Originally posted by Benign Robot@Nov 6 2005, 08:22 AM
Stay far away (from anything made by Icons, for that matter), unless you can get it for less than a CC kit.
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Having worked at Icons I can say that you are very wrong.
Yes some of the prop replicas did have problems, but most did not.
When I was working there the X-wing Fighters were painted with an airbrush,
NOT Spraypaint cans.
The X-wings had all kinds of problems because of a bad batch of resin sold to us by a supplier (Who we stopped buying from), so did some of the Pulse Rifles from Aliens.
Towards the end of Icons business they hired a lot of unskilled and unexperienced workers who are the ones who probably left fingerprints on some paintjobs, when I quit after not being paid what I was owed, I was given a Studio-Scale Tie Fighter which was complete and it's perfect. There are no fingerprints in the paint, and none of the piece sags or droops.
I was also owed a Viper and never got one, and I worked on it,
I even sculpted the Pilot and scratch-built the cockpit.