Dark Toys 1/6 Rick Deckard

[Indian Jones]

Ended up taking up his offer for the tie with the larger knot, looks much better now and covers the button on the shirt.
Might not be as 100% accurate but I prefer not being able to see the button than having a smaller knot.
Still need to adjust the collar at the back of the neck and maybe drop the head down a bit more as his neck looks quite long.

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Is that the stock DTs body, @ronnieb555? It looks a bit undersized and lacking musculature, which the stock DTs body does. Or, it may be the camera focal length throwing proportions off. I found that swapping him to a better body helped make him much more lifelike and screen accurate in height, overall size and proportion. Perhaps that might be something for you to consider next, too, if he is still in the stock DT's body. And the better/ added musculature and definition of the new body helped fill out his clothing more. Although, the caveat was that his coat and trousers were then a bit too short. This really annoyed me. I no longer have that figure but hope to build a new Deckard at some point.

You could easily cut the neck down a bit to get his neck height better, if you plan to stick with this body.

You can use off-the-shelf spray starch, or make it using corn starch and water and wet iron the collar to get it to a nice, crisp shape and fit and to stay in place. I sometimes do this for certain areas of garments like a shirt collar. I used spray starch for the coat collar, too and re made the crease to get it more screen-accurate and it looked great. Soaking/ rinsing in white vinegar and water and futzing will also give a more natural look after loosening the fibres and making the garment more supple. This might work well if you want to replicate how Deckard's collar looks in some scenes form the film, or to get the the bottom part of it nicely pinched/ bent in on his collar bone, as it is on Ford in the film. That said, looking back at some of my Deckard photos, I realise that I had tugged down a lot on mine and perhaps tugging and pulling it out, fanning it out instead, if possible, would have looked more natural and screen-accurate.

All the very best with your Deckard

 

[ronnieb555]

Is that the stock DTs body, @ronnieb555? It looks a bit undersized and lacking musculature, which the stock DTs body does. Or, it may be the camera focal length throwing proportions off. I found that swapping him to a better body helped make him much more lifelike and screen accurate in height, overall size and proportion. Perhaps that might be something for you to consider next, too, if he is still in the stock DT's body. And the better/ added musculature and definition of the new body helped fill out his clothing more. Although, the caveat was that his coat and trousers were then a bit too short. This really annoyed me. I no longer have that figure but hope to build a new Deckard at some point.

You could easily cut the neck down a bit to get his neck height better, if you plan to stick with this body.

You can use off-the-shelf spray starch, or make it using corn starch and water and wet iron the collar to get it to a nice, crisp shape and fit and to stay in place. I sometimes do this for certain areas of garments like a shirt collar. I used spray starch for the coat collar, too and re made the crease to get it more screen-accurate and it looked great. Soaking/ rinsing in white vinegar and water and futzing will also give a more natural look after loosening the fibres and making the garment more supple. This might work well if you want to replicate how Deckard's collar looks in some scenes form the film, or to get the the bottom part of it nicely pinched/ bent in on his collar bone, as it is on Ford in the film. That said, looking back at some of my Deckard photos, I realise that I had tugged down a lot on mine and perhaps tugging and pulling it out, fanning it out instead, if possible, would have looked more natural and screen-accurate.

All the very best with your Deckard

Thanks for the tips, it's not the stock body, I don't remember which body I swapped this outfit to though as it was just a spare one I had at the time.

I think for now I'm just going to wait for the other 2-3 versions of this figure to release from the other 3rd party companies and then pick and choose the best parts from each to make one figure.

If I come into any money, I'll get a full outfit commissioned by someone to make it as accurate as possible.

 

[potato]

Is that the stock DTs body, @ronnieb555? It looks a bit undersized and lacking musculature, which the stock DTs body does. Or, it may be the camera focal length throwing proportions off. I found that swapping him to a better body helped make him much more lifelike and screen accurate in height, overall size and proportion. Perhaps that might be something for you to consider next, too, if he is still in the stock DT's body. And the better/ added musculature and definition of the new body helped fill out his clothing more. Although, the caveat was that his coat and trousers were then a bit too short. This really annoyed me. I no longer have that figure but hope to build a new Deckard at some point.

You could easily cut the neck down a bit to get his neck height better, if you plan to stick with this body.

You can use off-the-shelf spray starch, or make it using corn starch and water and wet iron the collar to get it to a nice, crisp shape and fit and to stay in place. I sometimes do this for certain areas of garments like a shirt collar. I used spray starch for the coat collar, too and re made the crease to get it more screen-accurate and it looked great. Soaking/ rinsing in white vinegar and water and futzing will also give a more natural look after loosening the fibres and making the garment more supple. This might work well if you want to replicate how Deckard's collar looks in some scenes form the film, or to get the the bottom part of it nicely pinched/ bent in on his collar bone, as it is on Ford in the film. That said, looking back at some of my Deckard photos, I realise that I had tugged down a lot on mine and perhaps tugging and pulling it out, fanning it out instead, if possible, would have looked more natural and screen-accurate.

All the very best with your Deckard

curious starch is edible wouldnt this be an issue later with bacteria etc?

 

[Indian Jones]

curious starch is edible wouldnt this be an issue later with bacteria etc?

I've never heard of that being a concern, and after a quick Google, it seems some types of starch are more prone to bacteria being able to eat it than others. But if spray starch is an issue with bacteria and you don't feel safe doing that, you could just wet-iron using water, or distilled or demineralised water if it needs to go directly into your iron. Wet ironing will give a similar result, but it won't be quite the same.

But I'd wager than most folks in the West handle their figures with bare hands. So, in the first instance, I would be more concerned about the the microbes on the surface of one's skin, sweat and hair than a wee bit of starch, especially if one is buying their figure(s) second-hand. I would also be more concerned about dust, which contains thousands of different species of microbes. But any serious collector keeps their figures dust free, or will do their best to keep dust at a minimum on them for this reason in the first place, to prevent their figures from rotting.

I hope that helps.