The Great FARAMIR Image Thread!!!

[FlyAndFight]

The paint job is pretty shiny and not overall that impressive I will have to admit that. You can tell the sculpt is very good but the paint job kind of whacks it pretty good. The outfit is pretty damn nice as are the accessories. The shoulders on mine are pretty loose for some reason. First time I've had an issue with that. Overall, the figure is ok at best really I'd say someplace between a 6-7 overall.

I agree with your quick and honest review, Josh. If the headsculpt had been painted up like Boromir's or Legolas's, this figure would be a 9 or 10. Everything else besides the headsculpt paint apps (perhaps with the exception of the paint apps on the boots) is amazing.

 

[carbo-fation]

I just got my Faramir and I must say he looks great! The costume and the accessories are very detailed and well done. The sculpt is just like the prototype and is easily seen up close in person. The paint job on the face is pretty bad but no where near as aweful as Anakin or Aragorn. Overall, this is another great LOTR figure by sideshow.

 

[The Josh]

I agree with your quick and honest review, Josh. If the headsculpt had been painted up like Boromir's or Legolas's, this figure would be a 9 or 10. Everything else besides the headsculpt paint apps (perhaps with the exception of the paint apps on the boots) is amazing.

Yeah, it's kind of a bummer really. I like the figure but it doesn't meet my expectations that's for sure.

 

[Zoomaround]

I'll just have to pose Faramir in a running stance so that the shine gives the impression of sweat.

 

[The Josh]

I'll just have to pose Faramir in a running stance so that the shine gives the impression of sweat.

 

[MaulFan]

Well, I just got home so no pictures just yet, but quick thoughts on him. First off, love that the leathery parts of his outfit are soft and flexible, images had me worried they'd be rigid. Secondly, the outfit looks fantastic as do the accessories.

That's the good, the bad however pains me to speak of. Faramir joins over a dozen other human Sideshow figures in my collection, and for the first time out of all of those, I look at his face and it saddens me. I don't compare Sideshow to other manufacturer's when I judge a figure of theirs, I judget them against themselves and I don't know why, but they missed the bar significantly. The shine effect is bothersome, the eyebrows on mine are eyebrow shaped but show a real lack of effort in painting them on, my left eye has the puil almost fully on the outer edge of the iris, and of course the beard, forget being glossy, is too dark. I look at this head, and I get a vibe like Sideshow didn't care on this one and it wouldn't bother me if it weren't for the quality they've rolled out time and again, plus the fact that time and again, they show they care about their products and their collectors. I still love Sideshow, but this particular figure really brings question marks into my mind and really gives me reservations about what the next human figure in any line is going to come out like. Boromir may have been the tragedy in the story, but Faramir seems to be the tragedy of the figures.

 

[Sachiel]

Just got my tracking number. I'll see it when it gets here, but I may want to get this one repainted. Looks worse than Aragorn (which I fixed with some nail polish remover). Don't think that would work on all that glossiness. They have to keep an eye on the factory(ies) no matter what figure, line, scale it is. We arn't the only ones getting "bait and switch" it seems.

 

[MaulFan]

See, I don't get the whole bait and switch thing, arguments like that to me imply that Sideshow, with intent, gets orders for one thing and then says we got your money screw you here's a piece of crap, which is not the case. You have a 30day return window plus many see the first people get them and have time to even cancel all together, it's not as though you're stuck with it. I really think this is just an instance of a figure or two going through QC, passing, and then the workers not meeting that standard throughout the production run and I can't imagine someone is in the factory overseeing thousands of figures painted to make sure it's up to snuff. I just hope this is a fluke and not a new precedent.

 

[The Josh]

There's no bait and switch. That is the most bull ****ing **** argument I've ever heard. It's just a figure that didn't turn out as good as we had hoped. Does it suck sure but **** happens. I trust SS to make the next one as awesome as we hope.

 

[pixletwin]

There's no bait and switch. That is the most bull ****ing **** argument I've ever heard. It's just a figure that didn't turn out as good as we had hoped. Does it suck sure but **** happens. I trust SS to make the next one as awesome as we hope.

I agree. People have to realize that Sideshow is a very organic company. Things aren't processed in a cookie cutter like a Big Mac. I will reserve my opinion on the paint job until I have him in hand.

 

[Alice Adrenochrome]

It looks like Faramir is going to be like Anakin was--everybody wants it repainted, which eventually leads to dozens of repaints, all of them beautiful and even better than the prototypes were. How cool is that? Faramir, soon to reappear all over the place with beautiful customs and repaints--even in defeat he shall emerge victorious! Yippee!!!!

Nothing brings you down, right, Captain Faramir? A bit like Josh? Like I said, I'm one of the few that likes to keep the figures the way they come: no repainting here. Let this be the proof of SSC's failure to bring us a great Faramir. I'm still waiting for mine, so can't tell how big the damage is yet. Either way, I'm looking forward to it!

 

[MaulFan]

Well looks like I'm going to need a new buck body, while removie Faramir's head for a repaint, the piece the neck of the HS connects to on the buck body came off and doesn't want to go back on.

 

[jason2885]

I have had quite the adventure in order to get ahold of Faramir. I came home seeing that the package had been delivered to my house. I got home and it wasnt here and my mom said someone had called and they had delivered the package to a different address in a different town. She said he was taking the package back to UPS. So I call UPS and they tell me that they would not except the package back from him and that it would have to be picked up or something by a driver. Then the man who had the package delivered to him called and told me to come and get the package because UPS wouldnt take it back so I drove over to Earl which is about 10 miles from my house in order to get the package.


