Legend says that Shaun's face will be based on Wife's and Husband's faces. Is that even true?

Below is the comparison between his mom and him. I don't have his dead Daddy's photo because I didn't know about this fact earlier. His frozen corpse wouldn't help much.

So whatchu think? Does he inherit some of my character's face?

http://i.imgur.com/rTKJt9M.jpg

Yes.
Likely a similar script to the one used in Fallout 3 to match up appearances between the player and Dad.
Sort of a morph script.

Is it really accurate or not?

Yeah stick a beard and a lab coat on her and she'll look just like him.

From what I'm seeing, he has her eyes and cheekbones. Keep in mind that we're comparing a young woman and an old man so there ya go.

Yes he does. To a certain degree at least. It's never a perfect match but I have always seen some of a character's features represented in Father's face.

I had this other thread on creating the most ugly Nate to see how Shaun turns out to be. Some people were claimking, only the skin color changes.

Given the various differences in pictures of father of a quick https://www.google.nl/search?q=fallout+4+father+face&biw=1920&bih=916&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwih-M6exa7KAhXDJg8KHTs8Cg8QsAQIOQ&gws_rd=cr&ei=F1WaVqSlLMa-PPWMtMgC#tbm=isch&q=fallout+4+father+institute, I'd say there is at least some subtle differences. Particularly if you concentrate on an obvious feature like the nose.

We won't know anything for sure until the geck is out to so we can look under the hood properly. It could possibly be based off the chosen preset in chargen. Changes on a preset then wouldn't affect Father.

I can confirm from experience that Father not only inherits skin-tone, but facial features as well. I've got a fat-faced Father that takes after his dead dad, a baby-faced Father that takes after his hawt mom, and a narrow-faced Father that takes after his Frank Zappa lookalike dad (with default wife).

I really need to make an online gallery of my Fathers and families.

Good idea. I went through a few of my old saves to check whether Father's appearance changed any. And it's very noticeable.

He also takes nose shapes, mouth shapes, general head contours, eyes, etc. I have no Idea about the people who say Father only changes skin colour. Seems to me they've either never seen Father a few times, or they're full of BS, or for some reason the game doesn't apply facial features for them.