Hey there folks...
Long time no update, things are FINALLY settling back into normality in Vaderville (see what I did there?
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Anyway...
Its been another sweep of re-tooling going on on a large number of areas such as the capes, robes and suit details such as belt and chest box accuracy which, after having it pointed out by none other that the Prowse himself, have been re-tooled, detailed and are now being cast (images bellow)
The new metal sections of the chest box, machined in aluminium and cast in high quality resin (seen on image of belt/chest boxes bellow)
Comparison between old and new chest boxes (New on left, old on right) and the new belt boxes (Larger ones are the new, accurate to size and detail)
On top of this, an Image of the new prototype cape, the most recent ones before this were not falling properly compared to older ones that Hurricane had done, but after much futzing with material he has one that falls right.
New domes cast form a new mold, the old one began to give complete un-usable results so the new one was made...
And finally, the new cape chain...
THIS little piece of pain has been causing an awful lot of annoyance. Used to be time when Hurricane would use a scaled metal/plastic chain that wasn't an exact match but a close approximation...after that went the way of the Dodo he decided to make his own, this result, cast in a flexible rubber/resin (not sure myself) is as close to the film prop as possible without a Farnsworth shrinking ray...
More to come as I get them!
Doc
