Hot Toys DX46: Terminator 2: Judgment Day - T-800 (Battle Damaged Version 2.0)

BadMuthaDude said:

Out of curiosity, I just had to do an edit of one the recent pics:

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I've borrowed your handy mod if you don't mind, BMD.

At the risk of annoying people who I know are pretty happy with this figure as is, this is how I propose the clean and semi-BD sculpts more ought to look



To clarify in case I otherwise cause confusion - Hot Toys haven't yet shown nor indicated that they intend to show a clean, non-battle-damaged sculpt - the 'clean' sculpt here is BadMuthaDude's photoshop and I made changes of my own over it.

Just saw this and d@mn this looks pretty good for 1/6. Never owned a hot toy and tempted by this. Going to think long and hard, as I've never collected at this scale.

Any chance they can dial down the blood effects on the exposed endo knee and severed arm? BD effect would look better with a bit less blood and bit more metal.

a-dev said:

I've borrowed your handy mod if you don't mind, BMD.

At the risk of annoying people who I know are pretty happy with this figure as is, this is how I propose the clean and semi-BD sculpts more ought to look

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To clarify in case I otherwise cause confusion - Hot Toys haven't yet shown nor indicated that they intend to show a clean, non-battle-damaged sculpt - the 'clean' sculpt here is BadMuthaDude's photoshop and I made changes of my own over it.

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Amazing work there man.

@a-dev you should definitely send that to HT. Worth a shot!

Dundee said:

Just saw this and d@mn this looks pretty good for 1/6. Never owned a hot toy and tempted by this. Going to think long and hard, as I've never collected at this scale.

Any chance they can dial down the blood effects on the exposed endo knee and severed arm? BD effect would look better with a bit less blood and bit more metal.

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Agreed, but I doubt it. This is how HT seems to think it should look, gory and blood-drenched. They did the same with the DX13.

Cap'n Cook said:

@a-dev you should definitely send that to HT. Worth a shot!

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Thanks Cap'n. Hasn't got much reaction here yet* so I'm half-thinking people must think I'm wrong. Or they're sick of this same routine everytime - someone breaking out the arrows and the red circles and so on. I get it. But I just can't help it when it comes to an Arnie T-800.

I like the center face - the eyes look amazing if the production figures can come out close to that - but as usual they've gotten the shape of his face wrong, the hairline wrong and the outer silhouette of the hair - despite improved sculpted spiking - is still too tight, neat and rounded. Those are the things I've changed.
It's possible I'm not bang-on either - when you're not working in 3D it's hard to be sure of the hairline on the sides - and it's possible I've got the hair a bit too tall in places. But overall I think these alterations significantly improve it. Now, for me, it just involved redrawing the hair and pretty much making the hair be the thing that narrows the face. When Rotfish did his correction back on page 12 he also narrowed the face across the brow and cheekbones and brought the ears in tighter. Here I was trying to see how much improvement I could bring without doing anything to the brow and cheekbones and ear position knowing that Hot Toys would probably want the least amount of work possible. But I don't know, maybe what I've done would not actually be any less work in practice on a 3D sculpt. And maybe Rotfish's additional narrowing of brow, cheekbones and ears really would be necessary too.

Anyway, as the figure stands I'm buying one but one only. I'm a sucker, I can't miss out on a new T1 or T2 release. But it isn't worth replacing my various DX13s with. Just not enough of an improvement, indeed it repeats with exactitude the most obvious flaws of DX13.

* ah, it got a few more likes while I was typing this.

a-dev said:

Agreed, but I doubt it. This is how HT seems to think it should look, gory and blood-drenched. They did the same with the DX13.



Thanks Cap'n. Hasn't got much reaction here yet so I'm half-thinking people must think I'm wrong. Or they're sick of this same routine everytime - someone breaking out the arrows and the red circles and so on. I get it. But I just can't help it when it comes to an Arnie T-800.

