I have enough Bazaar figs at this point to fill up more than one fig stand - but I'm still happy to get more. With any luck, I might manage to put together the whole shoot at this rate!
The inspiration for this fig set are these pictures from the official Harper's Bazaar x 山河令 issue:
And since the photos aren't quite enough, here's one of the official videos, featuring our favorite extremely charged weiqi game:
The scene with the crossed arms is at 1.08.
I do feel you need a pic with the full body outfits for fig comparison pics, so let me rustle up another one...
Didn't mind going back to this pic one bit! In fact, the less frequently posted but just as good second pic in this set...
We deserve it! Side note...I do NOT have a fig set of this scene yet, which seems like a grave oversight. That's all. I'm just saying. Please and thank you fig makers!
These two arrived safely in their polystyrene boxes. I have to say at this point, I'm pretty sold on these boxes as a protection mechanism - I've had extremely good look with them. I used to air bubble wrap everything, but these days I don't, which not only dramatically reduces the shipping volume, therefore saving me expensive ship costs, but dramatically increases my will to live when staring down huge boxes of solidly taped shut bubble wrap.
Here's a close up of these figs - please note the Zhehan socks and woven leather shoes combo and Gong Jun's big stompy boots, I love them.
Here's their benches too. The benches are nice and stable, no wobbles here.
And here they are! Look at those FACES. You know how much I love that sideways smile! This is the fig maker that always does the beauty marks on the ears too, which is always a nice touch.
These are just too perfect. I like the poses quite a bit, with Zhehan's hand on the bench and Junjun's on his knee.
Those are some shorter shorts there, gentlemen. I'd say they were at least mid-thigh length.
I ended up gluing them down as they didn't balance at all on the seats. I have learned (the hard way!) that fig stickers only work if the figs are pretty perfectly balanced to begin with.
This is time for my obligatory comment on how much I love Zhehan's hair in this style. Just amazing, my all time favorite.
You can see how the chairs are quite stable here - all four legs on the ground for each one!
I'm so happy these delicate pieces survived shipping intact!
This is a nice shot of Zhehan's curling-up smile.
And we're back around! What cuties. The fig maker did such a nice job with these - the eyes and expressions are just top notch.
I feel like the fig makers have really dialed in the process at this point! We get such good quality and such good detail.
Nice and flat undersides here, so they sit firmly in the chairs - at least once they have a little bit of glue.
Their feet are even posed differently (and cutely!) no replication of body types here.
I'll say once again how much I love Zhehan's hand on the bench. Adorable.
One last shot of them posing in their picture shot - I guess I should have scooted them in a little bit more so their wrists would have crossed!
Our very beautiful fig cards.
Material: Resin
Fig Count: 462
Scene Count: 31 (I already used this little scene before!)