that perfect angle to pretend they're glowing,)

I actually hate light-piping, but at least decent light-piping allows some light to filter through normally. Instead, Classic Sideswipe just has these twin black holes in his face, which looks weird. I painted mine. Looks loads better.

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I don't generally check out the back of his legs.

I actually find the legs on that figure pretty awkward-looking in general, otherwise the hollowness wouldn't bug me so much.

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Originally Posted by Wolfguard

Basically, I was hoping for/would prefer something more like this:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8913/reside.jpg

I think he just looks better with his lips and cheeks deflated, but I'm weird like that...

No, I agree. I think that looks way better. But it's not even the size of the lips (or their very presence) that bugs me, but just how soft and organic they look. I prefer a G1 TF's face to look a little more chiselled and geometric. I'm not crazy about the face, but I wouldn't consider it a deal-breaker.

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Originally Posted by originaljk

I just realized looking at that head sculpt that he will have no head articulation except looking side to side and up. no downward movement. That's a real bummer.

Ouch. I hope that doesn't turn out to be the case.

zmog

originaljk · 08-05-2012, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by OptimushedPrune

It could also be on a rotating platform like MP-10 that would give you some up and down movement.

I'm not familiar with mp-10 enough to know what ypu r referring to, but unless they raise his head off the top of his torso he can't look down.

Wolfguard · 08-06-2012, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by SMOG

Exactly. Your opinion was never in question. I was just being slightly critical of your opinion, and the weight that such a small detail seems to carry.

Hence the nature of my reply + re-emphasis that it's not a "small detail" TO ME.

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As for empty bombast, by that I simply meant that for all these declarations, I'll bet you will end up owning this anyway. A Countach TF this nice is not to be denied.

Really? I'll take that bet then. FYI - the F-15 is my favorite jet + Thundercracker is my favorite seeker, but the weirdness of the head/face details have thus far kept me from buying MP Thundercracker. So now that you have fair warning, as well as a previous example of an MP figure I would have wanted and didn't purchase, exactly how much money are you willing to lose?

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No, I agree. I think that looks way better. But it's not even the size of the lips (or their very presence) that bugs me, but just how soft and organic they look. I prefer a G1 TF's face to look a little more chiselled and geometric.

Thank you (and also to all who commented on my face revamp.) I also agree - the G1 face is superior.

[Wing_Saber-X] · 08-06-2012, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolfguard

Basically, I was hoping for/would prefer something more like this:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8913/reside.jpg

I think he just looks better with his lips and cheeks deflated, but I'm weird like that...

that's more like it! Oh Takaratomy, WHY?!