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So a final footnote to all of this. After 6 months of waiting and asking about the refund Phil had agreed to, I decided it was just time to give up. On the 3rd Aug 2021 I sent to Phil the following: Received a reply of: To which I sent back my Paypal email address a few days later. Another...

I doubt this will come as a surprise to anyone, but 6 months later I have still yet to receive anything at all, not even a reply from Phil in the past 3-4 months. So yeah, I'm done, a long, hard, expensive lesson learnt, but nothing more I can do so no point in wasting any more time and head...

One minor problem with that, I'm in AU and he's in the UK.

So, who knows what time it is? That's right, it's update time. However, this isn't any ordinary update, because this time, it's the actual amount of time that marks the milestone. On the 15th May 2011, I made the first payment to Phil for the statue and as of now, on this 10 year anniversary I...

Given the state of the planet over the past year and the even bigger 'mess' in the USA over the past couple of weeks, chances are many of you have more pressing matters on your mind, but in case anyone is still following along and wondering how it all turned out..... well, it didn't. To answer...

Yeah, that's nice in theory, but I'm not totally sure it works out that way. You may not have paid for it, but chances are it still has a declared value on the customs form, likely around what it would have costed if you did pay for it in full. Then all the taxes/duties gets applied to that, as...

Yup, had the exact same thing happen to me, but also from 2 days ago and I also have around $55 in points but have also basically stopped collecting, its all just getting too expensive. I looked at seeing if there was anything that I would like for around the cost of the rewards points I have...

I can only assume he was referring to the July 2013 statue, ie this one: Which wasn't bad, but as you can see from the overlay, had some basic position and scale issues, mostly the axe arm and length of the left leg, along with the upper torso needing to be turned around a little more. But...

Well, for those of you who are still playing along at home, the past couple of months have been..... 'interesting'. As I type this, we are now 9 and a half years since I first paid the $236AUD deposit and on the 18th September Phil fired off a message starting with: He then basically blamed...

The latest is "will be finishing up the changes next month". So I guess that now means waiting till end of October. I wonder if it will be all sorted by Nov 15, the 9 year 6 month anniversary... time will tell.

For those wondering what the current status is, I am still waiting on the agreed required changes that were going to be done by the end of June to be completed. At this stage I have no revised ETA. Will let you all know if I get any updates.

Yes it is 1/4 scale or at least it should be. I've spoken with Phil and he's agreed to a number of fixes. - The weapons will be re-sculpted and re-painted, the sword is too short and the axe isn't exactly right and I find the paint apps, especially on the axe just doesn't say razor sharp. I...

Here is what I assume will be the final statue. For anyone that needs a reminder, this is the reference image that we were going for. Let me know what you all think, honest feedback is welcome.

For anyone who has been following along I'm sure this won't come as any surprise, but I've yet to hear any word from Phil over the past month, even tho the statue is meant be be completed within 2 weeks time. So I've sent him a reminder, along with pointing out the fact that it is now...

Seems word has finally reached Phil and I've got the following reply: Of course there has been a ton of "next months" in the past, guess I wait and see what happens by the end of May.