Outstanding work there Muftak. How big do you plan to have the entire set be? Will it encompass such things as a full detention cell hallway, conference room, and/or the hangar bay? Great use of the CD to add effect for the superlaser control room, but wasn't the chamber parallel to the controllers, or was that in ROTJ? I forget....

What about detailing on the outside, will you add anything like gunner stations or the turrets from the trenches?

This looks to be an amazing project, I'd love to tackle it some day. Keep up the great work!

Happy Customizing!
Jason

again thanks to all of you who have added the welcome since I last posted, well all of you except JJ... JJ get back to casting my heads!  

hey it's my review, woo hoo!  

Overall I still do enjoy the new TIE, sure Hasbro stiffed us on the solar panels, but it was a nice attempt at getting TIE's out there for new people. Can't wait to line up all my TIE's in a staging area type diorama....

Most of the variations we have seen over the years, especially the Saga variations are not intended to be variations, just continued "accurate and efficient" improvements on figures. For instance the Bloody Stump Luke was altered to remove magnet attachment since the Hasbro magnets could be flaky and kids could more easily lose the hand than with a plastic peg that would hold nice and tight. The Boba Fett coloring issue is probably that the original paint scheme seemed to be of a more greenish hue to the Hasbro developers, but they looked back and said no its more bluish, we should make sure that the figure properly represents the outfit and thus the running change there. Now the Jedi Luke, that's gotta be just a big screwup, there should have been no way that it got passed QA without anyone realizing the wrong hand was painted black. You would think that if it the person who sent the sample to QA for approval didn't know which hand was which, that the QA tester would have, as they should have had much sample photography available. Something went wrong in communications and the factories started spitting out screwed up Luke's until finally someone caught on and they made the change there. As for the antennas on Elan, if they could go back and add them for him, how come the Aurra in the Bounty Hunter 4 pack didnt get an antenna, grrrr

Everyone forgot a Rebel on Hoth who got a good chunk of screen time, Wedge's gunner and Rogue Squadron hero, Wes Janson. It would also be certainly nice if we got a Dack Ralter on a single card or as part of some sort of Rebel pilots army builder set. Could you imagine getting say Luke, Wedge, Dack, and even Janson in a 4pack similar to the Stormtrooper set, now that would be sweet!

Nice vintage display case Chris, I've been thinking of doing something like that, but I got most of my vintage mixed into dioramas that I'm not sure I want to remove em all.

I'm down to needing 10 figures (sans variants) from the movie lines. Ok 9, but I think Blue Snaggletooth is sufficiently different from the red figure that it isn't a variant so much as just two figures with the same name. I'm currently in the hunt for Blue Snag, Amanaman, Yak Face, Stormie Luke, Han Carb, Popup Saber R2, A-Wing Pilot, Romba, Lumat, and Imp Gunner. And when I say I'm in the hunt, I mean to say that one day I'll be able to justify spending $40+ for a single figure  

I'd have to agree with JJ and say altering the pose of the 3PO droids legs will be next to impossible, due to the rigid plastic used, without doing some extensive work to the legs. You could try popping the legs out of the pelvis, then using some sculpey (or other modeling clay) work a new hip region for the droid to get a different stance. I'm not sure what else could help you out in this case, though I just came across an idea as I was about to hit the post button.

Perhaps you could pop the legs off and replace them with a more versatile leg like say a GI Joe figure's leg and then use the removable panels from the Ep2 C-3PO and glue em on the Joe legs and just repaint. Not sure how that would look, but it could be a start to something. Good luck!

You've gotten me to sign up to yet ANOTHER forum, hehehe  

Anyways, I'm Jason from FFURG  and been in this whole collecting and customizing thing forever. I hope to get in on some good discussion here and spread the figurative sw love