Hot Toys Darth Vader : tips , tricks and any other mods

[generalgrevious]

I have been working on a hybrid of ESB & ROTJ VADER. I took a photo but was not happy with it. so I might try to get one in soon.

 

[zackg__]

Nice! Here’s mine that I’ve been working on for a while

 

[Sturtrup]

Hot toys body suit.....too less to be of the party?

A question...
I'm not sure about the color of the mesh in esb. Black? Metal? Dark metal?

 

[generalgrevious]

looks great. I think it might be metal. I know the mask that HURRICANE did for me the mesh looks metal don't remember what the color looked like on the ESB mask.

 

[generalgrevious]

Nice! Here’s mine that I’ve been working on for a while

looks great. I see the Hasbro royal guard in the back ground I have the same one plus a custom royal guard on it`s way. here is my photo of my cross of ROTJ ESB Vader.

 

[Solo_bones]

 

[TaliBane]

Hot toys body suit.....too less to be of the party?

A question...
I'm not sure about the color of the mesh in esb. Black? Metal? Dark metal?

Yeah, I toned down the mesh on my Hurricane because it looks a bit bright. I think they leave it bright metal, but it felt like it should be more gunmetal.

 

[zackg__]

So with the fragile nature of the sideshow Darth Vader tusks as well as the HT, I’ve been searching for an easy, semi expensive Vader tusk fix for about a year now. I’ve made my own out of metal slot car pieces and sewing pins but that was slightly expensive and frankly a pain to do. I’ve tried recasting the ones I have on my rogue one mask but the press mold I had didn’t work well and didn’t want to spend the money for the silicon kit on Amazon. Last week I actually broke and lost a tusk on my rogue one Vader helmet so I had to “double my efforts” today, I think I finally found the solution. They aren’t 100% accurate, as these are scale bolts. But they look pretty damn good once they’re painted.

 

[generalgrevious]

looks cool. are you using the RO vader for your ESB version ?

 

[zackg__]

No, I may make another vader down the line and didn't want to have this sitting in a drawer. My ESB vader is using the Kaiyodo mask

 

[generalgrevious]

yeah I`m using the same mask from Kaiyodo. I posted my custom just a couple pictures up of the unmasked version of him.

 

[McHaleyArt]

Sanded some length off of the neck on the mask. Could do with some more shortening, but then I might have the shorten the inner neck.

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[rhboyd]

holy hell!! that's amazing!! if I may... what kind of finish is on the helm? I can't seem to find the balance between gloss and flat...

 

[McHaleyArt]

holy hell!! that's amazing!! if I may... what kind of finish is on the helm? I can't seem to find the balance between gloss and flat...

Outside of the dome is the stock finish. I did a light sanding on the inside of the dome, dabbed it with acrylic medium matte gel (to add texture), mixed with a little flat black, then dry brushed the inside with gloss black.


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[generalgrevious]

which version is the vader mask ANH or RO? I have both and a hurricane ANH vader looks awesome.

 

[McHaleyArt]

which version is the vader mask ANH or RO? I have both and a hurricane ANH vader looks awesome.

It’s ANH.


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[McHaleyArt]

That looks amazing! Which body have you used ?

Mine looks like a pile of ***p . It's the one figure that I'd love to look right and I can't seem to get it anywhere close.

From the waist up, HT ANH. From the hips down, HT Roadblock.

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[paulcarson]

Thank you. It looks like a man in a costume.

 

[rastanz]

Hello, there's some pretty awesome custom Vaders here which inspired me to fix mine, so I thought I'd share what changes I did to my Sideshow Collectables Darth Vader.

I pretty much done what has been done here, I swapped the SSC helmet/head for the Hot Toys and broke it into three pieces, using my dremel, I trimmed down the tabs on the inside so the helmet sat a little lower, I also did the eye lens mod with some chrome sheet placed on the inside of the helmet.

With the head complete, I then did a complete strip down and swap of the SSC one piece body suit to the Hot Toys three piece, I also swapped out the inner tunic and cape for a custom set which I purchased on eBay.

With some trimming here and adjustments there I can call this done and personally, I like the changes and my Vader is no longer cringe worthy.

 

[Solo_bones]

Outside of the dome is the stock finish. I did a light sanding on the inside of the dome, dabbed it with acrylic medium matte gel (to add texture), mixed with a little flat black, then dry brushed the inside with gloss black.


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This always confuses the hell out of me, I'm a video kind of guy....pictures, i need pictures because I don't know what these products are. Very excellent work, though. Impressive.