Hi fellow members, haven't been posting in here for ages,
New glass display cabinet with a mix of 1/10 and 1/7 scale Kotobukiya figures, Gentle Giant Darth Sidious, lighted Kotobukiya chop sticks, Fine Molds 1/72 Millennium Falcon, Tantive IV Rebel Blockade Runner, the red lighted tube on the left side of the display cabinet is my custom black Darth Maul heavy graded lightsaber.
TESB 1/7 scale Kotobukiya Boba Fett (repaired Range Finder Antenna on helmet)
1/10 scale Gentle Giant statues of Malgus & The Inquisitor, assorted Disney figures, 1/6 scale Hasbro Jar Jar Binks and Darth Vader / Anakin Skywalker figure with light up Saber and vocal features... 40th Anniversary carded figures... Countdown supermarket Star Wars buttons collection
Star Wars Unleashed figures, Padme, Slave Leia, Sidious, Asajj, Aurra Sing, Signature Series Force FX Anakin Skywalker Lightsaber... DC figures
1/7 scale Gentle Giant Darth Maul, Kotobukiya 1/10 scale Darth Vader statue, Sideshow Collectables Premium Format 1/6 scaleMalgus... Kyberforge Custom Dark Saber
To be unboxed...
Sideshow 1/6 scale, Lords of the Sith Darth Vader, Asajj Ventress, Darth Maul, Hot Toys 1/6 scale Kylo Ren, Sideshow 1/6 scale Order of The Jedi Anakin Skywalker (to be modified), Sideshow 1/6 scale X-Wing pilot Luke Skywalker, 1/6 scale Sideshow Obiwan Kenobi, Sideshow 1/6 Dagobah Yoda, 1/10 scale Kotobukiya ready pose Darth Vader
My second Kotobukiya 1/7 scale Boba Fett to be modified to look like the ROTJ version... Kenner B-Wing
These Death Star Turrets are awesome
Doing mod work on some of my figures.
Asajj Ventress... Upon looking at this figure I noticed there could be some improvements done on it around the midsection, so I purchased a couple of female figure bodies to a swap over and trial, personally, the Sideshow Collectables body (her waste noticeably) just looked too skinny.
Even with the Hot Toys figure's around the legs especially, they just look too short in proportion with their top halves... Hot Toys do make some awesome head sculpts though but with that being said, Sideshow and Hot Toys figures both have their good and bad points.
Asajj Ventress 1/6 Sideshow figure
Here she is next to the JXtoys JX-02A 1/6 Big Bust Suntan body
... and next to the TBLeague Phicen 1/6 Scale Female Muscle PALE Medium Bust S22A figure
Leia & Luke... Head sculpts on these Sideshow's are a bit below the average detail for my tastes so I bought some custom head sculpts
Custom Leia & Luke head sculpts
Doing the same with Sideshow 1/6 scale Obiwan and my second Sideshow 1/6 scale Anakin... I have my first Sideshow Anakin on display already in it's original state
1/6 scale Sideshow Obiwan with original Sideshow head sculpt
Custom Obiwan head sculpt
Custom Anakin Sith head sculpt
First Sideshow 1/6 scale Anakin with original Sideshow head sculpt displayed
1/6 scale Sideshow Vader... I'm going to completely strip him down and mod a few things starting with a Sideshow -> Hot Toys head swap.
I think the Sideshow helmet is a bit too small, the Kaiyodo head / helmet sculpt is by far the best looking and most screen accurate even being an old kit but rare, so with this mod, I'll be using the Hot Toys version.
First mod is lowering his helmet a few millimeters because it sits a little too high for my liking, I'll have to somehow break apart the helmet from the mask.
I'll also set the nose plug deeper inside his mask because it pokes out too far above the mouth grill, I'll then do a Sideshow Hot Toys body suit swap including a new custom cape and inner tunic set from Iforigno
Hot Toys body suit
Custom Iforigno Cape
Custom Iforigno Tunic
Comparison... original Sideshow on the left... custom Iforigno on the right
Other bits n pieces...
1/6 scale Mouse Droid
1/6 scale Helmet Display and lighted stand
Bits n pieces
Cheers
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Wow
That's some collection man!
Thanks for sharing
That's some collection man!
Thanks for sharing
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Agreed. Great photos to wander through I particularly like your little turret collection, and those custom Luke and Leia heads.
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Been modding a couple of 1/6 Sideshow figures, you may have seen my posts up on Facebook, but here are some more in depth photos of what I did on my SSC Darth Vader.
I managed to grab some Hot Toys spare parts off of eBay for I was looking at swapping a few things over or modding them.
I cringed at the size of the Sideshows helmet dome for it always bugged me that it looked out of scale and too small. My first mod was to break open into three pieces the Hot Toys replacement helmet, it looked a little too high above the brow, I then used my dremel to grind away the inner mounting tabs to lower the dome a few centimeters. While I had the helmet in pieces, I then added some chrome sheet to the inside of the lenses to help enhance their reddish color so they were more noticeable at certain angles and different light. One side of the the chrome sheet has adhesive and this side was to be used on the inside of each lens, using a soft cotton bud, I molded the sheet into the shape of each eye socket.
Next mod was to completely strip down and dismantle the upper torso to change out the neck pin. The Sideshows one was too small to plug into the Hot Toys socket, the pin was secured tightly so I applied my heat gun to the neck piece to help soften the area and pop it out with ease, however, the replacement neck pin, the ball end that sits into the neck and shoulders part was a tad too big so I ground it down a few centimeters so that it would pop right into position.
... to be continued...
I managed to grab some Hot Toys spare parts off of eBay for I was looking at swapping a few things over or modding them.
