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Title: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on September 18, 2013, 03:46 PM
What's the most awesome pose you've gotten a figure into?  The one you called your wife in to see, and she rolls her eyes.  The one the kids went, "That's awesome!", when they saw it.

I put the Clone Sgt. on my desk in a simple "at attention" pose...  It's calm, passive, but that menacing helmet and the clean armor.  It just screams that scene where the Empire's military might is basically born.  The rifle's resting against his shoulder delicately...  I love it.  Never really put a Clone in this pose, but I could imagine a hundred of them with appropriate officer colors mixed in would look pretty damn cool this way.

Not dynamic by any means...  but it inspired me.

You know you've done this too...  You know you've achieved some pretty cool looks with your figures, and you don't want to admit you were playing with your dolls posing your action figures for display.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on September 19, 2013, 10:57 PM
20 views and I'm the only guy making his figures look awesome?  For shame, people.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Matt_Fury on September 20, 2013, 01:49 AM
Look at my collection....all my figures look awesome where they are.  Especially the ones on the table in the center of the room.   :)
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jeff on September 20, 2013, 09:31 AM
20 views and I'm the only guy making his figures look awesome?  For shame, people.

I used to have a lot of my figures in awesome poses... then I moved.  Now they are all in the "smooshed inside a ziplock bag" pose.  Not very exciting.  :-\

When I get my new collection room set up, I'll have to revisit this thread...
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jayson on September 20, 2013, 11:15 AM
Hard to say since I pose so many.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: P-Siddy on September 20, 2013, 01:32 PM
20 views and I'm the only guy making his figures look awesome?  For shame, people.

I used to have a lot of my figures in awesome poses... then I moved.  Now they are all in the "smooshed inside a ziplock bag" pose.  Not very exciting.  :-\

When I get my new collection room set up, I'll have to revisit this thread...

Yeah, my figures are pretty much in the same situation.  I do have a few out though, but haven't found the drive to get to them with the rest of the house needing attention.  Maybe I'll grab a few figures each day.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on September 20, 2013, 04:40 PM
I consider those in Jeff's situation as having their figures in an extended deep space stasis chamber pose....  FTW
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on September 20, 2013, 04:41 PM
Hard to say since I pose so many.

Must have faves...

One of mine is a Hoth trooper crawling n firing back over his shoulder ala the micro Hoth fig.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Muftak on September 20, 2013, 06:47 PM
What's the most awesome pose you've gotten a figure into?  The one you called your wife in to see, and she rolls her eyes.  The one the kids went, "That's awesome!", when they saw it.

Back in the day, I put the VOTC Chewbacca in a one footed pose, with his other foot kicking straight up over his head. He stood all by himself, and mind you he doesn't have foot holes to cheat. That pose merited the "Honey, come in here, you gotta see this!!"

Prior to that, circa 2002, I had an office space with this long twelve-foot shelf on it. I set up an epic war scene, combining OT and PT figures, Luke and Leia side by side with Obi-Wan and Anakin. Highlights of that one were an Imperial Sentinel/Atha-Prime commanding a squad of clone troopers, and POTJ Bespin Han with his blaster pressed to the bucket of a kneeling, arms-splayed CT Stormtrooper. When my then 6-year old nephew saw that set up, it made him want a Star Wars collection of his own.

So yeah, I'm in the pose them camp.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Diddly on September 22, 2013, 10:47 PM
I pose mine neutrally on the display shelf for space reasons but when playing with them testing the articulation, I like to put them in "running while shooting behind" poses.

I have other "favorites" though... for troopers it's some sort of "at attention" type pose. Then I'll usually have Vader standing tall with his hands near his hips, showing off his height/power I guess. Anytime I can get a Jedi to hold a lightsaber with two hands is great too.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Qui-Gon Jim on September 23, 2013, 09:13 AM
I can't believe no one has posted an R-rated picture of figures posed here yet.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on September 24, 2013, 09:02 PM
Excellent stories...

I too, for some reason, enjoy the "firing while running away" pose...  That's why I have the Rebel Trooper on the ground shooting back at something he's crawling away from.

My AT-ST crewmen are inspecting damage to their walker...  No not literal damage from it falling over, but one's walking up the hip in the back inspecting the rear of the cabin for damage while the commander has his leg partially in the hatch while he leans over the rail to point out where the damage may be.

All the while a technician watches from below with a jerry can of something, and a tool or piece of some sort.

