1/6 SSC ESB/ROTJ Darth Vader Modification Thread

[Sturtrup]

That looks like the old applause Vader. A nice vinyl/plastic statue. If you're going to customize, though you're looking at a mego size figure.

Applause vinil statue! Right! It's too little! I know that ,but it makes me sad that a plastic economic toys is more screen accurate than a £200 or more 1/6 collectibles!!

 

[eczamurai]

so hopefully you can get it to where you like it. hey it`s not going to be movie quality but if close is good enough I guess that`s where it has to be

Yes exactly. Vader is looking great so far, need to finetune a little bit and make sure he's as sharpy sculpted as possible but he's getting there! He will end up like Boba, not quite movie quality but pretty good all things considered!

 

[generalgrevious]

don't ever think we can make movie quality type in this small of scale but close

 

[eczamurai]

Left side still needs some slight work, but the right cheek looks great imo (our right)

 

[Bmacattack]

Great work eczamurai! I've been really enjoying seeing your progress. Sorry if you have already answered this, but what are you using to sculpt? I'm using Aves Apoxie sculpt to overhaul a SS ANH helmet. It works great but the surfaces are really rough after it cures. How do you get yours so smooth looking?

 

[eczamurai]

Great work eczamurai! I've been really enjoying seeing your progress. Sorry if you have already answered this, but what are you using to sculpt? I'm using Aves Apoxie sculpt to overhaul a SS ANH helmet. It works great but the surfaces are really rough after it cures. How do you get yours so smooth looking?

Water and using smooth gloves. Also brushes work.

 

[eczamurai]

Water and using smooth gloves. Also brushes work.

And I use mili put superfine white. But I'm not familiar with other brands. This is just what I use lol. No specific reason

 

[matrix69]

View attachment 161407 Some fantastic work with all the vader mods. Here's my sideshow and kaiyodo bash.

 

[Bmacattack]

And I use mili put superfine white. But I'm not familiar with other brands. This is just what I use lol. No specific reason

Thanks for the info! Your posts have inspired my work and helped my own custom a lot.

View attachment 161407 Some fantastic work with all the vader mods. Here's my sideshow and kaiyodo bash.

That is gorgeous! What mods have you done on the face mask? I've gotta get my hands on one.

 

[Dr. Odd]

Great work matrix! One of the best vaders I've seen! Please give us a breakdown of what you used!

 

[davejames]

The only Kaiyodo Vaders I ever see on Ebay are those Revoltech super-poseable action figures. That can't be what people are using, can it? Is there some older rare figure people are using, that I can never find?

 

[matrix69]

Thanks for kind feedback. The kaiyodo kit really is beautifully made and more accurate than any of the 1/6 offerings we've seen so far. The only mods i made to the mask was to cut the back out and replace it with the sideshow reveal head. Also replaced tusks with sideshows. A good paint job really brings out the great sculpt of the mask.View attachment 161418 Body is bash of both sideshow vaders shortened to stand just under 13.5 tall

 

[eczamurai]

Thanks for kind feedback. The kaiyodo kit really is beautifully made and more accurate than any of the 1/6 offerings we've seen so far. The only mods i made to the mask was to cut the back out and replace it with the sideshow reveal head. Also replaced tusks with sideshows. A good paint job really brings out the great sculpt of the mask.View attachment 161418 Body is bash of both sideshow vaders shortened to stand just under 13.5 tall

That really does look good! Mine is coming along well, what is an easy mod to suggest is taking the sculpt and reshaping the mouth grill the proper way. It's crooked the wrong way. This would mean you had to heat it up thought might ruin your paint might not be worth it.

But it would look accurate.



This picture shows what I mean, I reshaped my Vader's mouth the other way around. With his left tusk lower than his right instead of the other way around.

 

[eczamurai]

here's what I resculpted so far:

eyebrows, lower eyelids, his nose with the currect curve to it. reshaped the mouthgrill, resculpted the cheeks. remodeled the small bits between his eyes to be more accurate.

 

[matrix69]

Thanks to the wonderful work of yours and other guys on here for inspiring me. Looking forward to seeing your vader when its finished. Incredible work your putting into it!

 

[Dr. Odd]

Matrix, are those sideshow shin guards you used? And is that the sideshow ANH suit or is it custom?

 

[TaliBane]

This is my $25 custom Vader, still a WIP. This is all Hasbro except the Sideshow gloves and codpiece.

The $25 was for those couple of SSC pieces in addition to the Hasbro figure bought back in the day on clearance. I almost donated the figure, but as a customizing exercise I thought I'd see what I could do to make a "background" Vader. Obviously pretty much everything was a long-ways off sculpt-wise (except dome) with undersize rubbery chest box and awful face-mask that needed a ton of dremeling, gluing and fudging just to make it look like Vader.

It is just under 13.5" tall, so at least is in scale. It's for background in my imperials display - NOT for closer inspection. I have a bunch of custom figs I'll be putting up pics of in the next week (mostly imperials.)

Still need to lengthen the arms slightly, polish/gloss all the black armor parts and make a cape collar (I made a chain.) Anyway, I know this isn't technically a custom SSC Vader, but thought I'd post it here (before I post on my custom page) because there's a lot of Vader experts and talented customizers and I thought it might be interesting as a curiosity.

 

[TaliBane]

Some fantastic work with all the vader mods. Here's my sideshow and kaiyodo bash.

Stunning work, one of the best 1/6 Vaders I've ever seen. It easily passes the "man in a suit" test (i.e. looks like a pic of a full size Vader.) Amazing work.

 

[eczamurai]

This is my $25 custom Vader, still a WIP. This is all Hasbro except the Sideshow gloves and codpiece.

The $25 was for those couple of SSC pieces in addition to the Hasbro figure bought back in the day on clearance. I almost donated the figure, but as a customizing exercise I thought I'd see what I could do to make a "background" Vader. Obviously pretty much everything was a long-ways off sculpt-wise (except dome) with undersize rubbery chest box and awful face-mask that needed a ton of dremeling, gluing and fudging just to make it look like Vader.

It is just under 13.5" tall, so at least is in scale. It's for background in my imperials display - NOT for closer inspection. I have a bunch of custom figs I'll be putting up pics of in the next week (mostly imperials.)

Still need to lengthen the arms slightly, polish/gloss all the black armor parts and make a cape collar (I made a chain.) Anyway, I know this isn't technically a custom SSC Vader, but thought I'd post it here (before I post on my custom page) because there's a lot of Vader experts and talented customizers and I thought it might be interesting as a curiosity.

Hard to believe that's the hasbro mask! Looks 100% better!

 

[McHaleyArt]

Thanks for kind feedback. The kaiyodo kit really is beautifully made and more accurate than any of the 1/6 offerings we've seen so far. The only mods i made to the mask was to cut the back out and replace it with the sideshow reveal head. Also replaced tusks with sideshows. A good paint job really brings out the great sculpt of the mask.View attachment 161418 Body is bash of both sideshow vaders shortened to stand just under 13.5 tall

Looks very nice. The Kaiyodo mask makes the Sideshow dome look better.