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.

 

[Felinx]

Yeah a 1/6 stormtrooper helmet is one of those ones that fans can like even though if you really know what you're looking at, it's way off in a half dozen different ways.

I tried to fix the HT orange pauldron version's bucket just with paint (e.g. "moving" the teeth slightly higher and doing a hairline of black between "ears" and helmet) and also carving out the goggle lenses with a scalpel to be a bit bigger but it was a middling result overall.

I had a bit more success with the HT ANH bucket which I repurposed to be with my ESB/ROTJ hybrid trooper (seen only in a couple of freeze chamber shots and in ESB promo pics with Carrie Fisher.) I got that one more than 3/4 of the way to feeling accurate to my eye.

 

[HyperDrive]

I had a bit more success with the HT ANH bucket which I repurposed to be with my ESB/ROTJ hybrid trooper (seen only in a couple of freeze chamber shots and in ESB promo pics with Carrie Fisher.) I got that one more than 3/4 of the way to feeling accurate to my eye.

Oooh. Do you have pics of it? I have a ESB only display for OT, and I was thinking of modifying the MMS268 ANH Stormtrooper.

 

[Felinx]

Oooh. Do you have pics of it? I have a ESB only display for OT, and I was thinking of modifying the MMS268 ANH Stormtrooper.

This stormie (briefly seen in ESB) has a mix of newer (at the time) ROTJ armor parts and original ANH/ESB, so it has the distinctive ROTJ chest armor. I think he's the one who Chewie throws off the carbon freeze deck.

This trooper is a bit like the unique "Muppet Show blaster" Luke uses in just a couple of shots during Dagobah arrival and nowhere else, or the ANH-style Vader helmet used in the single shot of ESB in Hoth base arrival.

This helmet was just being wasted in my Luke stormie's hands (because I really didn't like it) so I thought I'd try to salvage it.

 

[agonistes86]

This stormie (briefly seen in ESB) has a mix of newer (at the time) ROTJ armor parts and original ANH/ESB, so it has the distinctive ROTJ chest armor. I think he's the one who Chewie throws off the carbon freeze deck.

This trooper is a bit like the unique "Muppet Show blaster" Luke uses in just a couple of shots during Dagobah arrival and nowhere else, or the ANH-style Vader helmet used in the single shot of ESB in Hoth base arrival.

This helmet was just being wasted in my Luke stormie's hands (because I really didn't like it) so I thought I'd try to salvage it.

I honestly thought for a second that this was a lifesize suit, maybe on display at some show. Your futzing makes it look incredibly realistic!

 

[HyperDrive]

This stormie (briefly seen in ESB) has a mix of newer (at the time) ROTJ armor parts and original ANH/ESB, so it has the distinctive ROTJ chest armor. I think he's the one who Chewie throws off the carbon freeze deck.

This trooper is a bit like the unique "Muppet Show blaster" Luke uses in just a couple of shots during Dagobah arrival and nowhere else, or the ANH-style Vader helmet used in the single shot of ESB in Hoth base arrival.

This helmet was just being wasted in my Luke stormie's hands (because I really didn't like it) so I thought I'd try to salvage it.

You learn something new everyday! I didn’t know the ESB troops were wearing the ROTJ chest armor piece.

Looks amazing and lifelike.

I’ll look into modding a couple of the 2-pack ANH stormtrooper figures to this!

 

[Mr.Tanker]

Yeah, the tough part of people wanting "accurate" OT figures and accessories is the fact that prop continuity was virtually nonexistent on those films.

 

[ZE_501]

This stormie (briefly seen in ESB) has a mix of newer (at the time) ROTJ armor parts and original ANH/ESB, so it has the distinctive ROTJ chest armor. I think he's the one who Chewie throws off the carbon freeze deck.

This trooper is a bit like the unique "Muppet Show blaster" Luke uses in just a couple of shots during Dagobah arrival and nowhere else, or the ANH-style Vader helmet used in the single shot of ESB in Hoth base arrival.

This helmet was just being wasted in my Luke stormie's hands (because I really didn't like it) so I thought I'd try to salvage it.

Yep, that's very close. I know the trooper you're talking about.

 

[d-mon]

This stormie (briefly seen in ESB) has a mix of newer (at the time) ROTJ armor parts and original ANH/ESB, so it has the distinctive ROTJ chest armor. I think he's the one who Chewie throws off the carbon freeze deck.

This trooper is a bit like the unique "Muppet Show blaster" Luke uses in just a couple of shots during Dagobah arrival and nowhere else, or the ANH-style Vader helmet used in the single shot of ESB in Hoth base arrival.

This helmet was just being wasted in my Luke stormie's hands (because I really didn't like it) so I thought I'd try to salvage it.

Nice! I do believe this is the one you refer to? Make sure there are no visible screws on the ears! (photo credit: starwarshelmets.com)

 

[d-mon]

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!View attachment 762298

Nice! I did the same with a couple of my Hot Toys Sandtroopers, but I used Marmit's pauldrons. (Orange, White, and Black)

 

[d-mon]

Nice! I did the same with a couple of my Hot Toys Sandtroopers, but I used Marmit's pauldrons. (Orange, White, and Black)

The Sergeant Trooper I did a while back before they announced the new one. I added some weathering.

 

[wormlander]

Yeah, the tough part of people wanting "accurate" OT figures and accessories is the fact that prop continuity was virtually nonexistent on those films.

It's as if millions of OCD Freaks suddenly cried out in terror, realizing they will never be able to look at their collections the same again...

 

[Felinx]

Yeah, the tough part of people wanting "accurate" OT figures and accessories is the fact that prop continuity was virtually nonexistent on those films.

Eh, I'm aware of pretty much all the variations in costume/props (for example, that another trooper wears the "how long have you had these droids" trooper's armor in the wider shots in the same Mos Eisley scene, or that the "Look sir droids" white pauldron trooper is in fact the Dewback rider in publicity shots, despite the Dewback with rider being visible in the distance behind him in the movie) and that in no way impacts my desire for accuracy.

I have 1/6 stormtroopers and Death Star Troopers that cover pretty much every single variant ANH thru ROTJ (including the rare ESB/ROTJ hybrid trooper I posted a pic of a couple of days ago,) and I love all the weird onscreen quirks, like displaying my ROTJ Endor Death Star Trooper firing the Rebel Commando rifle, or the ROTJ stormie holding Chewie's bowcaster, as they do onscreen.

I just have a simple rule - if it's onscreen, you match it, and if it varies onscreen (within the movie, or even within the scene,) you choose the coolest version of it.

 

[slynger]

No Dewback for me, but it’s a great OT trooper.