Got mine today. Overall, I'm really impressed!
The box - I read posts describing it as massive, and yep, it really is massive!
The quality of the tailoring is really impressive - the feel of the fabric and the fit of the main robe especially. The wires in the sleeves will take some finessing, but I like them.
The quality and quantity of the accessories is remarkable all round, this really feels like a premium product in that regard, even down to the sculpted wool texture on the gloved hands. The photo album with the lenticulars, especially - that's so cool.
I think I got lucky with the body and wrist pegs, everything is articulating as it should be and I haven't had any issues with hand swaps thus far.
Small niggles - I've been finding it hard to keep the glasses level for some reason, like the grooves on his temples aren't doing all they should be to keep them in place. Also the hair on the top of his head is so densely glued that when I popped off the back hatch to access the SERS, it wouldn't come off all the way - so I've got a kind of flap thing going on. Also, it's kind of odd that they didn't put anything on the pages of Flying With The Cannons, as the other books all have writing in them. Even a lorem ipsum would have done if they didn't have any reference material or the time to do anything more detailed.
Unfortunately, my headsculpt came off its perch in transit, and there's a little scuff on his right cheek. It's only visible from some angles in some lighting conditions and I'm still making my mind up about whether it's significant enough to bother Kit with a replacement request, but it's annoying - there must be a better way to secure these heads.
I took a few quick pictures but I might try again when there's more light to work with. The glasses are very reflective and make him pretty hard to photograph without a lot of control over the lighting.
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Also, as an aside, I quickly snapped this picture of Inart's Harry next to the old Star Ace kid Harry, a figure I've enjoyed for years despite its flaws. Though I know people aren't so keen on Star Ace here, I'm not posting this as a mockery of that older figure, but I thought the side-by-side was interesting - Inart's obviously has a better likeness and the tailoring is leaps and bounds ahead of Star Ace's, but it's also considerably smaller than the old Star Ace figure, and by some degree. It means that the old Star Ace accessories that I was considering keeping out on display with the new Inart figures (like the Nimbus 2000 and the Snitch) are likely to be slightly out of scale.
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