InArt: The Lord of the Rings - Aragorn 1:6

Was able to take some pictures in daylight

okieh 2 said:

Just water - mine was soaked in product- it was good to get rid of some of it

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Yeah, can't believe I'm saying this, I've got too much hair e.g. volume, not length. Too poufy/thick. The only time it looks right is when the hair is pretty wet.
Gave him a final rinse and giving up. I'm just gonna have to have an Aragorn with "good hair" e.g. lots of it.

Guess I could go in and thin out, one way or the other, with the real chance of messing the whole thing up. The other option is loading it with product but hair stuff isn't designed to last over the long term. There's actually gluing it but nope.

Sassafras said:

Yeah, can't believe I'm saying this, I've got too much hair e.g. volume, not length. Too poufy/thick. The only time it looks right is when the hair is pretty wet.
Gave him a final rinse and giving up. I'm just gonna have to have an Aragorn with "good hair" e.g. lots of it.

Guess I could go in and thin out, one way or the other, with the real chance of messing the whole thing up. The other option is loading it with product but hair stuff isn't designed to last over the long term. There's actually gluing it but nope.

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It’s ironic to me that people like yourself who are the most skeptical of INART always seem to get the worst/bad ones, the just “good” ones. Genuinely, I do feel bad cause it’s always something that keeps you from being pretty happy with their products. That, or you have higher standards or unreasonable expectations for their product.

Sassafras said:

Yeah, can't believe I'm saying this, I've got too much hair e.g. volume, not length. Too poufy/thick. The only time it looks right is when the hair is pretty wet.
Gave him a final rinse and giving up. I'm just gonna have to have an Aragorn with "good hair" e.g. lots of it.

Guess I could go in and thin out, one way or the other, with the real chance of messing the whole thing up. The other option is loading it with product but hair stuff isn't designed to last over the long term. There's actually gluing it but nope.

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I used a lot of hair products on my custom Aragorn and it worked pretty well

HyperDrive said:

It’s ironic to me that people like yourself who are the most skeptical of INART always seem to get the worst/bad ones, the just “good” ones. Genuinely, I do feel bad cause it’s always something that keeps you from being pretty happy with their products. That, or you have higher standards or unreasonable expectations for their product.

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That's the Mortis gods giving me the universal symbol, as usual. No, I wasn't looking to bash InArt for reasons. There's tremendous hype at times.

I don't know that I had any particular expectations...it would have been nice to have been blown away. Hadn't given it a lot of thought, tho since I own more that one ASMUS Thorin yeah, some have better hair than others. Usually with a rooted sculpt I'd worry the hair got skimped on.
So here the hair was cut too short but is too thick, lots of wave, so it looks more IMO like Richard Gere with long hair than Viggo. Either that or Viggo suddenly got really good hair.

I used a lot of hair products on my custom Aragorn and it worked pretty well

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Yeah, for this one to flatten the hair out it's gonna take product, and probably outright heat treating to get rid of the curl, and maybe chemical straightening. And some sort of professional to thin out all this &^%$ hair - which on the plus side since I washed it out, does feel like fine, silky mohair.

It'll work out, eventually I can do the hooded Ranger look like the old Sideshow statue. I just wasn't planning on spending hours on this fig - or any fig at the moment, with real life etc.

My first InArt - would I buy another? Yes. Am I blown away? No. He's pretty good and IMO needs some work. Wish I had ordered the sculpted even tho I don't usually mind futzing. But it will be fine. At least I have a decent paint etc.

Finally happy with his futzing and pose for the shelf .

Kit finally shipped mine out. Can't wait to see it in hand will probably get the cloak.

Tried to do one more run on the taming the hair with a stronger hair product. The curls kinda bounced back after a while and didn't stay flat to the sides. I guess it's the nature of the wool used and the hair product I initially used doesn't have a strong hold. Pardon the finger.

Aragorn premium just arrived from Kit in 9 days and no taxes and no any additional cost at the border , at first glance its freaking beatiful.

Thank you @Kit Chen so much. Love from Europe.

Soooo the neck peg... it needs to be heated up right? tried to push it in but man no way its going in without heating up I think.

Giimli86 said:

Soooo the neck peg... it needs to be heated up right? tried to push it in but man no way its going in without heating up I think.

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Nope, just goes in for me.

Update on my KG order. Package arrived in Italy today. I reckon it will be delivered in 2-3 days.

I have once again restyled the hair

So are ya'lls magnetic bases working pretty good?

vspectra said:

So are ya'lls magnetic bases working pretty good?

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I can lift the figure up and the base doesn’t even come off

Bleah said:

Tried to do one more run on the taming the hair with a stronger hair product. The curls kinda bounced back after a while and didn't stay flat to the sides. I guess it's the nature of the wool used and the hair product I initially used doesn't have a strong hold. Pardon the finger.

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That looks pretty good. Yah, since I washed out all the original product his hair looks more like Sam Bankman-Fried.

I think mine is gonna take a combination of heat and after reading about getting "wet look" hair, super hold gel as well as clips to literally weight the hair as it dries. The positive tho is assuming this is mohair that's a tough fiber, plus I've got so much hair don't have to worry about shedding. Usually I have the opposite problem with rooted sculpts with not enough hair.

Shame this isn't Thorin, who could benefit from this kind of fiber. Or Gimli. If they do Legolas I'll be interested in what kind of fiber. I don't know if mohair can be completely straightened to look like "elf hair".

vspectra said:

So are ya'lls magnetic bases working pretty good?

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The magnets seem solid enough on mine, but I noticed today he was doing the Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal lean. I don't think the ankles are all that tight, so watch out.

Noticed today that I have 2 weathered hands rather than 1 being clean.

That's 3 of my 4 inart figures to have this.

MojoMonkey said:

The magnets seem solid enough on mine, but I noticed today he was doing the Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal lean. I don't think the ankles are all that tight, so watch out.

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InArt doesn't seem to seal their paint as well as Hot Toys at least based on my Gandalf figure. My figure has a visible paint rub on the end of his nose after Gandalf face-planted onto my hardwood floor from a bottom Detolf shelf (I opened the door not seeing that the figure was leaning against the door). Not taking the chance with Aragrorn.