GubernatorFan wrote: Stryker2011 wrote:Looks good. Like you, I’m so stuck on OT Raiders that it’s hard to get past the overly clean look of the Mando versions.
Agreed, while I realize mine is not the genuine figure (besides some of the accessories I did not pick up, I also don't employ any padding on the body -- largely lest it impede articulation), I'm slightly underwhelmed, probably because subconsciously I'm attached to the slightly different OT look. And unless I'm mistaken, the Sideshow version got that better (naturally, since that is what it was going for), and I am extremely impressed by what TheBooBomb was able to do with the Hasbro version. But it's good enough for now -- and never a grail character for me anyway.
The original designs are so classic, and instilled in my brain, that I knew changing at least one of my Mando Tuskens was going to be essential.
I ordered one of Cocoboloboy's outer robes before he started offering the inners, but when he showed photos of the figure upgraded with the full set I started to fashion something myself.
I took the inner robe from the 1990s Kenner Obi-Wan, put it on backwards and started cutting excess material away until it looked OT-like. I coloured it with a wash of acrylic paint, which gave it a grubbier appearance.
I originally planned to keep the second Mando Tusken as stock, representing a different tribe. However, the inner robe fashioned being like a dress rather than a wrap bothered me.
While searching for photos of ANH Tuskens I found a selection showing a screen used costume on display. One of them looked like they'd used the outer robe as an inner one, wrapped over with the belt fastened around it:
It corresponded to the look used for the bantha riders in ANH:
I tried it with the Mando robe, and it works for the upper half, but not so well for the lower as it's too short and not full enough:
So I put Tusken
#2 into the background behind some Jawas, so only the better half is on show: