You know, I'm a big lover of Sideshow figures and I see the occassional fault or two in a figure, but no fault in any of the figures I own has ever affected me ability to enjoy the figure to the fullest. However, Faramir just got to me, and ya, if I put him high on a shelf and looked at him from accross the room, he'd look fine, but I like to play with my figures in various poses and accessory combinations as well as photgraphing them, and when you get up close and personal with him, it's ground for dissappointment. Mine had eyebrows painted on that looked like they were a makeup job on a drag queen, his eyes weren't painted looking in the same direction, one pupil was on the outer edge of the iris from from centered, the skin tone was very shiny, part of the neck skin tone paint was chipped away, the beard was very dark and glossy, and the skin tone added to the beard to thin it out looks like pink compared to his tan skin tone paint. From a distance that could all blend to hardly noticable, but looking at it in your hands, it just leaves you feeling like a lack of care went into painting this head, and again, I'm judging him by other Sideshow figures, and I've only been collecting ones made in the last year, so in theory, the factories should be the same and the quality should be the same, yet Faramir lefting me thinking "what happend?" Perhaps this glossy beard syndrome he and Aragorn had reflect a particular factory (if Sideshow does have multiple sits overseas) and if so, this particular factory really needs to be scrutinized because it's poorly representing Sideshow.
