EXO-6 Star Trek “Deep Space Nine” Figures

[jedibear]

Quark has arrived!

Be it Sideshow, Hot Toys or even Hasbro back in the day, all of the sixth-scale producers share one really cool thing. The alien characters ALWAYS come out fantastic! Quark is exceptional...Armin really comes through on the portrait. Well done, Exo-6!

 

[Skyroes]

Awesome picture @jedibear!

 

[QuiGonFishing]

Quark has arrived!
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Be it Sideshow, Hot Toys or even Hasbro back in the day, all of the sixth-scale producers share one really cool thing. The alien characters ALWAYS come out fantastic! Quark is exceptional...Armin really comes through on the portrait. Well done, Exo-6!

I agree! He is quite spectacular! I imagine with aliens we may not decern likeness in quite the same personal way we do with human faces, so any subtle imperfections in alien sculpts don’t strike us as much if at all. So there’s probably a lot more wiggle room for alien sculpts to be seen as A+ as compared to a figure of Luke Skywalker for instance.

But whatever the reason, I perfectly fine with it because these aliens look FANTASTIC!

And speaking of fantastic, what a FANTASTIC photo you took there @jedibear !

 

[davejames]

It still kinda blows my mind that we have a 1/6 Quark figure now.

 

[scubasteve_85]

He’s got such amazing shelve presence too!

 

[Heavy Metal Spike]

Quark has arrived!
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Be it Sideshow, Hot Toys or even Hasbro back in the day, all of the sixth-scale producers share one really cool thing. The alien characters ALWAYS come out fantastic! Quark is exceptional...Armin really comes through on the portrait. Well done, Exo-6!

Simply stunning!

I adore the series, the character, this figure, AND your photo. Perfect portrait.

Well-done to the sculptor and to the EXO-6 production team


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[abaddon368]

He photographs well...

 

[jedibear]

He sure does!

A shot with the Emissary...

 

[jedibear]

High price for passage....

 

[Skyroes]

Anyone else see this fan made opening for a DS9 spinoff? It’s a work of art - the Locutus sequence is brilliant. I don’t see Avery Brooks ever coming back as Sisko though.

 

[QuiGonFishing]

Very cool!

 

[QuiGonFishing]

Not sure I’m 100% sold on the overall color they landed on for Kira’s uniform, but those sleeve patterns remain a remarkable improvement over the prototype! And the sculpt in profile looks pretty great! I believe this is the first production sample photo EXO has released of Kira sans blur.

 

[davejames]

Yeah I just really don't understand the color choices with this figure. It's good that he dialed down the crosshatching, but now the arms and shoulders don't look nearly as dark as they should be. Should be closer to the belt color.

But hey, we're just a bunch of dumb "Experts" who don't know anything about color or what looks right on these characters we've been obsessing over for decades.

 

[Kebron]

Yeah I just really don't understand the color choices with this figure. It's good that he dialed down the crosshatching, but now the arms and shoulders don't look nearly as dark as they should be. Should be closer to the belt color.

But hey, we're just a bunch of dumb "Experts" who don't know anything about color or what looks right on these characters we've been obsessing over for decades.


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Well I’m no expert but I do know lighting plays a lot into what colors look like in pictures both TV and figure pics.

I also know uniforms like hairstyles changed from season to season.

I also know that pictures rarely look the same on a screen as it does having the object in hand.

As I said Im no expert but Nanjin hasn’t missed on a uniform yet, and I’m sure once we get her in hand this won’t be any different.

 

[davejames]

We're not talking about a subtle change in color temperature or hue like in those screenshots.

 

[Kebron]

We're not talking about a subtle change in color temperature or hue like in those screenshots.

Well considering lighting can have subtle AND/OR drastic changes in how color is perceived, I'd say we are talking about it.

This subject is a dead horse that people keep beating on. The lighting in the picture affects how the color looks. The low res pictures, and lighting from most of the older Trek shows affects how we see the actual color of the outfit.

 

[Skyroes]

And the sculpt in profile looks pretty great!

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I completely agree, they haven’t fallen short on any DS9 or TNG release to date. A definite improvement in bringing out those facial details.

 

[Brunt FCA]

now the arms and shoulders don't look nearly as dark as they should be

I wonder if this is a symptom of the mix-and-match approach they've taken to Kira. She's wearing an early uniform type, but with coloring closer to that of a later one.

 

[davejames]

I'm hoping he just has a super bright spotlight shining on her in that shot, and everything will be much more subdued in hand. Lol

 

[QuiGonFishing]

I'm hoping he just has a super bright spotlight shining on her in that shot, and everything will be much more subdued in hand. Lol

Me too, but I doubt it. Every last shot I've seen of the producion sample has been that hot pink look.

The thing that surprises me is that NT is SUCH a stickler for set accuracy and his own photos of the screen worn uniform that he reports that he’s using for reference are SO different from the product we’re seeing so far. Hoping a miracle occurs and the final figure that ships looks like these uniform photos.

These are the photos NT posted himself of the reference uniform.