megatronus wrote:jay5 wrote:Paint looks good on the SDCC
The non-rotating mixer barrel, non-extending crane arm, and the likely non-jointed excavator arm irk me, though.
itscramtastic wrote:megatronus wrote:jay5 wrote:Ah, I guess if most of it is actually color-infused plastic and not painted plastic or painted metal, the poor quality of paint application we've seen on TT products won't be as much of an issue.
What do you mean? Takara-Tomy normally has AWESOME paint apps.
I agree with you Megatronus, I haven't run in to any paint issues with TT, jay. Usually the case is that the TT paint ends up being more accurate to the original item (either animation or toy model) I thought?
The reviews of some of the car Autobots have shown pretty poor paint quality control issues. Same with Soundwave and the cassette Decepticons. For Masterpiece-level models, they seem to have inferior paint to this TG combiner Devastator.
First of all, you shouldn't conflate Masterpiece and Generations; even when both fall under Takara, they're different animals.
Second, the only MP figure I know of that saw widespread paint QC issues was Sideswipe, and that was several years ago. I haven't heard anything negative about the cassettes or Soundwave in that department, so if you could provide links or source those claims, I would appreciate it. I've had no such issues with mine.
Sure, however I don't have the time right now to take photos of my mint-just-out-of-box cassettes to show their mediocre paint and marred paint issues. They're rather disappointing even for their MSRP, let alone what I paid for them which was much more.
Here's someone who mentioned their Soundwave has poor QC paint issues. Mine is still en route, but hopefully doesn't have those issues.
Here's a video of MP-12 Sideswipe with pretty horrible paint matching between materials fresh out of the box, plus bubbled paint errors on the roof.
Don't have time to pull up more right now, but hopefully that helps.
So is Generations normally better quality than Masterpiece?