- Joined
- May 7, 2013
- Messages
- 10,163
- Reaction score
- 10,762
Bit of futzing and adjusting last night. Word of advice, don't stress about opening the shirt holes to fit in the sculpt like you had to do with Joker. You're free to untie the shirts collar and make room for it but I just slotted it in without doing so. The hair covers the neck area completely. It's also easier to tug the shirt out of the neck peg after you slot it in. Did some light water treatment on the bottom portion of the base outfit as well. It's too puffy straight out of the box. Use your finger tips to run it down the fabric to try to mimic the way the folds are going down. Also water futz the beard a bit as well. I want to adjust it even further so that the beard is more narrow and straight down. Need to then bring the side hairs in closer to his cheek. Have it overall be closer to how it was in Fellowship.
The hat is able to slip onto the head without it messing with the hair. Really well done there on INARTs part. Since they use a good amount of product on the hair, it doesn't get messed up when putting it on and off. There's even an adjustable metal wire for you to mess around with in the hats tip. It's insane how that one YouTuber managed to get the hat to point straight up to the sky in that photo posted a while back. You have to intentionally bend the wire to point upwards in order for it to do that. Ridiculous. I wouldn't display this with the hat but it's good to know it fits after what we went through with the initial hat from Asmus.
Something odd with my figure though is that the right elbow squeaks when bending it up and down. However the joint itself is very firm and tight so might just be a case of it being too tight. Gonna look into it later. Maybe lube it a bit or loosen the screw if there is one. There's also an ugly seam/mold thing happening on my gripping hands pointer finger. Not sure if it's a QC issue on mine or if it's universal.
Gonna mess with the outer cloak later but overall extremely impressed with the figure so far. There's a special kind of excitement and awe with this one when you see the insane rooted work done here. Crazy what they're pulling off with rooted hair on a big production scale. Just look at the subtle small curls happening all over the beard. Different texture between the hair and beard as well. Great paint on the hands to make them look old and dirty. This is a step above your typical 1/6 figure for sure with the hair work alone here.
The hat is able to slip onto the head without it messing with the hair. Really well done there on INARTs part. Since they use a good amount of product on the hair, it doesn't get messed up when putting it on and off. There's even an adjustable metal wire for you to mess around with in the hats tip. It's insane how that one YouTuber managed to get the hat to point straight up to the sky in that photo posted a while back. You have to intentionally bend the wire to point upwards in order for it to do that. Ridiculous. I wouldn't display this with the hat but it's good to know it fits after what we went through with the initial hat from Asmus.
Something odd with my figure though is that the right elbow squeaks when bending it up and down. However the joint itself is very firm and tight so might just be a case of it being too tight. Gonna look into it later. Maybe lube it a bit or loosen the screw if there is one. There's also an ugly seam/mold thing happening on my gripping hands pointer finger. Not sure if it's a QC issue on mine or if it's universal.
Gonna mess with the outer cloak later but overall extremely impressed with the figure so far. There's a special kind of excitement and awe with this one when you see the insane rooted work done here. Crazy what they're pulling off with rooted hair on a big production scale. Just look at the subtle small curls happening all over the beard. Different texture between the hair and beard as well. Great paint on the hands to make them look old and dirty. This is a step above your typical 1/6 figure for sure with the hair work alone here.