I like the center face - the eyes look amazing if the production figures can come out close to that - but as usual they've gotten the shape of his face wrong, the hairline wrong and the outer silhouette of the hair - despite improved sculpted spiking - is still too tight, neat and rounded. Those are the things I've changed.
It's possible I'm not bang-on either - when you're not working in 3D it's hard to be sure of the hairline on the sides - and it's possible I've got the hair a bit too tall in places. But overall I think these alterations significantly improve it. Now, for me, it just involved redrawing the hair and pretty much making the hair be the thing that narrows the face. When Rotfish did his correction back on page 12 he also narrowed the face across the brow and cheekbones and brought the ears in tighter. Here I was trying to see how much improvement I could bring without doing anything to the brow and cheekbones and ear position knowing that Hot Toys would probably want the least amount of work possible. But I don't know, maybe what I've done would not actually be any less work in practice on a 3D sculpt. And maybe Rotfish's additional narrowing of brow, cheekbones and ears really would be necessary too.

Anyway, as the figure stands I'm buying one but one only. I'm a sucker, I can't miss out on a new T1 or T2 release. But it isn't worth replacing my various DX13s with. Just not enough of an improvement, indeed it repeats what are to me the most obvious flaws of DX13 verbatim.

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Oi can’t trust ‘people’ mate.

Your edit is BANG on.

Cap'n Cook said:

Oi can’t trust ‘people’ mate.

Your edit is BANG on.

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Hey Dude,
Can you check your DM please?
Thanks!

This one is still bugging me. Do I get one, even though I have the DX13 and it looks fine (no flakes etc). Is this worth getting to put alongside the DX13 and swap the sculpt etc? aargh.

Will probably bite from Kit, in the end.

a-dev said:

I've borrowed your handy mod if you don't mind, BMD.

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Dang it, I knew I should've plastered watermarks all over my masterpiece!

Cap'n Cook said:

@a-dev you should definitely send that to HT. Worth a shot!

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I contacted them about the battle damaged hands when the DX13 promo pics were released. No reply. And now they're reusing the same hands. They seem to not be aware that the left hand and forearm were stripped of flesh before he got all banged up.

BadMuthaDude said:

I contacted them about the battle damaged hands when the DX13 promo pics were released. No reply. And now they're reusing the same hands. They seem to not be aware that the left hand and forearm were stripped of flesh before he go all banged up.

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That's a really good point! He'd already stripped off the flesh at the Dyson residence.

They also reused the same undersized grenades in his bandolier. These are the details that bother me when they make a 2.0, but don't fix anything other than the sculpt.

agonistes86 said:

They also reused the same undersized grenades in his bandolier. These are the details that bother me when they make a 2.0, but don't fix anything other than the sculpt.

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Right, cause the prop grenades in the movie were oversized if I recall correctly.

BadMuthaDude said:

I contacted them about the battle damaged hands when the DX13 promo pics were released. No reply. And now they're reusing the same hands. They seem to not be aware that the left hand and forearm were stripped of flesh before he got all banged up.

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That always bothered me about the dx13 for that point alone.

It looks good, but i don't understand why can't they just use nylon to imitate leather on their figures? I know they used real leather for this release but even real leather ages and flakes.

Found some old pictures on my DX10

Dundee said:

Just saw this and d@mn this looks pretty good for 1/6. Never owned a hot toy and tempted by this. Going to think long and hard, as I've never collected at this scale.

Any chance they can dial down the blood effects on the exposed endo knee and severed arm? BD effect would look better with a bit less blood and bit more metal.

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You should def order one, you deserve it.

Preordered


here's what i had about 9 years ago.

@4:30 i show collection

Haven’t really been following the thread much since the announcement but I’m still “salty” Hot Toys didn’t do a T1 Terminator figure, given it’s the 40th anniversary and all.. Would’ve loved to see a clean Police Station Shootout version. If HT doesn’t do it, I’d kill for INART to do it since they allegedly secured the T1 license.

Also, as much as I love T2, for some reason I don’t care much for the battle-damaged looks. I would’ve rather the clean Galleria look with the bike or a clean Cyberdyne Shootout look. Or the Future War Endo with dual plasma rifles of course. Looks like I’m still gonna be on stand by for my first Terminator figure.