Just got this today. A cheap, broken Sideshow T-700 bust. NIIIICE. Is really small compared to my foam cast skull, so I'm pretending it's for a female or juvenile type terminator.
My plan was to sand down the grainy surface and then repaint it with chrome and then weather the hell out of it, but after seeing it in-hand, I'm not so sure I want to. It really looks great as-is, in my opinion.
In my daydreaming Terminator I've come up with the theory on the endoskeletons that they are printed or machined individually with the basic endoskeleton design beinig manipulated to have the skeletal shape of the person they are trying to imitate. So the Schwarzenegger endoskeleton isn't the basic form, but that basic form pushed into his proportions, so the basic form could be a fully symmetrical piece. I never really liked the concept of one endoskeleton fits all. That wouldn't explain the future war Franco Culumbo terminator who had a completely different build to and was shorter than Shwarzenegger. It would actually make sense that Skynet captured survivors, sampled their DNA to grow skin, scanned their body into the system as well as their skeleton shape, then formed the endoskeleton from that information, so they would create a perfect replica to infiltrate with. Though... since not many surviving humans were buffed like Schwarzenegger that could mean the data used was from an old source from before the war - a planned super soldier program that Skynet got access to when it was hooked into everything. (or to geek out completely: it was the info on Dutch from Predator, thus linking those two franchises together)
The Terminator, Alien, and Predator franchises always seemed to me to somehow be connected. I know Alien and Predator have already been connected, but so far it hasn't been possible to connect the Terminator franchise to those other two even though James Cameron tried to use Cyberdyne as the company for the androids in Aliens, but couldn't due to licensing issues, so he went with Hyperdyne instead.
I know, I'm geeking out. If I ever win a gazilion dollars I'll try and acquire the Terminator rights and create the future war as I think they should be. Create the story around exactly what Reese said in T1.
Well, one can dream can't they!?