1/6 Hot Toys - MMS 279 - Star Wars Episode IV: 1/6th scale Darth Vader

[QuiGonFishing]

Yep, the "C" scar and the edge wear are pretty much required artifacts if you doing any detailed finish mods. Great work, WTC!

 

[Waste Time Continuum]

you are a master, sir!! love it!! FINALLY snagged an extra set of gauntlets!! yippeee!!!

Awesome! If your doing the glove mod, let me know if you have any questions. I'm happy to help.

Yep, the "C" scar and the edge wear are pretty much required artifacts if you doing any detailed finish mods. Great work, WTC!

Thanks!

The goal is to make a 1/6 scale Vader that looks like Ant-Man shrunk the real Vader down LOL!


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[rhboyd]

Awesome! If your doing the glove mod, let me know if you have any questions. I'm happy to help.

thanks pal!! I'm gonna do your glove mod on one set, and "adapt" another set to use with the SS gloves... thinking of cutting the gauntlets off the SS, leaving the hands, and attaching the gauntlets to them.

 

[Waste Time Continuum]

That's a really good idea.


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[rhboyd]

high praise!! I'll let you all know when the gauntlets arrive!

 

[chalor]

Hey guys,
I'm looking for an affordable Hot Toys red grated Star Wars stand (either the regular red one or the darker Fett one). If anyone is interested in selling one, please PM me. I'd like to get one for my TIE pilot that I just ordered.....and really don't want to pay the super high US prices on eBay.

Thanks,
Travis

 

[rhboyd]

Check Toy Anxiety... I think they had a Vader stand up...

 

[TonTon]

Vader helmet is looking pretty incredible, WTC!

 

[wpbats]

Man, I tried to get my helmet apart to do the eye mod and could not do it. I managed to get the dome off but splitting the helmet proved to be too much and I gave up. Disappointed as I love that reddish eye look.


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[Snake Plissken]

Still looking for a Vader box is anyone has one.

 

[Waste Time Continuum]

Man, I tried to get my helmet apart to do the eye mod and could not do it. I managed to get the dome off but splitting the helmet proved to be too much and I gave up. Disappointed as I love that reddish eye look.


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It's definitely a patience game. I almost gave up at the dome stage.


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[paulcarson]

It is definitely worth the effort . ( As some of our talented friends amongst us have shown )

 

[Clone217]

I like the figure a lot. I have to agree to some on this form that he is somewhat thick or fat or too huskie . Being that said. Has anybody experiment in changing bodies or shaving down other than arm pits . I was thinking of using the Man of Steel body. Its slight taller. I believe.

 

[Waste Time Continuum]

I like the figure a lot. I have to agree to some on this form that he is somewhat thick or fat or too huskie . Being that said. Has anybody experiment in changing bodies or shaving down other than arm pits . I was thinking of using the Man of Steel body. Its slight taller. I believe.

I wasn't crazy about the body. I decided to go with the Hot Toys Roadblock body. The stock hot toys bodysuit was too puffy looking for me, like an evil rodeo clown, so I decided to use the Sideshow ANH Vader body suit. A padded fat-suit is also required for the abdominal area to achieve the most natural appearance.

Hot Toys suit on stock body:

Sideshow suit on Roadblock body (no ab padding):

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[TonTon]

HT body and suit looks like a marshmallow licorice dessert man. I like the rich black color to it though.

 

[Solo_bones]

Is the stock cape workable or is it best to get a custom?

 

[Waste Time Continuum]

The stock cape is great.


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[TonTon]

I think the only flaw on the stock cape is that it's a bit too long. Looks excellent when Vader is on the stand as it drapes around it, but doesn't drape as nicely when Vader and the cape are on the same surface.

 

[SilverStar17]

I think the only flaw on the stock cape is that it's a bit too long. Looks excellent when Vader is on the stand as it drapes around it, but doesn't drape as nicely when Vader and the cape are on the same surface.

Yep, noticed this to apply to many of HT's stock capes for various figures.

 

[Solo_bones]

Ok, thanks. I'm sure some modding will be done on my end......it just seems the mods are so radical....nothing easy about modding this figure.