1/6 Figure Station - Peggy Carter Head Sculpt

[SilverStar17]

Obviously I'm a huge fan of Joy Snyder's sculpts, having commissioned multiple heads (including the Peggy Carter), and think her painting is technically superb, but I prefer a different skin tone technique (the white base plus pastel approach).

That said, let's not pretend Hot Toys is "realistic." Does it have nice variation in tone and stippling? Sure. But Hot Toys apparently creates skin tones to look good under professional flash photography conditions and are thus unrealistically dark under household lighting conditions for most light skin tones.

HT does have the propensity to make skin pigmentation a bit too dark on their sculpts, but at the same time, let's not pretend that these figures aren't realistic looking because often times they are, which is precisely why many of us on here purchase them in favor of other manufacturers most of the time. Darker skin aside, HT generally does make an effort to put texture to the skin with their paint apps, which does go a long way in terms of being "realistic" looking.