ANH Buckets

[TaliBane]

Half the year over and still no word on these... guess I?m out on the money I paid...

What's weird is that Solo_Bones account shows last activity was 06-16-2020 - only a month ago.

 

[TaliBane]

With so many missing out and perhaps even losing money, not sure if we're supposed to post these pics here anymore, but I finally - after like 2 years - finished this helmet. It was a total pain to do this - way, way too much sanding and painting - but I'm reasonably happy with how it came out. The decals worked out quite well

This is an ESB style helmet with the black mouth because it's going in my Bespin set-up, though I just noticed that for some reason I painted the chin vent as ANH style so will need to tweak that. I was kind of running out of patience.

The eyes are just black paint with several layers of clear green gloss over it. For those considering cutting out the eye holes and putting real dark green lenses behind, just black plus clear green does give pretty much indistinguishable effect. And btw, I did leave a couple of tiny areas of white inside the lenses deliberately.

Also, I swapped out the ANH shoulder bells for the HT ROTJ versions (which are closer to the ESB style) and used some HT ROTJ hands (which have the ESB hand armor) and also did both a left and right grip set of hands because it's during ESB that they started to dump the "left grip only" rule for stormies.

The chest armor is supposed to ride much higher in ESB (like where there's no black visible in the neck area from the front) but I just ran out of attention span with this one - I may tweak that later. It requires pulling some of the armor off (due to overlapping elastic straps) to adjust the placement and it was hard enough just swapping out the shoulder bells.

 

[D.R.37]

Looks good, Tali

 

[Adam1138]

Looks great Tali. The ESB version will be what I will eventually make with one of these helmets.

 

[Waste Time Continuum]

Looks fantastic!

I especially like how you painted the eyes so that you can see a little flash from where they didnt perfectly cut out the eye holes.


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[agonistes86]

Great work, Tali!

With so many missing out and perhaps even losing money, not sure if we're supposed to post these pics here anymore, ...

From what I understand, scottjua and I are the only two members who paid and never received their sculpts. For what it's worth, I don't have any bad feelings about this whole situation. You live and you learn, and this time it simply didn't work out. I still love seeing all you guys' work done on this. An accurate ANH bucket remains one of my grails, so all of these shots are simply fueling my desire to have some.

 

[Waste Time Continuum]

I got bit once with a custom season 1 Daredevil head sculpt. I sent it to a dude that also painted my custom Indy, he was awesome, and his work is fantastic, but he just never sent back the Daredevil HS, and as the excuses slowly piled up the communication slowly disintegrated.


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[irezumi]

 

[Waste Time Continuum]

So bummed I missed out on these.


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[scottjua]

So bummed I missed out on these.


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well at least you didn't send payment for multiples and get hosed like some of us...

 

[TaliBane]

Yeah, it's the reason I was uncertain about posting any more pics in this thread.

Maybe this thread should just be allowed to fade away and people could post any helmet pics in their own thread or the HT stormie thread (given the figs are 3/4 HT stormie anyway.)

 

[Craig Walker]

I have two I bought.....don't remember when/what version. Have the Bad Mother stickers too.

 

[jedijim3002]

Wow! Those are cool!


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[Craig Walker]

Have no idea where to sell them......not trying to spam the thread, but any suggestions welcome.

 

[ZE_501]

Have no idea where to sell them......not trying to spam the thread, but any suggestions welcome.

When I sold a couple I just posted availability here; someone will no doubt contact you.


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[D.R.37]

Nice. Those look like the base for Will’s bucket; the ones original offered on Shapeways years ago.

 

[Son Of Dengar]

I have two of these and full armor sets from the SS Luke and Han Stormtrooper set. I wanna make a squadron of five Sandtroopers that still have a little shine to the armor. I gotta get on it.

 

[irezumi]

Curious, wondering if this is thee same solobones posting on Jazzinc dio fb page?

 

[Waste Time Continuum]

Yeah, I think it?s him. His profile is loaded with Stormtrooper figures wearing the helmets he was offering.


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[ZE_501]

Wow, that's awkward.