Captain America Shield

[Jason_E]

I am sure a bunch of people jumped at the opportunity to pick up the latest captain america shield produced by museum replicas.

Hopefully mine was the only one to arrive with dents, paint chips, and enough paint running to think it was competing at a track meet.

I suppose there lies the difference between a comic book indestructable shield, and the sheet metal vs I purchased.

Long story short I decided to roll with the abuse, and replicate the shield from the cut scenes in Ultimate Alliance. I also redid the straps in brown leather, as well as machined aluminum strap mounts.

Longer story shorter...based on all the reviews on this forum, and this being the second product of very poor quality that I have received from this company, I caution anyone from jumping on board their next product line.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Ramiel]

Well, with your mods looks great... Not to mention that I love "lived" props like this:cool

 

[Funky]

It only makes sense. Sure, the shield is indestructable, but not the paintjob.

 

[Son of Skywalker]

If it isn't worn it isn't loved. Nice job btw.

Is the weight good and also how heavy is it?

 

[Kadajiroth]

Great job on the weathering and mods. Sorry to hear you received it in the state you did. I've never purchased from them, but I don't think I ever will be after some of the stories I've heard.

 

[GeorgeC]

Yeah,

What happened to Jason is not right, but I do think he made the best of the situation and actually made a pretty decent "beat-up" paint job shield!


FYI,

I don't think I'd buy a licensed shield anyway. There are guys here that make shields at least as good, if not better, than the licensed Marvel crap.

Regardless of who a company gives a license to do reproductions of characters and equipment to, it's up to the copyright holder to keep an eye on the quality of the end-product! It doesn't make Marvel or DC look good when licensees continue to churn out poor-quality product.

The one company that continues to impress me with the quality of their licensed statues and busts is Bowen. Everybody else pretty much goes through stretches where they have really crappy production runs with bad paint jobs and cracked/poorly fired ceramic and resin statues.

I also like the fact that Bowen does busts of the funkier and often-forgotten secondary and tertiary characters of the Marvel Universe. Not everything has to be just Spider-Man or X-Men variants. I wish DC would get the hint and realize they have a far bigger character universe than just Batman, too...

DC Direct used to be better than they are now but I've heard too many horror stories from comic shops and online sites about statues arriving in terrible condition from that division of DC Comics.