This was a reply to Fitzy but it is also worthy of a post on its own as I am sure many of you will be able to find and post pics of such figures:
Subject: Vintage Figures Missing Paint Applications MOC or Loose!
Have you ever noticed a paint mistake or non application on a figure?
Factory errors, while uncommon are something we do see in the vintage line, unpainted heads,hands, legs you name it, wrong figures on wrong cards.
Incorrect figures are very prominent on the Trilogo cards as these were essentially the last produced cards distributed all over Europe to meet customer demand but if you look hard enough you can find miscards and factory paint errors on even the earliest of carded figures. (They are however much rarer, probably because when the toys were initially produced there was a greater amount of care taken in the overall look)
MOCS
As far as Trilogos go, it is commonly understood that when the factories ran out of a certain figure they would substitute the closest figure to it and put that in the card just to get another MOC onto the shelves, that's easily the explanation for Farmboy luke on a X-wing card (hey it's luke! what's the problem?) and a droid figure like the death star droid or c3po on 2-1B card (again-it's a droid! Who cares!)
Of course there are many wierd and wonderful things that make absolutely no sense, I have seen bubbles upside down, bubbles on the opposite side of the card, and figure/cardback combinations that just don't make sense (Stormtrooper on a Warok card/ Warok on a Weequay card)
When I started collecting, I bought up as many as I found, just as novelty items really and it was a lot of fun!
Here are a couple of examples I dug up of items I have owned, I don't have a lot of photos of my old stuff but this will show you what I mean!
Back to loose figures
I'm sure if anyone looks hard enough at a bunch of their loose figures they can find either a bad paint job or a missing paint job just look at this Lumat with no face paint :
So interesting YES! Rare not really unfortunately, just victimS of a mass produced line of figures and from factory workers who were likely overworked and underpaid!
Subject: Vintage Figures Missing Paint Applications MOC or Loose!
Have you ever noticed a paint mistake or non application on a figure?
Factory errors, while uncommon are something we do see in the vintage line, unpainted heads,hands, legs you name it, wrong figures on wrong cards.
Incorrect figures are very prominent on the Trilogo cards as these were essentially the last produced cards distributed all over Europe to meet customer demand but if you look hard enough you can find miscards and factory paint errors on even the earliest of carded figures. (They are however much rarer, probably because when the toys were initially produced there was a greater amount of care taken in the overall look)
MOCS
As far as Trilogos go, it is commonly understood that when the factories ran out of a certain figure they would substitute the closest figure to it and put that in the card just to get another MOC onto the shelves, that's easily the explanation for Farmboy luke on a X-wing card (hey it's luke! what's the problem?) and a droid figure like the death star droid or c3po on 2-1B card (again-it's a droid! Who cares!)
Of course there are many wierd and wonderful things that make absolutely no sense, I have seen bubbles upside down, bubbles on the opposite side of the card, and figure/cardback combinations that just don't make sense (Stormtrooper on a Warok card/ Warok on a Weequay card)
When I started collecting, I bought up as many as I found, just as novelty items really and it was a lot of fun!
Here are a couple of examples I dug up of items I have owned, I don't have a lot of photos of my old stuff but this will show you what I mean!
Back to loose figures
I'm sure if anyone looks hard enough at a bunch of their loose figures they can find either a bad paint job or a missing paint job just look at this Lumat with no face paint :
So interesting YES! Rare not really unfortunately, just victimS of a mass produced line of figures and from factory workers who were likely overworked and underpaid!
