Hot Toys - MMS 719, MMS 720, MMS 721, MMS 722 - A New Hope: Sandtrooper Sergeant and Dewback 1/6 Scale Collectible Figure

[slynger]

For those with the trooper all paid up, did you get shipping notices from SS? My last payment hit on the 5th and it’s still “processing.”

 

[THE dAY]

Found just the figure on the cheap, he came without the pauldron so used stormtrooper commander's orange pauldron on him. He looks great, love the weathering, done really well!

 

[Chainedstream]

Amazing picture @THE dAY ! Great use of the commander's pauldorn. Looks exactly how I'd imagine a 2.0 of 295.

 

[THE dAY]

Amazing picture @THE dAY ! Great use of the commander's pauldorn. Looks exactly how I'd imagine a 2.0 of 295.

Thanks man, it fits him perfectly but needed a little weathering to match.
Here's a before and after:

 

[Felinx]

In the closer shots you wish HT would have done actual cut-out gaps/voids between the teeth rather than just black paint in recesses, or at least not allow the weathering to turn the black of those "cut-out gaps" into a dark grey (thereby no longer reading as voids.)

I've often tried to think of a way to cut into the HT sandie sculpt to fix the sculpt inaccuracies but its the equivalent of high-risk microsurgery where you can lose the patient with a cut that goes 0.5mm too far.

 

[ZE_501]

I've often tried to think of a way to cut into the HT sandie sculpt to fix the sculpt inaccuracies but its the equivalent of high-risk microsurgery where you can lose the patient with a cut that goes 0.5mm too far.

I own jeweller's tools and it's not worth the effort, never mind the risk. If I had to fix one of these helmets, I'd just completely cut out the offending parts and rebuild with 3D-printed and/or hand-modeled parts, similar to @agonistes86 's excellent work on the 1/4 Vader, but given the state of Hot Toys stormie helmets at that point you might consider just replacing the whole thing.