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

[Jaymas]

HT produces some very nice work and some mediocre work. Overall they're the top 1/6 factory producer, the high end of high volume mass-produced 1/6. But not the highest end of 1/6. That goes to the custom artists in spades.

and that likely puts the highest end of the 1/6 world out of the reach of a lot of us. Still cool to appreciate that stuff from afar.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

Kind of a fallacious argument that. Anything done poorly sucks.

Here's something that doesn't suck. Anyone who says the paint or the hair "suck" can feel free to make an appointment with a shrink.

I can practically see him scuffling down a deserted highway, Judith in tow.

 

[Travis Baumann]

I can practically see him scuffling down a deserted highway, Judith in tow.

Or hacking a bunch of guys to pieces in a church with a machete.

 

[The Green Goblin]

That Rick looks amazing.

 

[QuiGonFishing]

I'm wondering if there is something about this sculpt that just doesn't work when painted. It looks so perfect like this, so much like Hamill, but I have never seen it painted (even really well) and felt the same way. I think all the features and proportions are spot on but it lacks important "detail" to look life like painted regardless of how good the paint job is. "Detail" may not be the best word for what I mean though. Its just seeing it all grey it looks like the perfect sculpture of Hamill but when it's painted it doesn't look like a person but looks like a painted sculpture and so the paint always takes away from the beauty of it. I don't know enough about the craft of scuplting such things to know why this may be, but perhaps there is more to a lifelike head sculpt that Hot Toys often accomplishes than just the paint, perhaps the WAY it is sculpted matters too; a way that even if they can't get the likeness quite right as a sculpt it better conveys "life" when combined with good paint.

No..?

I'm the first to admit that the detail is a bit soft (particularly the hair), but I was always pleased with this one...
I think the only thing that ever held back this sculpt was (as usual) the crappy SS paint. My dream is for Hot Toys to buy Trevor a small village of his very own (Grovetown) a mile or so from HT headquarters and pay him in rubies and geisha girls until he's 106... It's a small dream, but it's mine.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

That Rick looks amazing.

I can't wait to see ThreeZero's. Actually, that's pretty much all we've been doing.

 

[The Green Goblin]

I can't wait to see ThreeZero's. Actually, that's pretty much all we've been doing.

Didn't they only release Michonne's walkers and then put the line in a coma?

 

[highlander1]

Very cool i know hot toys is hiding trooper han and the droids from us then yoda n Emperor n new throne , jedi luke would be perfect after this group of release's.

 

[cmiller99]

Didn't they only release Michonne's walkers and then put the line in a coma?

Yup

 

[Jaymas]

I'm wondering if there is something about this sculpt that just doesn't work when painted. It looks so perfect like this, so much like Hamill, but I have never seen it painted (even really well) and felt the same way. I think all the features and proportions are spot on but it lacks important "detail" to look life like painted regardless of how good the paint job is. "Detail" may not be the best word for what I mean though. Its just seeing it all grey it looks like the perfect sculpture of Hamill but when it's painted it doesn't look like a person but looks like a painted sculpture and so the paint always takes away from the beauty of it. I don't know enough about the craft of scuplting such things to know why this may be, but perhaps there is more to a lifelike head sculpt that Hot Toys often accomplishes than just the paint, perhaps the WAY it is sculpted matters too; a way that even if they can't get the likeness quite right as a sculpt it better conveys "life" when combined with good paint.

No..?

I'm the first to admit that the detail is a bit soft (particularly the hair), but I was always pleased with this one...
I think the only thing that ever held back this sculpt was (as usual) the crappy SS paint. My dream is for Hot Toys to buy Trevor a small village of his very own (Grovetown) a mile or so from HT headquarters and pay him in rubies and geisha girls until he's 106... It's a small dream, but it's mine.

No. While the repaint obviously looks a lot better than Sideshow's paint, I still think the unpainted one looks best in terms of looking like Hamill, perhaps as a gray sculpt it doesn't have to look "lifelike" and can just look like a sculpture. As a sculpture this Sideshow head really captures Hamill in an amazing way, but when painted, even really really well, it just doesn't look as lifelike as Hot Toys. Again, separating out the issue of "likeness" there is also the issue of what makes a sculpt "lifelike" and I think we almost always assume that this is only an issue of paint. Paint has a lot to do with it but I suspect that the way it is sculpted may also have a lot to do with how "lifelike" a sculpt is too, not in terms of the details that makes it look like the person they are trying to sculpt but the details which makes it look more like a life like person.

I'm not hating on the sideshow sculpt, at the time I liked it so much I bought two of these and used the head of one for my ceremonial Luke. But it looks like I am going to have to pick up two Hot Toys Lukes for this same reason; though I am watching for the sideshow pilot Luke in case it surprises and sideshow can take it to a new level.

oh, and I am sure Trevor would appreciate your dream for him, he does great work.

 

[Pixelpiper]

It's a "statue" -like neutral facial expression, that's the main thing that reduced the life-like vibe, just like on many ancient statues that have otherwise amazing details.

BTW, back to reference HT... At the time (2007) HT's factory paint was just as bad as Sideshow's. They improved a bit in 2008 but it wasn't until 2009 where the differences were significantly noticeable, IMO.

 

[reuters]

Some higher resolution pics.

 

[AIR]

It's probably been pointed out, but that's his ESB lightsaber.

 

[Jaymas]

Some higher resolution pics.

This one ^ and the one you posted in the Stormtrooper thread looks the most like Hamill to me.

BTW, back to reference HT... At the time (2007) HT's factory paint was just as bad as Sideshow's. They improved a bit in 2008 but it wasn't until 2009 where the differences were significantly noticeable, IMO.

It's cool to see the progress

It's probably been pointed out, but that's his ESB lightsaber.

yea, I am so hoping that this was just for the protypes and the production pieces will have the right saber.

 

[drjedisith]

man that dome! reminds me of the asmus aragorn problem. too much on top. i will be customizing that egg

 

[Pixelpiper]

It's cool to see the progress

And even in 2009 they produced figures where I wouldn't say the paint was better than Sideshow's in 2007 - Tony Stark's sculpt on Iron Man MK3 Exclusive, etc.

 

[WWEJedi]

Stormtrooper sculpt is better in my opinion. Might get both and swap the heads.

 

[TaliBane]

Stormtrooper sculpt is better in my opinion. Might get both and swap the heads.

They're not the same sculpt with slightly different paint? I haven't been paying too much attention.

 

[WWEJedi]

They're not the same sculpt with slightly different paint? I haven't been paying too much attention.

Poor choice of words on my part, yes, I think they are the same sculpt, no? Paint just looks better on Stormy Luke than Farmer Luke to me.

 

[Jaymas]

Poor choice of words on my part, yes, I think they are the same sculpt, no? Paint just looks better on Stormy Luke than Farmer Luke to me.

I'm not sure I can tell the difference between the paint without seeing them side by side under the same lighting conditions.