My Merry and Pippin expansion sets arrived. My thoughts:
- Merry: horrible. Super blonde hair is a huge helmet. Accuracy is terribly weak. Face is too chubby, eyes tiny, guy looks like a pig. Paintjob ok. Expression is ok but with that level of inaccuracy, it is not useful anyway. I clearly prefer my v1 head, which does not have too rosy cheeks.
- Pippin: hair ok, paintjob ok, accuracy bad, expression makes headsculpt useless (come on, these guys spend most of the trilogy scared and fighting; sculpting Pipp smiling is a terrible stupid sin). I will have to use v1.
These 2 headsculpt are not worth the money. For much less, you get much more and much better on eBay. But these are the only Hobbit heads available. I will use them to kitbash the 2 hobbit guys working at the Prancing Pony (Nob and... ???).
I can believe so many people just have loved these 2 failures of a head sculpt and run away happy everafter. Too hivemind thinking around here, I am afraid.
From my point of view, Asmus keeps at a loss when it comes to giving us... heads. I know I am the only one thinking this. Sad, for the only way to get good stuff from good-willed but disoriented companies is complaining to them in one voice and demanding improvements. We are lucky enough Asmus does listen.
Regards,
m.
Edit: rossy--->rosy
Edit2: wake--->weak
Edit3: mooooore shameful grammar mistakes fixed.
So, the Merry/Pippin expansion set is shipping, but not the Sam/Frodo expansion set?
