Hot Toys - MMS 719, MMS 720, MMS 721, MMS 722 - A New Hope: Sandtrooper Sergeant and Dewback 1/6 Scale Collectible Figure

[slynger]

For those with the trooper all paid up, did you get shipping notices from SS? My last payment hit on the 5th and it’s still “processing.”

 

[THE dAY]

Found just the figure on the cheap, he came without the pauldron so used stormtrooper commander's orange pauldron on him. He looks great, love the weathering, done really well!

 

[Chainedstream]

Amazing picture @THE dAY ! Great use of the commander's pauldorn. Looks exactly how I'd imagine a 2.0 of 295.

 

[THE dAY]

Amazing picture @THE dAY ! Great use of the commander's pauldorn. Looks exactly how I'd imagine a 2.0 of 295.

Thanks man, it fits him perfectly but needed a little weathering to match.
Here's a before and after:

 

[Felinx]

In the closer shots you wish HT would have done actual cut-out gaps/voids between the teeth rather than just black paint in recesses, or at least not allow the weathering to turn the black of those "cut-out gaps" into a dark grey (thereby no longer reading as voids.)

I've often tried to think of a way to cut into the HT sandie sculpt to fix the sculpt inaccuracies but its the equivalent of high-risk microsurgery where you can lose the patient with a cut that goes 0.5mm too far.

 

[ZE_501]

I've often tried to think of a way to cut into the HT sandie sculpt to fix the sculpt inaccuracies but its the equivalent of high-risk microsurgery where you can lose the patient with a cut that goes 0.5mm too far.

I own jeweller's tools and it's not worth the effort, never mind the risk. If I had to fix one of these helmets, I'd just completely cut out the offending parts and rebuild with 3D-printed and/or hand-modeled parts, similar to @agonistes86 's excellent work on the 1/4 Vader, but given the state of Hot Toys stormie helmets at that point you might consider just replacing the whole thing.

 

[Felinx]

Yeah a 1/6 stormtrooper helmet is one of those ones that fans can like even though if you really know what you're looking at, it's way off in a half dozen different ways.

I tried to fix the HT orange pauldron version's bucket just with paint (e.g. "moving" the teeth slightly higher and doing a hairline of black between "ears" and helmet) and also carving out the goggle lenses with a scalpel to be a bit bigger but it was a middling result overall.

I had a bit more success with the HT ANH bucket which I repurposed to be with my ESB/ROTJ hybrid trooper (seen only in a couple of freeze chamber shots and in ESB promo pics with Carrie Fisher.) I got that one more than 3/4 of the way to feeling accurate to my eye.

 

[HyperDrive]

I had a bit more success with the HT ANH bucket which I repurposed to be with my ESB/ROTJ hybrid trooper (seen only in a couple of freeze chamber shots and in ESB promo pics with Carrie Fisher.) I got that one more than 3/4 of the way to feeling accurate to my eye.

Oooh. Do you have pics of it? I have a ESB only display for OT, and I was thinking of modifying the MMS268 ANH Stormtrooper.

 

[Felinx]

Oooh. Do you have pics of it? I have a ESB only display for OT, and I was thinking of modifying the MMS268 ANH Stormtrooper.

This stormie (briefly seen in ESB) has a mix of newer (at the time) ROTJ armor parts and original ANH/ESB, so it has the distinctive ROTJ chest armor. I think he's the one who Chewie throws off the carbon freeze deck.

This trooper is a bit like the unique "Muppet Show blaster" Luke uses in just a couple of shots during Dagobah arrival and nowhere else, or the ANH-style Vader helmet used in the single shot of ESB in Hoth base arrival.

This helmet was just being wasted in my Luke stormie's hands (because I really didn't like it) so I thought I'd try to salvage it.

 

[agonistes86]

This stormie (briefly seen in ESB) has a mix of newer (at the time) ROTJ armor parts and original ANH/ESB, so it has the distinctive ROTJ chest armor. I think he's the one who Chewie throws off the carbon freeze deck.

This trooper is a bit like the unique "Muppet Show blaster" Luke uses in just a couple of shots during Dagobah arrival and nowhere else, or the ANH-style Vader helmet used in the single shot of ESB in Hoth base arrival.

This helmet was just being wasted in my Luke stormie's hands (because I really didn't like it) so I thought I'd try to salvage it.

I honestly thought for a second that this was a lifesize suit, maybe on display at some show. Your futzing makes it look incredibly realistic!

 

[HyperDrive]

This stormie (briefly seen in ESB) has a mix of newer (at the time) ROTJ armor parts and original ANH/ESB, so it has the distinctive ROTJ chest armor. I think he's the one who Chewie throws off the carbon freeze deck.

This trooper is a bit like the unique "Muppet Show blaster" Luke uses in just a couple of shots during Dagobah arrival and nowhere else, or the ANH-style Vader helmet used in the single shot of ESB in Hoth base arrival.

This helmet was just being wasted in my Luke stormie's hands (because I really didn't like it) so I thought I'd try to salvage it.

You learn something new everyday! I didn’t know the ESB troops were wearing the ROTJ chest armor piece.

Looks amazing and lifelike.

I’ll look into modding a couple of the 2-pack ANH stormtrooper figures to this!