Finally got my 8th doctor yesterday. Never thought it would take so long to get him by not order him on bcs website, but anyways. I'm really glad to have him now, even if i have so issues with him.
First of all i don't like the body they used. It's floppy on the legs (even more than my war doctor ), but the ankle are floppy as well which make it quite hard to pose sometimes. The articulations on the arms are very good, which seems good but the coat reduce the articulations so much that makes the arms also hard to pose. I still don't understand how they decide which figure get to have a full neck or not. 9th doctor : neck fully exposed but no full neck and ugly joint. War doctor : neck hided behind scarf and coat, but have a full neck. And same here. You almost can't see the neck but they still gave him a full one. Which reduce head articulations and every time you move the cravat the head moves with it.
I think the headsculpt is gorgeous. The hair a well done (would have been perfect with different colors in it, but i drybrush different shade of brown to fix that). The paint is very good. The likeness is good but still a little bit of for me. Watched the movie again this morning, and to be honest they still did a great job it would have been hard to get the perfect likeness in this case. Just one things that was really horrible : the stubble. It was honnestly way worse than any pictures i've seen online. It was completly black, like they painted this all area black. I had to brush very hard with alcohol to make it acceptable.
The clothes are just amazing, very good quality, nothing to say here it's just good. Maybe the coat could have been a bit more dark but thats it.
The accesories are good aswell, very fun to play with, very happy with them.
The hand are well painted, and i like the fact that some hand are design to hold perfectly specific accessories, but it reduce the number of hand if you want him to use other accesories that you may want to give him.
I like the new box, not as much as the previous ones, but still. I didn't like the fact that when you used the backdrop, you could see inside the box, it doesn't look good that way. So i really like the "shoe box" design. But i hate the backdrop. Not because of the design used, but because it so flimsy. It doesn't stay in place it's very fragile, i'm sure one day it will start tearing unlike the others.
But still have a few nitpick : Why make the cravat button silver ? In all pictures i could find it was more brass/gold. So i had to repaint it. The watch not being attached to the waistcoast is very weird. In the promotional picture it was. And they did it for the war doctor so why not do it here ? So you have to glue it or put a magnet. The hands were a little bit glossy not horrible but still brushed them with alcohol. The coat make him look way to buff in my opinion, i completly remove the padding inside to make it look good, and even then i still think its not perfect.
Overall i'm still very happy with it, it's a very good figure, even with the issues i have with him. I'am so excited to finally have him and the fact that he is one of my favourite doctor, i can look passed some of it's problems.
Two more stitches help hold the cravat and small folds/creases in place.
...Mark Simpson did the paint work on 10...
so I can sympathise with you there! Your pictures are great though - really like the lighting on them too. 
