Captain Britain
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- Joined
- Jan 26, 2008
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- 3,596
- Reaction score
- 6
Finally got to spend some quality time with my Sherlock. There's no way my pictures could do justice to him - JonWes and Darklord Dave have already put up some excellent pics. But I will say, this is a figure that has to be seen in hand to be believed. The skin tone is the best I've ever seen - nothing like the pale skin you see in so many photos - just the right shade for a caucasian skin tone, and the skin is nicely textured with pores - he's got pores! - and subtle lines around the eyes, which is just right given the actor's age. The detail is incredible - love the tiny mole over his right eye, which is amazing itself, but which actually appears to have been painted!!! The colours generally are in no way too white - there are pinks in there, but diffused over the whole face (with Ten they tended to be concentrated around his cheeks). The eyebrows look like they've been picked out individually with paint brushes made from a single hair (and maybe they were).
Speaking of which, this is a quantum leap over Ten - which we all raved over last Christmas - just as the Tenth Doctor was an improvement on Eleven. I also love that the eye work is perfect, down to the veins in the whites of his eyes, the colour of the pupils is spot on, and the hair - which looks black from a distance - is actually a number of different shades of brown. It's a pleasure generally to see a caucasian figure with a skin tone that isn't too oriental, and this extends to the hands, which are fantastic (and MUCH more realistically proportioned than Hot Toys hands which look puffy and overlarge when compared side by side). Love the textured neck. Perhaps the neck could be a little longer... but if you look at photos of Sherlock it doesn't need to be, I think collectors always think a character's neck is too short.
People have criticised the body for being too floppy. After all the comment I was expecting a sideshow Indy scale abomination, but in fact it is a SMIDGEN floppier than the TT Slim I swopped it too (and swopped it back from) - but not so much that anything is a problem. The dimensions are identical with a TT slim, although the legs are marginally longer on the BCS body. Yes, his right shoe falls off! Nothing that a dab of glue can't fix. Love the paint job... on the heel of his shoe! Yes, the paint job on a part of the figure that you never see on display!!!! If that's not attention to detail I don't know what is.
I think the tailoring is brilliant, from the buttons to the overall silhouette. People were saying the coat is too thick, but I can't really see this. My one nitpick is that I would have liked the scarf a little lighter to stand out more from a distance. And the button on the trousers - once you've undone it it is impossible to do up! But the feel of the material generally is really nice. The suit needs futzing if you display it without a coat simply because no suit that is designed to go under a coat will look perfect when the coat is removed. The accessories are, y'know, accessories, especially the amazing violin and bow. And the skull which rather nicely turns out to have one point of articulation!
I would definitely advise anyone who is on the fence about getting Sherlock to pull the trigger because I doubt he'll be around long, and by the time the next series starts filming in January I think he'll be fetching a premium (never mind Christmas 2015 when the next series begins). This is a really nice figure, made with a lot of love and is a lot of fun to play with. But possibly my favourite thing about it is that I've shown it to people who don't even know about the existence of high-end figures... and they've freaked out over how cool it is. I love that response.
Speaking of which, this is a quantum leap over Ten - which we all raved over last Christmas - just as the Tenth Doctor was an improvement on Eleven. I also love that the eye work is perfect, down to the veins in the whites of his eyes, the colour of the pupils is spot on, and the hair - which looks black from a distance - is actually a number of different shades of brown. It's a pleasure generally to see a caucasian figure with a skin tone that isn't too oriental, and this extends to the hands, which are fantastic (and MUCH more realistically proportioned than Hot Toys hands which look puffy and overlarge when compared side by side). Love the textured neck. Perhaps the neck could be a little longer... but if you look at photos of Sherlock it doesn't need to be, I think collectors always think a character's neck is too short.
People have criticised the body for being too floppy. After all the comment I was expecting a sideshow Indy scale abomination, but in fact it is a SMIDGEN floppier than the TT Slim I swopped it too (and swopped it back from) - but not so much that anything is a problem. The dimensions are identical with a TT slim, although the legs are marginally longer on the BCS body. Yes, his right shoe falls off! Nothing that a dab of glue can't fix. Love the paint job... on the heel of his shoe! Yes, the paint job on a part of the figure that you never see on display!!!! If that's not attention to detail I don't know what is.
I think the tailoring is brilliant, from the buttons to the overall silhouette. People were saying the coat is too thick, but I can't really see this. My one nitpick is that I would have liked the scarf a little lighter to stand out more from a distance. And the button on the trousers - once you've undone it it is impossible to do up! But the feel of the material generally is really nice. The suit needs futzing if you display it without a coat simply because no suit that is designed to go under a coat will look perfect when the coat is removed. The accessories are, y'know, accessories, especially the amazing violin and bow. And the skull which rather nicely turns out to have one point of articulation!
I would definitely advise anyone who is on the fence about getting Sherlock to pull the trigger because I doubt he'll be around long, and by the time the next series starts filming in January I think he'll be fetching a premium (never mind Christmas 2015 when the next series begins). This is a really nice figure, made with a lot of love and is a lot of fun to play with. But possibly my favourite thing about it is that I've shown it to people who don't even know about the existence of high-end figures... and they've freaked out over how cool it is. I love that response.