I made a nice pose of a Fleet Trooper "trudging"...  not marching, or walking, but rather looking sad, head down, helmet slouched forward, trudging off to an impossible situation...  He has a 30AC Spacetrooper's rifle with a homemade sling over his shoulder, his arms almost dragging because of the distance and purpose of his trudge...

Hey, if you lived in a galaxy where all kinds of ships are buzzing around that could fly you in minutes where you have to go, but you're walking, and you're probably gonna die, you'd trudge too!
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: SnTrooper on October 1, 2013, 06:17 PM
I can't believe no one has posted an R-rated picture of figures posed here yet.
(http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/SnTrooper/Rebelscum/P1010099.jpg)
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: P-Siddy on October 1, 2013, 08:53 PM
^ Don't ask.  Don't tell.

As for R-rated pics, that would have been back in the GI Joe days with Flint and Lady Jay having fun on the bed in the PIT's prison cell.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on October 1, 2013, 09:03 PM
When I try to pose my figures, I try not to work so BLUE.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jayson on October 2, 2013, 10:50 PM
I'm having entirely too much fun with Mara Jade.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on October 2, 2013, 11:25 PM
Saw your headswap Jayson...  Looking to pick that up myself with a 2nd Mara.

I've seen many enjoying 2-handed poses for their Jedi, but I'm more of a "crouched" pose guy for Jedi, one hand out in a force pose type dealio, and the saber behind and slightly raised for a pimp slap.

I've achieved some pretty awesome battle poses with Jedi since they, in particular, can be made look acrobatically awesome.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jayson on October 3, 2013, 12:07 AM
Yeah, there is a second head swap (http://yakfaceforums.com/main/2013/10/02/update-the-mara-fix-2-0/) for Mara which is probably more in keeping with her character. Again, using a Marvel figure (with some mods)
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: CaptainYoda on October 3, 2013, 05:25 PM
And both head swaps look better than the head Mara comes with.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on October 3, 2013, 06:51 PM
Not a fan of "windswept hair" look...  Too actiony for me.  I'm trackign down that other head one way or another though.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jabba the Slug on November 18, 2013, 03:25 PM
I just found this section and laughed because this is the literal definition of my relationship with my action figures (No, dammit, don't call them dolls, they're collectibles!)

I'm having a lot of fun posing the 6 inch figures in really dynamic poses - right now Maul looks like he could have been taken out of a frame from his duel and Han is doing the half-turned, shooting and running pose.

Oh, and I just got the 30th Anniversary Mustafar panning droid from eBay the other day. Obviously you can imagine how much freakin fun it is posing Ani and Obi fighting on that thing.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on November 18, 2013, 03:41 PM
I posed a scanner technician so both his ankles were as bent far forward as they could be, and his knees bent as far down as possible, and then his hips...

And he either looks like he's taking a dump, or going to jump from that position as far as he can like in athletic performance tests.

I wanted to just see how low he'd crouch and that figure's impressive in its range of motion for the legs.

The arms, however, are not perfect...  I love that figure, don't get me wrong, but he can barely hold a blaster with 2 hands due to there not being a good range of movement left/right at the elbow joints from some fabric folds in his sculpt.  Other figures suffer from that and sometimes the slightest cut away of plastic can make all the difference.

Also just hit me that the "new" Imperial Officer, Scanner Techs, and about a billion other figures have swappable heads...  I knew the Officer and Techie did from early reports, but it's the same size head as the Naboo Trooper, Fleet Trooper, Hoth Troopers, etc.  Let the diversity begin....  so long as you have a ton of little black hats, I guess.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Scockery on November 18, 2013, 04:05 PM
Yeah, tons of little black hats....everyone has.

Reminds me.

How come China grey market sellers rarely  have accessories?

How come no one custom casts accessories like that? Or am I out of the loop?

There's a few "super articulated" figures with not-so-great elbow movement. Hoth Han comes to mind.
Title: Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
Post by: Jesse James on November 18, 2013, 08:36 PM
Yup, they made a big divet so he gets a nice tight pose upward, but it basically won't let him move his arm left/right at the elbows to any great effect.

China sellers I've found usually have overproduction junk...  Well not usually, but in the line of stuff, they aren't always sure what accessory goes with what even.  They'll sometimes just throw something random in even, to fill it out a little, but others research and find out what a figure requires.

I'd love a cheap accessory source for good, in-demand pieces, but at fair prices...  Casting in resins usually doesn't come out to a fair price by most people's standards.   :-\