Asmus Toys : Legolas (wip thread)

[K.bowen]

I ordered yesterday and received a confirmation email as well as an email for creating an account. Check your junk mail and/or that you entered the right address?

I forget to check there... Thank you for reminding me. All good got both notifications, I think this is asmus's best lotr figure so far and I cant wait, after that all I need is gimli and boromir then ill have the whole fellowship by asmus. I dont think ill be getting anymore after that except possibly some variants off them like Aragorn from helms deep.

 

[Rzeznikk]

Canceled my order with BBTS and went with SS cheaper price and with rewards brought it down to $166 shipped. Not too shabby.

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[Timemeddler]

Made my own instead.

 

[Jrobertson]

That looks awesome nice work

 

[Thainitty]

Incredible custom timemeddler

 

[Timemeddler]

Cheers guys!

 

[FlyAndFight]

Very nice custom!!

 

[Platty]

Awesome Custom. I always loved the Darren carnall head sculpt!!

 

[Timemeddler]

Awesome Custom. I always loved the Darren carnall head sculpt!!

That's actually just a re-painted Sideshow head...

 

[Platty]

That's actually just a re-painted Sideshow head...

Oh wow, very nice.

 

[FlyAndFight]

Wow! I thought it was the Darren Carnell custom sculpt as well.

 

[Timemeddler]

 

[Bucky Underbelly]

It's easy to forget that sometimes under all that awful paint, Sideshow could hide a really good sculpt!

Great work uncovering it, Timemeddler!

 

[FlyAndFight]

The photo effects also help.

 

[Timemeddler]

I can't take credit for the repaint; that is the work of Mark Simpson. Here are the "raw" photos, without any effects:

 

[FlyAndFight]

It looks great!

 

[Queen Mab]

Wow - I wish mine had that repaint!!
And the leather works on his shoulder pads are great too!

But the Sideshow Sculpts were actually good- my Aragorn also had a repaint, though I do not know by whom since I got him from ebay, but he really looks astonishing.

 

[FlyAndFight]

Agreed. The sculpts on the Sideshow LOTR figures were actually well done. It was the poor factory paint applications that hurt the figures.

I repainted my Aragorn and Faramir head sculpts and it made a HUGE difference.

Legolas, Boromir and the two hobbits were not too bad, so I kept them as they were. But now I see that a repaint on Legolas truly enhances the sculpt.

 

[SithThundercracker]

I do agree that repainted heads make big difference (I went this route with all my figures) but old SSC sculpts are not on par with current sculpts in terms of details and are a tad big. Also SSC buck bodies were a tragedy and the clothing were tailored for that silly proportions.

 

[Timemeddler]

I replaced the original Sideshow body on this custom with a narrow shoulder true-type body, and I think the clothing fits fine!!!