mortenharket
Sr Member
Hi all, in spirit with the recent trend of reviews I have my own. I have been trying to source an upper body skin for a long time now, the problem has been sourcing one in the UK with a short lead time, I didnt want to get one from the US as I would probs get stung for customs charges so needed a cost effective solution.
So I seen an AVP style skin on ebay by a chap called jaqthelad, done some enquiring around the boards and this did appear to be his own work so I was happy in that sense as I dont believe in recasts where possible. So I placed an order about 2 weeks ago and it arrived yesterday no problems at all. First comment is that Steve is a very nice bloke to deal with and responds very quickly to your questions and updated me when i needed.
Im going to be critical here as a review should be, but this is in no way an attack on Steve because before I get to the end I will say I am very happy with it, just want to provide some "nit picky" comments. I apologise for the poor pictures as they were taken with my mobile phone.
The sculpt come in 3 parts, torso and 2 arms and I assume is based on Scar who is not my favourite predator but beggars cant be choosers and this will be painted up P1 style anyway so a minor minor gripe and I knew this anyway. The torso is MASSIVE and unless you are about 20st needs to be resized, I presumed this was the case and Steve did tell me its a large sculpt. The front of the sculpt is quite detailed with good definition on all the major muscle groups you expect, the back of the sculpt isnt as detailed as I would like (I would of liked really "ripped" lats and delts) but there is some definition that will come out in painting. But then again this area is covered by the backpack anway so another small gripe really. There is some texturing on the skin, nothing amazing but sufficient I should say
The arms are again MASSIVE which can be expected from a 7ft tall creature, but the detail is very good, with scales on the shoulders and triceps plus good muscle definition.
The overall quality in my opinion appears good, the latex is thick througout with only a few air tiny bubbles that cant be avoided, although there is one small thinner patch on the back which has been reinforced by gauze. I tried to get a picture but it looks rubbish so have not included it. But its not so thin as to ruin the cast, its just a tad thinner that everywhere else if you catch my drift. I assume that its difficult to entirely eliminate the risk of thin parts in a cast?
So overall, yes I am very happy with this as it is what I expected and was told I was getting. It does need some modding. Either that or I need to put a few stone of lean muscle on (BEEFCAAAAAKKKEEE).
Hope this is of interest to some of you guys and helps us UK preds in our hunt for skins
I will give it an 8.5/10 based on the fact I need to spend a lot of time modding it to suit and the one thin patch, but again I am very happy with it, to me it seems like a good quality item and the service was quick and excellent.
So I seen an AVP style skin on ebay by a chap called jaqthelad, done some enquiring around the boards and this did appear to be his own work so I was happy in that sense as I dont believe in recasts where possible. So I placed an order about 2 weeks ago and it arrived yesterday no problems at all. First comment is that Steve is a very nice bloke to deal with and responds very quickly to your questions and updated me when i needed.
Im going to be critical here as a review should be, but this is in no way an attack on Steve because before I get to the end I will say I am very happy with it, just want to provide some "nit picky" comments. I apologise for the poor pictures as they were taken with my mobile phone.
The sculpt come in 3 parts, torso and 2 arms and I assume is based on Scar who is not my favourite predator but beggars cant be choosers and this will be painted up P1 style anyway so a minor minor gripe and I knew this anyway. The torso is MASSIVE and unless you are about 20st needs to be resized, I presumed this was the case and Steve did tell me its a large sculpt. The front of the sculpt is quite detailed with good definition on all the major muscle groups you expect, the back of the sculpt isnt as detailed as I would like (I would of liked really "ripped" lats and delts) but there is some definition that will come out in painting. But then again this area is covered by the backpack anway so another small gripe really. There is some texturing on the skin, nothing amazing but sufficient I should say
The arms are again MASSIVE which can be expected from a 7ft tall creature, but the detail is very good, with scales on the shoulders and triceps plus good muscle definition.The overall quality in my opinion appears good, the latex is thick througout with only a few air tiny bubbles that cant be avoided, although there is one small thinner patch on the back which has been reinforced by gauze. I tried to get a picture but it looks rubbish so have not included it. But its not so thin as to ruin the cast, its just a tad thinner that everywhere else if you catch my drift. I assume that its difficult to entirely eliminate the risk of thin parts in a cast?
So overall, yes I am very happy with this as it is what I expected and was told I was getting. It does need some modding. Either that or I need to put a few stone of lean muscle on (BEEFCAAAAAKKKEEE).
Hope this is of interest to some of you guys and helps us UK preds in our hunt for skins
I will give it an 8.5/10 based on the fact I need to spend a lot of time modding it to suit and the one thin patch, but again I am very happy with it, to me it seems like a good quality item and the service was quick and excellent.
