Yeah maybe that's it - it's like an older ROTJ Hamill. And yeah, I have it on the custom below (I replaced the head on my non-Bd Bespin Luke with the newer Jedi Luke version but ESB hair, next pic down) and it always strikes me as just a little underwhelming, hard to put my finger on why. To me it's a more "male model" Luke, too chiseled and handsome.
I get what SS17 is saying, and I don't see the newer Jedi Luke head as a bullseye (slightly weak jawline for Hamill on that one, and also works better for ROTJ than ESB) but the DX07 non-BD just feels a tiny bit meh when I look at this Hoth base custom, and I've seen people install it for a custom Hoth Luke and I still don't quite love it.
It's not a great pic to illustrate it, but the paint quality difference on the DX07 vs the newer Jedi Luke is fairly noticeable. But as I said, still defineitly able to be displayed alongside newer HT stuff.
That hair sculpt on the HT RotJ Luke sculpt actually does look pretty good on the DX07. It could just be the angle, but I like the way the hair looks a bit more poofy, for lack of a better word, especially on the sides, as opposed to closer against the head like with the regular non-BD sculpt and hair.
I get more this vibe from it, which to me looks closer to this look than the standard DX07 sculpt and hair:
Thanks, I'm just trying to keep pace with Turd and JediJim's Luke collections, which is hard.
Yeah, I do think that SSC has that odd poofiness that Hamil''s hair has in some scenes in ESB. It's hard to capture because it can look weird, but when it's done right it really jumps out as "very ESB."
I'm redoing my Bespin display to have the DX07 with the new head/hair as the centerpiece - it made me fall in love with the fig all over again.
