Blood for the Baron!

Working through the my pile of figures, something struck me - there are 2 painting techniques used on the SAS figures, and that these may be variant specific - so I explored further.

1) The strong yellow paint is applied to the black plastic directly. This is the more vibrant and hard-wearing of ...

Here's a photo of the hand detail.
Type 1 is right in photo, Type 2 is left - just to confuse you further!

Any thoughts or comments?

Re-checking my figures, and I came across this hand variant in the SAS Pilot figure.

It is found in the left hand, with one being more angular or round (Type 1, left in photo), and the other is flatter (Type 2, right in photo).

I have only seen this on the Yellow Helmet version, though I think we ...

In fact, it even looks very like the Royal Marines badge - palitoy did a really good job on this.

Amazing T-Shot
I don't think anyone would fake that, especially to go to the trouble of doing it, mis-aligning it in a palitoy way, and then sell it on ebay without advertising the fact.
It is indeed real deal! So, it's not just a blob of paint, but a proper cap badge... fantastic.
I will adjust ...

Congrats Meertoh, great news.
Love the name BTW!

Help me, I'm turning into Double Tap!

Jeez dude, you honestly have a real eye for photographs - still or real life.
These are excellent, as Chop says, as usual.
Looks like you had a blast!

I'm going to give this one a bump, as I'd like to square this one away.

Clearly there is a difference, but what are your thoughts about this?
Does the different factories idea make sense?
How many factories do we know about?

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LOL!