1/6 MOLA RAM Custom Project

[Mr.E]

Do you have a picture of this Ganghood body?

Mola's not real muscular. Thick. Stout. Almost heavy set. But not muscular.

Obviously the arms are much too muscular for Mola, and the legs a bit long, however, with some work (and the size of the head in relation to it), these could work.

 

[TonTon]

Body shown in my pics is the JX Toys S01. I'm going to try their S02/S03 bodies to see how those fit with the sculpt. I'd like to see how the head looks against a Hot Toys Finn body, but I don't have it unfortunately and that would then require the arms to be swapped out, which kinda defeats the purpose.

Obviously the arms are much too muscular for Mola, and the legs a bit long, however, with some work (and the size of the head in relation to it), these could work.

Yeah, the arms seem to be the main issue. Why do all these movie stars -- or whoever they're basing these bodies off of -- need to be all jacked?! Outside of Amrish Puri of course.

 

[Mr.E]

Thanks everyone I'm glad it's coming together!

Just FYI, I used a combo of orange and blue dyes to tint the base color of the head sculpt, I've found straight brown to be to grey in tint.

Any chance of re-releasing your Indy sculpt by the way?

 

[Wor-Gar]

Personally, I find that Ganghood body way too muscular, not just the arms. The neck, the traps, everything. That's a good body for the Chief Guard (Pat Roach).

I mean, the S01 body TonTon showed is wrong but its not that far off. I don't see the width of the shoulders being the problem, its the muscular rounded shoulders that seem more of a mismatch to me...

Mola's neck is not veined with musculature, and his arms are slim and not cut. Unfortunately they just don't make his body type... but going all Bane seems wrong to me too...

 

[Mr.E]

If it were me, I would just use a TTM19 style body and dye it. "Normal" bodies aren't superhero cool after all...

 

[The Rogster]

There’s this body. Don’t know how it would take the dye however.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Is that any better than the S01? It doesn't even have sculpted arms.

 

[The Rogster]

No, but it doesn’t have the overly muscular shoulders of the S01. Looks like it’s a lot of give and take. Just trying to throw more options out there. I mean the gang hood is too dark and hulking but that has been considered.Nothing perfect out there

 

[Wor-Gar]

No, nothing even close to perfect. Its always been the inherent problem with Mola Ram.

But honestly, when he's dressed in ceremonial robes you really see very little skin. If you hang the sash over the left shoulder just right you can hide a lot; the sleeve on the right shoulder covers that side.

Unfortunately, the whole idea of the Savage Monk Bridge outfit goes right out the window now.

 

[LantroVe]

If you're feeling adventurous, I would make a hybrid body using the Ganghood muscular torso and putting on the ttm19-style arms.

This lol the only thing is I think the best route would be the S02 body since it looks the most square. Thing is tho..

How tall was the actor? Was he the same height as Harrison Ford? Bc all those bodies are tall... and the scale..

Honestly think best bet is like Mr.E said, use a ttm19 body, dye if you want, and add some padding to the body


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[TonTon]

I'll take some pics with the different bodies I currently have tonight. The TTM19 seems like a decent option, since they're readily available but I always find those necks a bit short. Surprised there aren't knock-offs of the Solo body, that one seems decent.

 

[Wor-Gar]

How tall was the actor?

Amrish Puri is 5'9'' apparently. He's shorter than Indy... by a little over 1/4 inch in 1/6th.

 

[davejames]

Yeah he was shorter, but the character was obviously made to look a lot taller and more imposing in the movie by Spielberg, so this is one time when I'd be perfectly fine going for a bigger and taller body.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Not sure where that comes from. I never got the sense that Mola was taller than Indy in the movie. He seemed at best to be about the same height if you go by the few scenes they had together -- chalice scene or bridge fight.

Here's a shot where they are in costume.

 

[LantroVe]

Not sure where that comes from. I never got the sense that Mola was taller than Indy in the movie. He seemed at best to be about the same height if you go by the few scenes they had together -- chalice scene or bridge fight.

Here's a shot where they are in costume.

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Ahhh, so he looks about average height; 5?10?/5?11?
(Google says ford is 6?1?)


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[mbuck45]

Any thoughts on what to use for shoes and arm bands?

 

[Wor-Gar]

Any thoughts on what to use for shoes and arm bands?

Those answers posted in first post on first page.

 

[davejames]

Not sure where that comes from. I never got the sense that Mola was taller than Indy in the movie. He seemed at best to be about the same height if you go by the few scenes they had together -- chalice scene or bridge fight.

Here's a shot where they are in costume.

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Maybe not taller, but I certainly never got the impression he was 4 inches shorter. Especially after scenes like this where he seemed to be looking over Indy the entire time (even if there was obviously some camera trickery going on there).

 

[The Rogster]

I’m gonna try that body I had posted when I get around to doing mine. I think that even with the arms not being sculpted, the shape is a lot better. And like you said Wor, the robes hide a lot. We’ll see how it goes.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I do believe in the grand scheme of futzing this figure, the body will figure much less in emphasis then it does here right now.