I’ve been wondering, what’s your collection goal list like man?
Hot Toys The Dark Knight Joker DX/Artisan 1/6 Scale Figure
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rogers985
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Just arrived this morning. Having had the Inart sculpted and sold it, I do prefer this of the two. Main gripe is the lack of hand options, I'd like a few more but what you get is decent. I'll probably need to water treat the coat to get it looking more natural too.
Very happy with it!
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I Wish they included the street as a backdrop. That base im def liking bit more.
hokietwo
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Just got notice from Sideshow DX33AE payment on Dec 25. Don’t think it will ship out then, nor need it that bad. Hope Sideshow lets their shipping elves off for at least the holiday, it can wait. 
batGIRL88
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Sculpt repainted & rooted by Heise
That looks very nice.
intothevoid
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Having managed the orders for Kato, I’ll have to check my records but I’m sure the total number of outfits was a lot less than 100
Probably closer to 50
intothevoid
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Absolutely nailed it
Miles better than InArt. I’ve seen both repainted and Hot Toys is the clear winner.
While that hair is obviously better than the stock sculpted hair I'm impressed by how well the stock paint holds up next to that custom.
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The Heise reroot ruined HT’s for me! lol. Seriously he does such a great job. Lord knows what it costs, but it’s worth every penny.
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Fabric doesn't scale though. You can't just take the fabric they used in the movie and make a 1/6 version of the same shirt. You have to find a fabric that looks similar, but with a much smaller weave. Depending on the article of clothing, the scaled fabric could also have to be a heavier fabric so the piece drapes properly
Exactly this, with the right eye, you can find a match, using screen used materials is asking to fail before the project even begins.
Unfortunate we have to even mention that..
That’s how far removed the custom world is from the rest of the hobby.
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Judging a color from a photograph to the extent that you guys are just isn't possible without having one of these in the picture beside the subject. There are too many variables otherwise. You need a known color value to compare the unknown color to.
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But you've seen it in person, no? As opposed to matching from a photo where we don't know the kinds of lights it's under, whether or not there's mixed lighting, or the camera's white balance (or any post processing that might've occurred after the fact). Either way, being able to color match that way is a great skill and I'm sure it only came with years of experience. Definitely not a skill I possess
There's also an argument to be made that color matching to what we see on screen in the movie might be the way to go. There you get into a bit of a philosophical argument: is the Joker's jacket the color we see in the movie after the color grade has been applied to the footage? Or is it the color of the coat as seen in real life?
Simple, you use reference of him in costume on set, but not under color grading.
This way you get the best of both worlds, no blue color grading, no WB Lot costume museum lighting.
These are the colors I’d implement on a custom run were we to get another finally going.
The coat shouldn’t look like this:
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While it makes sense to color match to what’s onscreen, to get something that looks similar to the naked eye, as opposed to how it looks in the prop shop off screen, it’s nearly impossible since the lighting, and color grading changes so dramatically scene to scene, there would be no single definitive onscreen look. It’s like trying to nail down a definitive hair and makeup, the best you could hope for is a broad average. But even then, people wouldn’t be happy, because an average, by definition, wouldn’t be something seen directly in the film, just an aggregate.
Long story short. It’s impossible to scale down and produce a 100% accurate Joker that will satisfy the majority.
Long story short. It’s impossible to scale down and produce a 100% accurate Joker that will satisfy the majority.
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