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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Yavin Hangar diorama
« on: August 27, 2009, 01:57 AM »
Just finished my latest!  Hope you like the pics!




















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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Cloud City diorama
« on: August 27, 2009, 01:54 AM »
Thanks Ryan!  Sorry about the delayed response; I haven't been over here in a couple weeks.  This dio was probably an hour every few days for a month and a half or so.

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The Legacy Collection / Re: Legacy Wave 9 - Return of the Jedi
« on: August 14, 2009, 01:07 AM »
I have no problems with the likeness, but those arms, wow... I'd be afraid of her in a dark alley!  In this case (and perhaps in any bare arms character) I would have rathered swivel-cut elbows and swivel shoulders.

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  So it might be on under the helmet, but like Anton said, you never see just the skull cap.

Yeah, it's just a case of different filming times and editing.  He has it on when he's in the Snowspeeder; see here:


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The Legacy Collection / Re: Target SotE TIE Fighter (new cockpit)
« on: August 6, 2009, 10:53 AM »
Absolutely- I didn't officially measure the old mold, but at first glance it looks like a 2-to-1 ratio!

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The Legacy Collection / Re: Target SotE TIE Fighter (new cockpit)
« on: August 5, 2009, 08:05 PM »
The big wing TIE, despite being a vast improvement over the old mold, still bothers me due to the apparent oversizing of the wings (as opposed to the old undersizing!).  It was hard to definitively decide if they were too big, so I screencaptured a couple TIEs from ANH, and measured the wing proportion to the cockpit.  I did the same thing with the big wing toy.  Turns out that the film model has an EXACT 3 to 1 ratio of wing height to cockpit height, while the toy has just over a 4 to 1 ratio.  I KNEW the wings were too big!




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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Daigo-Bah's Customs (7/26)
« on: August 4, 2009, 04:11 PM »
I had bought 2 of the TLC Beru figures with the intent of customizing both Jenny and Swilla.  I made Jenny with a ROTLA Marion head, but I couldn't find a good head for the Swilla version.  I was originally going to use a GI Joe Scarlett head, but I thought it was too pretty.  Interestingly, the Beru face sculpt was pretty good, as long as the hair looked right.  So I ended up sculpting the hair from super sculpy.  Everything was painted and drybrushed (even some eye shadow!).  Here are various pics, including in my cantina diorama and some screen shots as well.
















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Its definitely the type of figure that my Wife won't understand why I'm buying, but I will anyway. 

I think I know what you mean, but I have to admit that's an odd statement, no?  A wife "shouldn't" understand an adult man buying any kind of figure for himself!  That doesn't stop ME, though  ;)

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The Legacy Collection / Re: 2009 Hasbro Star Wars Fans' Choice
« on: July 31, 2009, 03:01 PM »
OMG, too easy for me:

Uncle Owen ANH resculpt

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The Legacy Collection / Re: Funeral Pyre Vader w/ Luke
« on: July 30, 2009, 12:50 PM »
I collect 100% OT, and am usually thrilled for anything OT, but I have to admit I could take this or not.  I've never been a big fan of flame or blast effects.  I guess if it came to a vote, I'd not participate.

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The Legacy Collection / Re: Legacy Wave 9 - Return of the Jedi
« on: July 30, 2009, 01:31 AM »
I like the shoulders only because every image of Luke I've seen has him pretty broad shouldered looking due to the outfit's snugness. 


I have to respectfully disagree with ya, JJ- I thought he was quite narrow-shouldered throughout.  I like this concept figure drawing Cramer from RS doodled based on a film image:


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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Daigo-Bah's Customs (7/26)
« on: July 26, 2009, 10:08 PM »
I bought an extra Beru figure to customize Jenny from the cantina, using ROTLA Marion's head, a repaint of the outfit, and a few x-acto blade cuts here and there (shortened skirt, removed inner sleeve and tunic, etc).  Here are a couple pics including a screen shot:








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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Daigo-Bah's Customs (7/26)
« on: July 26, 2009, 10:02 PM »
This was a longer and more methodical custom repaint than I thought it would be!  Many of you probably knew that the recent WED droid that came with the Jawa (I nominate the pack as figure of the year!) was not correctly colored for the ANH scene.  The dark grey paintjob was more representative of its appearance in the Echo base hangar, while the ANH droid sale version was white.  Hasbro recently stated in a Q and A that they would consider a re-color for future releases, but I thought I'd do my own since I had an extra.  Everything repainted was done so by using spraypaint cans as opposed to brush painting.  I taped off appropriate areas and sprayed to get a nice even production quality color.  The real difficulty was in separating the arm pieces to have both chrome and white components.  Every exposed "metal" portion was lightly sprayed with chrome for a bit more shine.  I had to x-acto cut the arms into several pieces to be able to paint correctly!  Anyway, here are several pics including a film capture and a couple in my droid sale diorama.

 












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The Legacy Collection / Re: Walmart Dewback w/Sandtrooper
« on: July 25, 2009, 05:30 PM »
It is a beautifully sculpted beast, but a little less accurate to the dinosaur-like original film prop than I'd like.  It appears more lizard-like and less dinosaur in appearance, I think.  I feel the head of the POTF2 version is MUCH closer to the film appearance, but you just can't argue the sculpt of the skin...

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The Legacy Collection / Re: Walmart Legacy Collection AT-ST
« on: July 25, 2009, 05:25 PM »
Thanks for the comparison pics, JJ.  That may have solidified my decision on whether to get one to accompany the update I made.  If you don't mind, I'm going to post your ref pic with mine to compare paintjobs:


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