In another thread I made mention of purchasing two PDO pewter figures. From different sellers over ebay, one for myself and another for a friend. One was the real thing, the other a fake. I know some members here also have these figures and are probably curious. The photos can speak for themselves, but the fake one is lighter in weight and color and bendable, I could break off the wings if I tried! A pretty amusing fake, and the least thing I would expect to be a fake! 
Ah - when you mentioned this in the other topic, I assumed you meant this Orta statue (my mistake, as you did say āpewterā). I donāt remember hearing about this one before, and IMO it looks significantly nicer.
Iād like to add this statue to the big list of PD merchandise on the site when I update it, so Iāve a couple of questions:
Do you have any idea what company made these things and how they were originally released? (The other statue had to be ordered from a promotional website, IIRC).
Would you be OK with me using these photos for the site? Theyāre very good.
I admit I like the pewter figure better as well!
Sadly I cannot answer this question. If I remember right, these were given to the developers/certain people and a certain number were made. I am sure someone here will know and answer this question, perhaps Mr. Solowing dragon, Abadd or even KFC (lol).
Feel free. 
Havenāt seen this one before sorry, although it is nice.
Youāve put me in the mood for KFC now. Yum.
ha- looking at those, I realize I have a āfakeā one. The other one wing detail is more crisp than mine.
Are you sure it is actually āfakeā- it might be possible Sega did a run in one territory or something with a cheaper metal.
If they did went through another company for a second run, then it was a poor job of it. I should not be able to bend the wings like I have done, there are still extra metal bits clinging onto it. You can see a little bit of the extra bits of the metal on the inner tip of the wing, usually that should be clipped and smoothed by most professional standards.
I will be willing to take additional photographs if anyone wants me, perhaps in better light as well!
So, either there is a second run, or there is some fakes running about. I am interested in any answers.
Am I right in assuming that neither of them came with distinctive packaging (like a box with anything printed on it)?
Hmm, I remember seeing this in the offical japanese website but it was a grayish type.
You are correct.
To be honest, N, that sounds like a Games Workshop model coming out of a box. You need to file and trim those down before you can paint them properly.
True, but when you purchase Pewter figures NOT ment to be painted on, there is a difference in quality. Most professionally created figures will be cleaned and polished from such extra bits.
Anyways, you will know what I am talking about when you see it yourself.