Thankfully Faramir made it here ok so thats all that matters. This is something that Im always afraid of but the worst thing is they have delivered stuff for the man that got my package to my house. Thats how he was able to get into touch with me.

 

[pixletwin]

I bought my ex. Faramir from Memnoch21 and he just let me know that UPS delivered his in the pouring rain and it was soaked through and through so it may take alittle bit longer for me to get mine.

 

[nash]

There's no bait and switch. That is the most bull ****ing **** argument I've ever heard. It's just a figure that didn't turn out as good as we had hoped. Does it suck sure but **** happens. I trust SS to make the next one as awesome as we hope.

LOL~!!!

 

[jedibear]

Just got Faramir here's quick pick before I go do a couple things. Just slapped a pose together nothing great not futzed too much on the outfit either.

The paint job is pretty shiny and not overall that impressive I will have to admit that...

AAaacckk! Oh Josh... your fine photography notwithstanding, that figure looks awful! Granted, your intense close-up is probably making that paint app look worse than it is but...it's bad. The outfit looks well-detailed & crafted, but that head is just....a train-wreck with a paint bomb. Waxy...I was looking for the wick coming out of his head...

The doily however, is top-notch .

I wonder if anyone at Sideshow can shed some light on what's going on in production now. The drastic change between proto and production seems to be widening. The paint is just garish. Yavin Luke was ok (but shiny & plain, not a steller effort paint-wise) and now Faramir just looks gloppy and bad. The hair looks nothing close to the proto-type or the images from ToyFair earlier this year...

I hope MaulFan's take on this (in post #428) is correct...just a case of production/QC issues...not anything malevolent on Sideshow's part. It's just odd that this figure was delayed and one would hope that delay would've resulted in something stunning. I saw so-called "Production" figures of Plo & Leia/Boussh at ClV and they looked great. Plo turned out good, I sure hope Leia/Boussh does too...but if Faramir is any indication...well, let's just hope it's an abberation...

 

[EVILFACE]

I agree. People have to realize that Sideshow is a very organic company. Things aren't processed in a cookie cutter like a Big Mac. I will reserve my opinion on the paint job until I have him in hand.

But how many do you have to snafu to get a right one? That should not happen. After the fantastic start with the Universal Monsters, every figure should be a winner.

They may not be cookie cutter, but the painter should spend more than 2 minutes painting a figure, and use hair color people actually grow.

But the main thing is how they see this less than humble figure and ship them on to customers without a care. Send em back and have the factory paint them like the prototype they were shown. If they don't, find another company. I'm sure China has lots of em.

 

[pixletwin]

But how many do you have to snafu to get a right one? That should not happen. After the fantastic start with the Universal Monsters, every figure should be a winner.

They may not be cookie cutter, but the painter should spend more than 2 minutes painting a figure, and use hair color people actually grow.

But the main thing is how they see this less than humble figure and ship them on to customers without a care. Send em back and have the factory paint them like the prototype they were shown. If they don't, find another company. I'm sure China has lots of em.

You are, of course, correct as well.

 

[wyrmn3500]

"But the main thing is how they see this less than humble figure and ship them on to customers without a care. Send em back and have the factory paint them like the prototype they were shown. If they don't, find another company. I'm sure China has lots of em."

I'm with Evilface on this -- he's echoed precisely how I've felt for a while now -- I remember when I saw my first Sideshow figure, Lerner from the Platoon line, in a toy magazine -- I just had to own him -- I ordered him and when I got him he was more or less exactly like the picture that prompted my purchase -- and for quite a long time, ordering from Sideshow was like that, see a picture, and what I receive is reasonably close. I don't quite understand how now I have to adjust my expectations, ask myself each time I order just how much a disparity from prototype to production I am willing to accept and wait to see how the figure has stood up between ordering and receiving it.
I love SS, I really do, but I do wish we could return to the days of CSM and Spike. I know the QC must be hard, but, really, how does something like Anakin's lips or Faramir's far less than stellar . . . everything make it through? We aren't talking a figure or two in the run, but, from my experience and from what I've read here, all of them? I've given up getting any response from SS -- I think they've been invited on several occasions in past instances -- but it would be nice to at least be told they are looking into ways to inprove the QC.

 

[Seaward]

Just got home from work to find Faramir waiting for me. I eagerly ripped him out of the box, and I share some of the same complaints that other people seem to have. I don't seem to have a face that is too shiny, but the beard is going to be an issue for me. I hadn't repainted any Sideshow figure before I got Aragorn, but his beard bothered me and I tried to tweak it, and I'll try to do the same here.

I remember the beard being much lighter in the films. I thought his hair color was a little more strawberry blonde, but the hair on the figure seems okay, the beard is just off. It looks like they went for a dark wash with some highlights drybrushed on, but the highlight paint color looks to be so similar to the skin tone that it just looks poorly painted. The sculpt is great though, and really captures the David Wenham likeness.

The boots will need a repaint too, as the weathering was a little overdone on these as well. Very nice sculpted boots, just need to back it up a step in terms of the rust-colored wash.

The exclusive accessory is what I was looking forward to most, but the plastic is the soft rubbery kind, and it just doesn't seem as nice as the horn that came with Boromir.

I was really looking forward to Faramir, as he looked to be as good as his brother. I'd give him a 7 out of 10, but with a little work, he look great on the shelf.