1/6 Hot Toys - MMS297 - Star Wars: Episode IV - Luke Skywalker Collectible Figure

[SilverStar17]

Wow, my shipping/processing was moved forward, and it will now be going out tomorrow. Beyond excited.

For this (ANH) Luke, or do you mean for RotJ Luke?

 

[Timemeddler]

The Jnix sculpt is still the winner for me. By no means perfect, but still a damn fine effort!

 

[Timemeddler]

The Bespin one was painted by Jnix himself, and my ANH one by Mark Simpson. As you can see, this sculpt really benefits from a top-class paint-job (Sorry Jnix!!).

 

[Timemeddler]

A couple of better shots. I’m just going to come out and say this: “it looks better in-hand”!!! And it does! It just seems that Jnix sculpts are really hard to photograph well (Han & Obi-Wan suffer from the same curse!). I am personally very happy to now have three of these Luke sculpts in my collection

 

[dukefett]

It looks good but I don't like the open mouth. It looks like he's inhaling to me.

 

[Drawbak]

The Bespin one was painted by Jnix himself, and my ANH one by Mark Simpson. As you can see, this sculpt really benefits from a top-class paint-job (Sorry Jnix!!).

Simpson, eh?
Doesn't ring a bell...

Seriously, paint changes everything sometimes. I really dislike that sculpt usually, but that first pic looks awesome. I hope that's what it looks like IRL.

Get Mark to paint one of those SSC recasts and that might do the trick.

eta: the slack jaw -- that's what he looks like in the movie!

 

[DioramaMaker]

Doesn't matter how good the paint is, it will never change the fact that the Jinx sculpt's XL eyes are far enough apart to have unique zip codes.

 

[Mose Harper]

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I see Richard Lynch

 

[TonTon]

That’s one scary dude.

 

[Timemeddler]

I see Richard Lynch

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Bloody hell! Poor Mark!!!

 

[TaliBane]

In future, please post a Trigger Warning before putting up pics of JNIX Luke. Thank you.

 

[ajp4mgs]

It’s definitely slightly bigger but a bit closer than I expected. Nose jumps out as being a bit more wide on the SS and the 3/4 angle you can see the larger jaw/cheek area, but everything mostly lines up. Shows how egg-headed the Hot Toys sculpt is that it still ends up being taller in the shot on the left.

Get that thing painted already!

I know you meant get it painted by a professional, but I can't justify that kind of expense for an SSC recast unless I know Hamill can really be brought out from it. Sorry to disappoint in that respect, but I did paint it myself. Even with my crappy paint job, I think you can see the potential if a skilled artist would give this a shot. Here's a couple views in trooper gear (since that's the costume the sculpt was originally designed for).



And a couple angled shots in Farmboy costume.



And, finally, some Farmboy shots trying to capture every relevant angle. I think the sculpt has a fairly convincing likeness from profile and angled views, but suffers a lot in the most important view (straight-on). Not what I was hoping for, but not bad.



Again, I apologize that I'm not able to provide a professional paint app on this recast, but hopefully someone else can do that and post pics soon. I still think there's a strong likeness in this sculpt that a pro painter can take advantage of and turn into something way better than what Sideshow did with it.

 

[scottjua]

I know you meant get it painted by a professional, but I can't justify that kind of expense for an SSC recast unless I know Hamill can really be brought out from it. Sorry to disappoint in that respect, but I did paint it myself. Even with my crappy paint job, I think you can see the potential if a skilled artist would give this a shot. Here's a couple views in trooper gear (since that's the costume the sculpt was originally designed for).

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And a couple angled shots in Farmboy costume.

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And, finally, some Farmboy shots trying to capture every relevant angle. I think the sculpt has a fairly convincing likeness from profile and angled views, but suffers a lot in the most important view (straight-on). Not what I was hoping for, but not bad.

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Again, I apologize that I'm not able to provide a professional paint app on this recast, but hopefully someone else can do that and post pics soon. I still think there's a strong likeness in this sculpt that a pro painter can take advantage of and turn into something way better than what Sideshow did with it.

I think this is the best sculpt we have so far.

 

[TonTon]

Great paint up. No need to apologize. If I did one myself it would look like I used crayons

 

[momaw]

I think this is the best sculpt we have so far.

 

[Darth_IMPoor]

Agree with TonTon, that's a darn good paint app. If that hair was sculpted a little more detailed originally, I think a lot of folks would be using it.

 

[SilverStar17]

I think this is the best sculpt we have so far.

Gotta disagree with that and still reluctantly give that spot to the HT sculpt.

 

[TonTon]

It’s really slim pickings. Best sculpt would maybe (maybe!) be SS X-Wing Luke. But it’s hard to tell with that tree trunk of a hair piece and subpar paint job. Hot toys has the best paint job obviously. But I just can’t believe that’s the best sculpt we have (but I did like it under the X-Wing helmet). Would love to see a top painter paint that X-Wing Luke up to see if it’s any good.

 

[davejames]

I know you meant get it painted by a professional, but I can't justify that kind of expense for an SSC recast unless I know Hamill can really be brought out from it. Sorry to disappoint in that respect, but I did paint it myself. Even with my crappy paint job, I think you can see the potential if a skilled artist would give this a shot. Here's a couple views in trooper gear (since that's the costume the sculpt was originally designed for).

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Really nice work there! The head especially looks good in these first two shots. I got an original of that head and considered using it for my ANH Luke, but ultimately it just seemed a bit too large and lacking in detail next to my other SW figures. Although the proportions look pretty good on your ANH figure, so the recast must have been quite a bit smaller.

 

[SilverStar17]

Put Superman S curl hair on that sculpt, and I personally think it’s more of a match to a Superman IV era Christopher Reeve than Mark Hamill.