Too Much Garlic
Super Freak
Re: Hot Toys Darth Vader Sixth Scale Figure
The face mask sculpt is looking pretty good to me. The dome is just wrong. The main issue is the brow width above the eyes being too wide and there's something off about the dome skirt. Also, for ANH the inner dome skirt edge should be wider and not slope back - that's an ESB and RotJ trait - and the look on the current dome is clearly RotJ inspired. The comparison with that ESB style helmet that is likely the helmet used briefly at the end of RotJ just before they switched to the actual reveal helmet shows some of the issues with the dome in particular.
I agree that it is looking miles better than the Sideshow sculpt, but honestly, to me, it really wouldn't have taken much to top that. It also looks better than the Kaiyodo sculpt, which to me is as good as the Marmit sculpt - so again, for the face mask at least, it is right up there with what I consider the best helmet sculpts on 1:6 scale licensed figures.
Jack Bauer - the fact that you have an SL makes me kinda interested in what username you have on other forums, 'cause I don't recognize it from other boards. If you are willing to share it but not openly, you can always pm me. If you have direct contact with Hot Toys, I hope you can nudge them on making fixes.
Eye sockets on the ANH should be black - upper and lower and the front upper edge that is visible under the dome - the surface next to the nose bridge should be gunmetal. The black parting line on top of the nose at the surface with the nail marks under the eyes, should match the one seen in that ESB picture. The placement they have it at now is a predominantly ESB style look (even though the reference picture is an ESB style helmet, that parting line placement is atypical for most of the ESB helmets.
They need to lose that nose insert. Makes it look like a Rubies Supreme. Also, the ANH nose isn't silver, it's gunmetal.
If HT is partners with eFX, then they have no excuse for not getting the ANH helmet right, as they'd have the perfect reference from the eFX Vader helmet, regarding the shape. The paint scheme is another matter where the reference simply does not support their choices.
The Cinemaquette, if I remember correctly, is made from a scan off a real helmet - just assembled wrong. Unless you want to replicate the Hoth charge look seen briefly in ESB.
Regarding my own project we are still hoping to make that happen sometime next year.
The face mask sculpt is looking pretty good to me. The dome is just wrong. The main issue is the brow width above the eyes being too wide and there's something off about the dome skirt. Also, for ANH the inner dome skirt edge should be wider and not slope back - that's an ESB and RotJ trait - and the look on the current dome is clearly RotJ inspired. The comparison with that ESB style helmet that is likely the helmet used briefly at the end of RotJ just before they switched to the actual reveal helmet shows some of the issues with the dome in particular.
I agree that it is looking miles better than the Sideshow sculpt, but honestly, to me, it really wouldn't have taken much to top that. It also looks better than the Kaiyodo sculpt, which to me is as good as the Marmit sculpt - so again, for the face mask at least, it is right up there with what I consider the best helmet sculpts on 1:6 scale licensed figures.
Jack Bauer - the fact that you have an SL makes me kinda interested in what username you have on other forums, 'cause I don't recognize it from other boards. If you are willing to share it but not openly, you can always pm me. If you have direct contact with Hot Toys, I hope you can nudge them on making fixes.
Eye sockets on the ANH should be black - upper and lower and the front upper edge that is visible under the dome - the surface next to the nose bridge should be gunmetal. The black parting line on top of the nose at the surface with the nail marks under the eyes, should match the one seen in that ESB picture. The placement they have it at now is a predominantly ESB style look (even though the reference picture is an ESB style helmet, that parting line placement is atypical for most of the ESB helmets.
They need to lose that nose insert. Makes it look like a Rubies Supreme. Also, the ANH nose isn't silver, it's gunmetal.
If HT is partners with eFX, then they have no excuse for not getting the ANH helmet right, as they'd have the perfect reference from the eFX Vader helmet, regarding the shape. The paint scheme is another matter where the reference simply does not support their choices.
The Cinemaquette, if I remember correctly, is made from a scan off a real helmet - just assembled wrong. Unless you want to replicate the Hoth charge look seen briefly in ESB.
Regarding my own project we are still hoping to make that happen sometime next year.
) The SSC 3PO's body looks awesome and the Tama head looks awesome... grrr.
