@Al!naJames:
Ok, so I wanted to write about the following issue:
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Many people say that first WCF sets were amazing and the newer dropped in quality. Sure, there were some nasty looking sets/figures along the way, but I can not agree with this. I think their overall quality stayed as good, or even got better. It's possible that I'm not the best person to judge since I don't owe all of the WCF and only separate figures here and there, but still…
Here we have first and last Namis. First one is fully painted, last one is with coloured plastic used for skin. Can you tell which one is way more shiny and looks crappy all in all? :P
Hah I was going to say something about this too. I made a small fuss earlier about how WCF Perona looked bad. Well I've got her now aaand she's actually a lot better than I thought she'd be, lol! ^^;
Yes, her face is shiny and looks a shade just a bit sickly to me, and the black line in her mouth is too thick, but seeing it in a zoomed photo is definitely different from real life (I probs should've kept that in mind as I got the much complained about Inori, who turned out fine imo), and the rest of the figure does make up for those only flaws.
Her sculpt is as great as the first lines of wcf, and the paint is not sloppy at all, most notably the cross design on her front is almost perfect, and the bearsy doll is nicely done and cute for being so small. The thing that pleases me the most I guess is that the stick for her umbrella is completely straight, I think I'd be upset if it was all bent like some other items of wcfs have been. Someone said the material seems slightly better than some previous sets so maybe that's why- hopefully there will be less bendiness overall now. I still think there are plenty of crappy looking wcfs, but I must humbly withdraw my grievances on this one. Happy to keep this time skip Perona instead of the POP which I don't really care for.