13/06/2007

Legolas - The Lord of the Rings

God I hated the result of this one. Once opened the box it was a catastrophe from the buck body to the face sculpt. He looked more like James "Spike" Marsters than Orlando Bloom.
First of all, swap the Buck to a 301 Medicom and respect the size and shape of Legolas. Of course now, every element of his clothes has to be sew correctly to fit on the new body.
2nd part (the hardest) resculpt the head and at some point when you got a character with long hair, plastic hair is too cheap so you have to change that too.
Other small improvement like the armbraces with real laces and I add the elven cape from the DID, not long enough but I like it.
I've tried many time to upgrade him this is maybe the fourth attempt but honestly at this point, I don't think I can do better.


Here what this dude looks like once the box opened :