The Emperor's Death Dio With Darth Vader, lots of lights etc..NOW WITH UV TORCH!!

Build thread here
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t7715-three-new-darth-vader-figures-last-tweaks-to-emperor-s-death-dio-dio-builds-for-them-1-bespin-gantry-scene-2-force-lightning-killing-emperor-scene-3-meditation-chamber-scene

Only lasts a couple of seconds in the film but took weeks+ to make in 1/6! LOL. Such an important part in SW lore that I wanted to make my own version of it, tried the skull and bones type effect but it didn't work the way I wanted it to i.e. glowing from the inside rather than just painted on top as the CGI looks like to me. I could have gone a bit more purple with the effects but that illuminates very poorly, there is a lot of UV reactive materials and paint involved in the build also 'glow in the dark' paint, UV LED's and EL-Wire. Explaining how he/they were made like the helmet and lightning etc.. is too complicated to explain here, if you'd like to know please visit the build thread; it's 7 pages so you might want to just scan through the pics!

SCENE REPLICATED



VADER ON HIS OWN



































DARTH VADER THROWING THE EMPEROR DOWN THE SHAFT, KILLING HIM AND HIMSELF DUE TO THE FORCE LIGHTNING IN THE PROCESS TO SAVE HIS SON LUKE.





















MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE SOME PICS WITH A UV TORCH TOO, NEED TO WAIT UNTIL IT'S DARK THOUGH.

Absolutely incredible! I'm beyond impressed by your ingenuity and how you pulled it off! The lit up photos look fantastic!

Holy (censored)! This turned out awesome! You, Sir, are a genius! Absolutely incredible. Love the effect you managed to pull off. There aren’t enough adjectives to describe how impressive your work is on all of your builds.

I see it is now done. And what a glory it is! I realize it is going to be static, but all your effort and ingenuity paid off big time. Bravo!

skywalkersaga wrote:Absolutely incredible! I'm beyond impressed by your ingenuity and how you pulled it off! The lit up photos look fantastic!

Stryker2012 wrote:Holy (censored)! This turned out awesome! You, Sir, are a genius! Absolutely incredible. Love the effect you managed to pull off. There aren’t enough adjectives to describe how impressive your work is on all of your builds.

GubernatorFan wrote:I see it is now done. And what a glory it is! I realize it is going to be static, but all your effort and ingenuity paid off big time. Bravo!

Visisonor wrote:

Thank you everyone! Something still bugs me about them, maybe the lack of purple? Not going to mess with it though, took far too much effort to get them up there safely!!
I've taken more pics but with the UV torch as well this time.

ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE SCENE



JUST UV TORCH







UV TORCH, LED'S AND EL-WIRE LIT UP.









AND NO UV TORCH... MIGHT HAVE TO BUILD A UV TORCH INTO THE DISPLAY...

Holy cow that is amazing!! The heroic act. The moment of redemption. Beautifully captured!

Diana wrote:Holy cow that is amazing!! The heroic act. The moment of redemption. Beautifully captured!

Thank you Diana! I'm so glad you like it as you were so excited at the beginning so I didn't want to disappoint! Cheers for the encouragement too.

These UV photos are very effective. Well done!

That Force lightning is just superb, the uv effect so bright…..really crowns off all your hard work! Incredible persistence on all the aspects here and what an impact - very cool. Hope you have room to give this a worthy display!

I keep coming back to this, you definitely made an homage worthy of the iconic scene.

GubernatorFan wrote:These UV photos are very effective. Well done!

Thanks! Makes me want to build a UV light into the stand.

Tanzenwolfe wrote:That Force lightning is just superb, the uv effect so bright…..really crowns off all your hard work! Incredible persistence on all the aspects here and what an impact - very cool.  Hope you have room to give this a worthy display!

Thank you! Well he's kind of stuck where he is, best place I could find for him to be honest, top shelf and kind of the 'Alpha & Omega' of the OT films having 1/4 scale Ben & Vader fighting behind him killing the Emperor...a sort of 2nd circle is complete?

skywalkersaga wrote:I keep coming back to this, you definitely made an homage worthy of the iconic scene.  

Thank you so much SWS! I tend to look at it and 'I did that much work for just that?!' lol, so your reaffirmation is completely welcome!

Very cool work! It is always amazing to see how your projects progress and look better and better!      

The end result is awesome. Even without the lights the colors used really works to illuminate it well.

Theboo-bomb wrote:The end result is awesome. Even without the lights the colors used really works to illuminate it well.

Thanks TBB! Great to hear as they were chosen very carefully to give the effect of electricity with the light off as he'll be displayed like that most of the time.

Randam Hajile wrote:Very cool work! It is always amazing to see how your projects progress and look better and better!      

Thank you!!

Super cool stuff.

Looks awesome to see it all finished up and lit up. It's like a scene cut from the movie. Bravo.