These look even better than before -- great work, I'm impressed!
And the photos are gorgeous...definitely merits being your new avatar.
And the photos are gorgeous...definitely merits being your new avatar.
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GubernatorFan wrote:Thank you very much, on both counts.
Guess what is about to arrive: the HT ROTJ Stormtrooper. So more content along these lines coming up soon.
Stryker2011 wrote:Mine should be shipping out tomorrow. Ordered thru Timewalker; received an email earlier asking if I cared that the HT shipper and box art had been damaged (seems the brain-dead idiots at Sideshow sent them a handful of figures separately and all of the boxes were damaged — since those cheap dicks don’t double box — and they normally send them in a large box altogether). TW had to go through all the boxes to make sure the contents were undamaged. Since I’m not a box collector, I told them it was okay to send. I hope, however, they are able to get replacements for any of the others — that’s just bad form. Whoever’s in charge of that at Sideshow should be fired.
GubernatorFan wrote:Stryker2011 wrote:Mine should be shipping out tomorrow. Ordered thru Timewalker; received an email earlier asking if I cared that the HT shipper and box art had been damaged (seems the brain-dead idiots at Sideshow sent them a handful of figures separately and all of the boxes were damaged — since those cheap dicks don’t double box — and they normally send them in a large box altogether). TW had to go through all the boxes to make sure the contents were undamaged. Since I’m not a box collector, I told them it was okay to send. I hope, however, they are able to get replacements for any of the others — that’s just bad form. Whoever’s in charge of that at Sideshow should be fired.
Hmmm, that is unfortunate, although like you I'm not too worried about the boxes themselves, as long as the figures are ok. I ordered through Timewalker too, but haven't received this notice or a shipment notification. Do all US stores get them via Sideshow?
Stryker2011 wrote:Yep. They are the N. America distributor.
davidd wrote:Cool figs!
Glad to see the Sand Troopers not slaughtering on sight for a change! I always figured that, under the imposing armor, a lot of 'em were pretty decent guys.
Years ago I was considering attempting a photo-story using 3-3/4 inch sand troopers. I thought the Storm Troopers didn't get a fair shake in pop culture, what with all the jokes about their lousy shooting and general incompetence. Remember, Obi Wan, in the original movie, held them in fairly high regard for their professionalism and competence, commenting on it in regard to the way they disabled the Jawa's sand crawler. I thought a storyline following the perils faced by sand troopers and storm troopers in which they were not treated like throwaway cannon fodder would be kind of interesting.
The small-scale story never happened. It would be much more interesting to attempt something with highly detailed 1/6 figures - but I know you have put a lot of time and effort and research in to customizing your trooper figs to get them to look this good.
So I appreciate you showing us these "day in the life of an Empire trooper" vignettes. They're pretty fun!
shovelchop81 wrote:Nice bashes! Two leaders is going to cause problems... that poor enlisted guy is going to be confused as hell! ;-)
Can you remind me the pecking order in terms of pauldron colors (Original Trilogy only, please)? wrote:
shovelchop81 wrote:Sure! Orange is captain/leader, white is sergeant, black is enlisted, red is scorch/flametrooper, yellow is artillery. I think there's a grey one too that might be lieutenant?
GubernatorFan wrote:shovelchop81 wrote:Sure! Orange is captain/leader, white is sergeant, black is enlisted, red is scorch/flametrooper, yellow is artillery. I think there's a grey one too that might be lieutenant?
Thank you. So, for my purposes, I'm going to leave the Hot Toys sandtrooper (raised brow -- hate that, but I suppose it was an effort to be movie accurate) with the orange pauldron on, and give the other orange-pauldroned trooper a white pauldron instead. Poor guy in black pauldron, lowest on the totem pole...
shovelchop81 wrote:Some useless information for you: often the bottom head on a totem pole is the most venerated god as it is the largest...read that somewhere lol.
Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked them. With so few creatures on that planet, I'm sure glad they didn't escalate.Theboo-bomb wrote:Those guys look great and look, they made a new friend!
Stryker2011 wrote:Pretty cool. Knowing your affinity for the Empire, it doesn’t surprise me to see them being decent and having a peaceful camaraderie with what most consider “bad guys” — at least until the Mandalorian show gave us a different perspective.
I think it is an image I found on the internet and had it printed out on matte-poly paper (to have less glare). Ideally, there should be more space at the bottom so you can have your figures tread over that, but there either wasn't or I had cropped it away. So in the last photos I'm using some sand sheets for model builders.skywalkersaga wrote:Totally random question, but where did you get that sand backdrop? Or did you print it out yourself?
GubernatorFan wrote:skywalkersaga wrote:Totally random question, but where did you get that sand backdrop? Or did you print it out yourself?
If you like it, I can try to find the digital file and send it to you.
skywalkersaga wrote:Oh, that would be great, thank you!
Thank you very much, Ephiane, and nice to see you back. Glad you liked them.Ephiane wrote:Great Scene and Troopers. Funny little story. . They looks like very good with the weathering. Where´s the Droids ! Scene ?
I have finally located the image file I used. It prints (unless resized) as 37.55 x 21 in (95.38 x 53.34 cm). Does this work for you?skywalkersaga wrote:GubernatorFan wrote:skywalkersaga wrote:Totally random question, but where did you get that sand backdrop? Or did you print it out yourself?
If you like it, I can try to find the digital file and send it to you.
Oh, that would be great, thank you!
GubernatorFan wrote:I have finally located the image file I used. It prints (unless resized) as 37.55 x 21 in (95.38 x 53.34 cm). Does this work for you?skywalkersaga wrote:GubernatorFan wrote:skywalkersaga wrote:Totally random question, but where did you get that sand backdrop? Or did you print it out yourself?
If you like it, I can try to find the digital file and send it to you.
Oh, that would be great, thank you!
No problem, just sent it by e-mail due to size. Hope it works for you.skywalkersaga wrote:
That should be alright, thanks so much!
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