I cringed at the size of the Sideshows helmet dome for it always bugged me that it looked out of scale and too small. My first mod was to break open into three pieces the Hot Toys replacement helmet, it looked a little too high above the brow, I then used my dremel to grind away the inner mounting tabs to lower the dome a few centimeters. While I had the helmet in pieces, I then added some chrome sheet to the inside of the lenses to help enhance their reddish color so they were more noticeable at certain angles and different light. One side of the the chrome sheet has adhesive and this side was to be used on the inside of each lens, using a soft cotton bud, I molded the sheet into the shape of each eye socket.
Next mod was to completely strip down and dismantle the upper torso to change out the neck pin. The Sideshows one was too small to plug into the Hot Toys socket, the pin was secured tightly so I applied my heat gun to the neck piece to help soften the area and pop it out with ease, however, the replacement neck pin, the ball end that sits into the neck and shoulders part was a tad too big so I ground it down a few centimeters so that it would pop right into position.
... to be continued...
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Next task was to trim up the Hot Toys two piece body suit, the Sideshows one piece body suit looks a bit flat to me so I opted to swap it out for the Hot Toys which looked fuller and more patterned.
... more to come...
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Redress the figure in it's new suit... the Hot toys suit looks good and because of the material's thickness, it also hides a lot of the ball joints that were noticeable through the thinner Sideshows suit.
Here's a pic of the Vader figure with mods
... more to come...
Here's a pic of the Vader figure with mods
... more to come...
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There's some noticeable differences between the Vader masks and domes, so I decided to mod the Sideshows version as well, breaking it open and also lowering the helmet a few centimeters the same as the Hot Toys mod, in comparison, the size between each helmet can be clearly seen.
Hot Toys on the left, Sideshows on the right. Sideshows. Hot Toys. I wasn't done modding though, I tried a complete helmet swap, Hot Toys dome on the Sideshows head mask which looks pretty convincing and doesn't look too bad... here's the comparison.
Hot Toys mask and helmet Sideshows mask Hot Toys helmet.
Hot Toys on the left, Sideshows on the right. Sideshows. Hot Toys. I wasn't done modding though, I tried a complete helmet swap, Hot Toys dome on the Sideshows head mask which looks pretty convincing and doesn't look too bad... here's the comparison.
Hot Toys mask and helmet Sideshows mask Hot Toys helmet.
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Started another mod, I converted my Jedi Order Anakin to a Sith version.
Firstly, I completely stripped him down and and made a few adjustments to the joints... some were jammed tight so I loosened them a tiny bit for ease of posing. I then redressed him in a black outfit of which I used Rit liquid dye to darken a couple of pieces of his clothing, his outer tunic, tabards and sash which had faded.
I had a spare couple of cotton tabards so I used one as an inner tunic but only wrapping it around him like a scarf then used some black duct tape to secure it to his back... I chose to do this to eliminate the bulkiness in the upper torso, chest and shoulders which was noticeable when dressed in his original set, he just looked too puffy with the full gear on.
Added the outer tunic...
then the inner tabards...
I replaced the original pleather tabards for they also made him puffy like and just looked too shiny, I used some thin satin like leather ribbon about 10 centimeters in width, the same width as the inner tabards which I thought looked liked the perfect replacement once dressed and at this point, I also added the sash.
... to be continued...
Firstly, I completely stripped him down and and made a few adjustments to the joints... some were jammed tight so I loosened them a tiny bit for ease of posing. I then redressed him in a black outfit of which I used Rit liquid dye to darken a couple of pieces of his clothing, his outer tunic, tabards and sash which had faded.
I had a spare couple of cotton tabards so I used one as an inner tunic but only wrapping it around him like a scarf then used some black duct tape to secure it to his back... I chose to do this to eliminate the bulkiness in the upper torso, chest and shoulders which was noticeable when dressed in his original set, he just looked too puffy with the full gear on.
Added the outer tunic...
then the inner tabards...
I replaced the original pleather tabards for they also made him puffy like and just looked too shiny, I used some thin satin like leather ribbon about 10 centimeters in width, the same width as the inner tabards which I thought looked liked the perfect replacement once dressed and at this point, I also added the sash.
... to be continued...
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And finally, his belt to complete.
Added to the lineup...
Cheers
Added to the lineup...
Cheers
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Started the repaint on my 1/6 Sideshow Anakin head sculpt.
The head although already a custom one was still not up to my standards so I thought to completely repaint the face.
I started off using thinner to clean the head sculpt of any foreign oils and gunk then applied the use of Mungyo pastels with water to mix instead of the traditional enamels/acrylic paints and thinners.
I added some detail, melted some thin plastic rod to create random strands of loose hair and used a thin cement to attach to the head sculpt.
I found the pastel blended smoothly between layers and was very easy to achieve the tones I wanted, the only thing was, I had to apply multiple thin layers to build up a solid base.
I did however use a minimal amount of acrylic paint (a small drop) mixed with pastel for sharp details.
... more to come...
The head although already a custom one was still not up to my standards so I thought to completely repaint the face.
I started off using thinner to clean the head sculpt of any foreign oils and gunk then applied the use of Mungyo pastels with water to mix instead of the traditional enamels/acrylic paints and thinners.
I added some detail, melted some thin plastic rod to create random strands of loose hair and used a thin cement to attach to the head sculpt.
I found the pastel blended smoothly between layers and was very easy to achieve the tones I wanted, the only thing was, I had to apply multiple thin layers to build up a solid base.
I did however use a minimal amount of acrylic paint (a small drop) mixed with pastel for sharp details.
... more to come...