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skywalkersaga


asgardianboy wrote:
skywalkersaga wrote:
asgardianboy wrote:

I have sent emails to Phicen asking for other builts and skin colours. To no avail.
You can't always cover the wrists/ankles.... :-(
Your tip to "dull up" the head is noted. Light reflection indeed is a very important factor. Thanks! ;-)
I understand you see the business case for your Phicens.
If you ever get the AT025, let us know!
Heads matching Phicen bodies should be more. If restricted to a few heads, the joy of kitbashing with these bodies gets hit. Phicen should fill the colour gap!
Thanks,
m.

Sorry they have not responded to your emails about the skintones and body shapes, that's unfortunate. Hopefully they will 'get the memo' all the same and eventually branch out more. The lack of skintone variety is especially eggregious at this stage -- they really should be aiming for more diversity on that score. And I know people will say that this is because 'there aren't any matching headsculpts out there for PoC skintones', but that's not really an excuse. I say that because tbleague does occasionally change their recipe for their standard skintone colours, as we have recently noted in a thread here, and I have likewise noticed that certain headsculpt companies will then change their paintjobs on the heads to 'match' better. I noticed this with the Natalie Portman PT001 headsculpt that started out with the previous 'greyish' tbleague suntan skintone, and then the later ones had different paintjob that matched the newer, more reddish suntan tone. My point being, that if they can change the colour so subtly, then surely if tbleague came out with more skin colours, the headsculpt companies would immediately start putting out heads to match them. Just my feeling anyway. So there isn't really a good reason not to do this, from what I can tell...

And I hope I didn't come across as dismissive about headsculpt-matching issue in general, but just wanted to give the perspective of someone who uses them more for certain types of custom figures where perhaps that side of things is not such a big focus. Of course, everyone's needs and requirements in this hobby vary, and for the sake of those who wish for complete perfection with the skintone matches, I do hope that tbleague/phicen will eventually provide more sculpts. Though again, sometimes whether heads 'match' or not truly is in the eye of the beholder, so even if a company thinks they have made a 'match', it might not look so to us picky customizers and collectors! :'D

TBLeague doesn't even have to go multicolour. They only need to provide neutral tone bodies, different colour dye kits, and a colour guide showing how to achieve different usual skin colours (I think it is a thread on OSW on which they are successfully dyeing Phicen bodies with Rit Dye, and Phicen really should read that one).

m.

The thread you are thinking of is here on this forum: Wink

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t2628-dyeing-phicen-figures-with-rit-dye-nsfw


And yes, I recall you mentioning that idea. It would be fun to have that option, but I don't see tbleague ever providing that, realistically. I think it is much more in the realms of possibility for them to produce base bodies in a wider variety/range of 'standard' skintones.... even if they are dragging their feet about getting around to doing so. Smile

GubernatorFan


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asgardianboy wrote:I have sent emails to Phicen asking for other builts and skin colours. To no avail.
You can't always cover the wrists/ankles.... :-(
Your tip to "dull up" the head is noted. Light reflection indeed is a very important factor. Thanks! ;-)
I understand you see the business case for your Phicens.
If you ever get the AT025, let us know!
Heads matching Phicen bodies should be more. If restricted to a few heads, the joy of kitbashing with these bodies gets hit. Phicen should fill the colour gap!

See my response to your comments, and the linked thread, in post 35 above.

I agree that you can't/wouldn't want to always cover the wrists and ankles, and that there might be something that could be done about the design that might improve this -- at least slightly. Similarly, there are going to be times when you want those joints to be open and allow attaching/detaching hand- and foot/footwear-sculpts. You mentioned bendable toes. In seamless bodies these have not allowed the figures to stand unassisted, and even in regular visible-jointed bodies they are a point of weakness. ACI provided a separate bent-toe foot-sculpt for at least some of its base bodies, and of course many companies (TBLeague included) have provided a different type of bent sculpt for female feet intended to wear high heels. At any rate, that is more promising when it comes to poseability and stability, and requires detachable feet. Again, as I said in my earlier response, I have nothing against a more truly seamless alternative, although I think it would be of rather limited use.

I don't think that was the AT025 -- unless I've already misplaced the seamless arms from its box.
Edit: yep, AT025 doesn't come with alternative seamless arms...
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t36-new-product-worldbox-1-6-durable-body-action-body-at025?highlight=at025

And I agree that TBLeague should make more skin tones available, which would be to reverse its own policy (it used to have more, at least for the female bodies). But I suppose it will ultimately come down to a business decision of whether this would sell well enough to offset the cost of separate/additional machinery, dies, quality control, etc, etc. I also suppose it might take a more massive e-mail campaign (perhaps an outright petition with many subscribers essentially vouching to buy whatever numbers of (for example) paler longer-legged (no ankle extenders) painted-nippled and body-haired M33s (or whatever) for TBLeague to make a move in whatever direction. But I also suspect that right now people in China (and not just China) have bigger worries on their minds...

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silverfox7119


Hello friend,

Do you have decolorize issues of this figure? when i got it in first day, i unbox it just get a few touch and then i noticed it color are started fading! even it getting worse after that... this is how ridiculous for me! contact supplier still not reply... i felt like being cheated!


https://servimg.com/view/20188989/7

https://servimg.com/view/20188989/6

GubernatorFan

GubernatorFan
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silverfox7119 wrote:Hello friend, Do you have decolorize issues of this figure? when i got it in first day, i unbox it just get a few touch and then i noticed it color are started fading! even it getting worse after that... this is how ridiculous for me! contact supplier still not reply... i felt like being cheated!

https://servimg.com/view/20188989/7

https://servimg.com/view/20188989/6

Hi. Admittedly I've handled the figure with some basic caution, but I've not seen any damage to the body surface. This is more than fading, looks like peeling or rubbing off to me. Sorry to see it, now we know to watch out for that too. Good luck with the supplier.


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Rogerbee

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