jadekite22
Super Freak
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I've been all in on fully sculpted hair since day 1 but I know the majority of people kept saying it wouldn't work in 1/2 scale which I'm still not sure if entirely true. But my worries with non-sculpted hair is exactly in that picture...frizzy, can be difficult to place in the best position, looks different statue to statue, just too many variables.
Personally, I think even the 1:4 scale PF fails to keep Gadot's hair from looking like solid block. The hair placement here is one of things I see as having improved from the proto, where it sat too far forward and was too thick at the top. Frizz aside (which shouldn't be an issue compared to the Hot Toy because the rooted hair at this size actually has enough weight to sit naturally) I see this as workable, whereas the prototype placement killed the likeness regardless of whether the presenters bothered to comb the hair or just toss the head on the statue as-is.
At this point, with variables like this and translucent resin skin, I always expect bad photos to surface initially. Same thing happened with Batman, Superman and Joker. The good ones (like these) so far have since cancelled any doubt I had about the quality of those pieces, so I'm hoping that's the case here.