For Part II: comparison photos added in Post 11; For Part III: transfer to M31 in Post 21.
Part I: selection of items from the two sets on M32
At the risk of causing outrage, I confess that I am not a huge Queen fan. I like many of their songs, but that is about it. Nevertheless, I am fascinated by sixth-scale renditions of real people, whether historical or modern, so when I saw the Win C Freddie sets parted out, I picked up a few (a lot) of the pieces. I would not have bought either of them as sets, because the singing head that came with what I considered to be the more iconic look appeared too cartoonish to me and, again, I was not so invested in this anyway.
So here are the pieces, put on a TBLeague M32 body (Win C recommended using M31, but some of you already know exactly how much -- or how little -- I like that abomination). The outfit is the one from the Live Aid concert set, the head is from the Wembley Stadium set. The microphones are not from either set. Two things stand out as being a little off (apart from the more muscular physique of the M32 body): the jeans are not bluish enough and, while they got a lot right, there is something off with the head. A little of that is with the hairline, including the part over the center of the forehead, but I also think they gave him exaggerated and pale bags under the eyes. And not enough eyeliner, and eyeliner was key to Freddie Mercury's look, as pointed out by the really talented kid in the YouTube video linked at the end. In the first set, I tried to improve the look by trying to simulate the profuse sweating on the head with some water.
The head kept bothering me, so I tried to fix it a little by using the art pencils technique for improving head sculpts I once saw advertised in a YouTube video by Jazz Inc. I added a little here and there to the hairline (although I could do nothing about the sculpted part over the forehead), and a lot of eyeliner around the eyes. I cannot really tell whether this helped, but I hope it did.
