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

[spaceghost2000]

My experience with this figure is that the sculpt looks amazing under natural light, and borderline terrible under certain artificial lights.
Hard shadows destroy the likeness. Nice defused light make it look incredible.

I disagree, the likeness seems to really pop under harsher light that shows the fine creases in the face.

Nicely sculpted? I thought it lacked detail.
I mean looking at the comparisons here, the rooted looks on a different level imo.

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[i_amjam]

Arrived yesterday. Didn’t even have time to properly outfit and futz yet.

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Really liking the look of that stand for him

 

[IAmIronMan]

I don't have this in hand yet because I waffled between sculpted and rooted, having ordered the Gandalf already. Really glad I went for the rooted. My issue with InArt rooted still persists. The paint is just to shiny, and the sculpt not HD enough. I ended up selling my sculpted Joker and tracking down a 2 pack for a decent price for that exact reason.

 

[DrWeaponX]

Haven’t had a lot of time to futz him properly but did a little work on the hair by giving him bangs and removing the pre-applied product and adding in some pomade. Such a great figure though.
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Looks great! How did you go about getting the product out?

 

[ThorRagnarok]

I used the staff as added support Isn't that what its for

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hey your aragorn looks different to mine!

 

[Sassafras]

I will preach that the sculpted Bruce Wayne runs laps around the rooted one. Even the "styled" ones end up looking like a Hot Topic Halloween wig crossed with a ****** bowl cut. It does seem like they improved that on Harry Potter though.

I am a pretty ardent believer that if it's a shorter style than shoulder-ish length, just sculpt it and stick with it. Obviously there are exceptions like Beetlejuice, but on the whole there is a point of diminishing return.

Speaking of diminishing returns - and maybe cutomizers can comment - I've got so much product in mine to tamp down the volume I wonder what the point is vs. sculpted. I always thought rooted if well done needs minimal product that's kind of the selling focus.

Oh well maybe one day I'll have the skill set to just redo the whole thing. At least InArt has plenty of dwarf hair on hand.

 

[Stanlore]

Finally opened mine up last night. Man... the hair product they sprayed on the hair to keep the shape felt like super glue. Hard as a rock !

Took a lot of water to wash that out... still messing with it to get it the way I want it to be, but i now understand why alot of people didn't mess with it. For mine, the top of the head was styled and pinhed inwards, and the head shape looked more like a pinecone. Had to wash it out and reshape it to have a more natural rounder shape to his top dome.

Also i noticed on mine, that the hair seems a little shorter then everyone else. Hair length barely touches the shoulders. Overall still very cool looking figure, but need time and patience to make it look great.

 

[aeseven7]

Looks great! How did you go about getting the product out?

Honestly just a small amount of water and rubbing it in gently with my finger to the areas that needed it (top and upper sides.)