GubernatorFan wrote:So the new "wheat" is even closer to KT? From other descriptions I thought they had made it a bit lighter, if anything.
I only own one of each in this model, so I can't say with 100% certainty if it's set in stone or just specific to the initial production run, but (in hand, at least) the two I have
are now very close but still perceptively different (in that the same head would match one body better than the other, even if you can't exactly pinpoint why). We're getting into very subtle shading and hue-ing here, but it seems more the case that what Jiaou is still calling 'wheat' is now very slightly paler but slightly
more 'orangey' than before, while their 'new wheat' is darker but
less 'orangey'. But as I say it's very subtle, and of course photographing them under varying light conditions renders all of the above definitions even
more fluid.
I think Jiaou could just as easily have called 'new wheat' 'new KT' for what it's worth, but as they were marketing the tone as their answer to TBL's suntan, they've gone for 'new wheat' because of the general 'is it wheat or is it suntan... or is it just tan?' confusion that many retailers still seem to labour under when selling these bodies.
But I could just be thinking that from the rabbit hole I've fallen into trying to make sense of all this.
EDIT: Hmm, having just compared the new KT 'Euro' body side-by-side with the single older KT body I already own (something I hadn't done already, oddly), it seems that the new one is actually a little lighter than the older one...
Of course, I guess Jiaou could have just tweaked the tone as they love to do, or I could've even been sold either a mislabelled New Wheat or KT here. The trouble with Jiaou Dolls is that unless you can translate the Chinese serial on the box you receive you never know for sure. Unfortunately I don't tend to keep the boxes for base bodies.
Wah, now my head hurts.