Unboxed today! Earlier than expected and, wow! He’s very impressive on the shelf. He definitely benefits from being lit artificially rather than full sunlight (much like the original puppet I suppose).
Anyway, picture dump!
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Unboxed today! Earlier than expected and, wow! He’s very impressive on the shelf. He definitely benefits from being lit artificially rather than full sunlight (much like the original puppet I suppose).
Anyway, picture dump!
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Unboxed today! Earlier than expected and, wow! He’s very impressive on the shelf. He definitely benefits from being lit artificially rather than full sunlight (much like the original puppet I suppose).
Anyway, picture dump!
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Nice pics, SSM! That's the right kind of lighting for Jabba too.
Here are a few WIP pics of my "smaller custom arms" project. This is all pretty rough, with just some green paint splashed on. I ran out of sculpt putty so his left upper arm is still a bit thin.
The thing about Jabba is if you really look at the ref pics, he's a bit like a t-rex - surprisingly small arms (though his upper arms do get quite chunky) and hands that aren't too much larger than a human gloved hand. That's why I felt like the old 2007 Jabba arms looked more in proportion.
Because they are bent, these custom posed arms are about 50% newly sculpted (the rest is a cast of the old arms,) but I'm doing a second pair of arms that's basically a full cast of the old Jabba arms that will be his resting-on-his-belly arms. I did a cast of the stock SSC shoulder joining area so these arms attach in the exact same way as the stock Jabba arms (they have an embedded magnet) - the new arms are pretty much the same feel and weight as the old/stock arms.
Sorry about the flat/bright lighting - Jabba and I have been through some trying times in the past few days so he's not in mood lighting position.
For me these custom arms fix the main issue I had with the figure - that the stock arms made where his upper torso meets his lower torso too wide, throwing off the overall proportions. This seems to thin the area where his shoulders are and makes him - to my eye - seem less "squashed down" - his upper torso seems slightly slimmer at the base and more verical.
Nice pics, SSM! That's the right kind of lighting for Jabba too.
Here are a few WIP pics of my "smaller custom arms" project. This is all pretty rough, with just some green paint splashed on. I ran out of sculpt putty so his left upper arm is still a bit thin.
The thing about Jabba is if you really look at the ref pics, he's a bit like a t-rex - surprisingly small arms (though his upper arms do get quite chunky) and hands that aren't too much larger than a human gloved hand. That's why I felt like the old 2007 Jabba arms looked more in proportion.
Because they are bent, these custom posed arms are about 50% newly sculpted (the rest is a cast of the old arms,) but I'm doing a second pair of arms that's basically a full cast of the old Jabba arms that will be his resting-on-his-belly arms. I did a cast of the stock SSC shoulder joining area so these arms attach in the exact same way as the stock Jabba arms (they have an embedded magnet) - the new arms are pretty much the same feel and weight as the old/stock arms.
Sorry about the flat/bright lighting - Jabba and I have been through some trying times in the past few days so he's not in mood lighting position.
For me these custom arms fix the main issue I had with the figure - that the stock arms made where his upper torso meets his lower torso too wide, throwing off the overall proportions. This seems to thin the area where his shoulders are and makes him - to my eye - seem less "squashed down" - his upper torso seems slightly slimmer at the base and more verical.
Congrats Slikkerias - just be super careful pulling out the pieces. The Salacious heads are packaged in a somewhat unusual way.
And interesting on the first over-1000 number I've seen. So they made over 1000 of this. I know the old Jabba was a much higher run (like 4000 I think) but that was long ago in a WAY more limited 1/6 scale landscape. The presumed 1500 (or 2000?) is a pretty high number for this in the current climate, especially at the sky-high pricepoint.
Yeah, when I got it I posted that I could easily (and completely) fit sealed inside the shipper box and I'm 6' tall. It's by far the largest 1/6 scale shipper I've ever seen. I would shudder to think what this thing would cost to ship at a retail walk-up counter vs a commercial account.
