Official Sideshow 1/6 ANH Darth Vader PHOTO Thread

[Wor-Gar]

The right tusk appears black in publicity stills and movie stills.

Just add that to your sig, Sean, so you can stop answering this question.

 

[JGouse0498]

Just add that to your sig, Sean, so you can stop answering this question.

Then people will just keep asking him why he put that in his sig. It's a lose-lose!!

 

[Coorectghosting]

p.s is there a particular reason why only one side of his mask/tusk has the silver dot? is it not a quality control thing? or is it meant to be like that? thanx for any info!

let your eyes be the judge

 

[JGouse0498]

Story seems to be that the silver rubbed off at some point in the filming. Since movies are shot in non-linear fashion, the missing paint appears sporadically in the movie. It all depends on when scenes were filmed.

 

[Coorectghosting]

No it isn't sporadically. Nearly every time.

 

[JGouse0498]

No it isn't sporadically. Nearly every time.

OK, let me rephrase...it doesn't all appear in one cluster. It's dispersed--even if it's the majority of the time.

 

[farrrs]

thanx for that info guys! i was dissapointed when i first saw the one silver dot as i thought one of the silver tips had broken off mine! but if everyones is like that then im fine with it and can easily just paint a silver tip myself if i chose! still cant belive how big he is though compared to my HT dutch,iron man and predator!

 

[MaulFan]

It most definitely was missing paint a number of times. Sometimes, it didn't matter so much because light from the set would catch on the forms of the tusk and leave enough highlight to almost look as if it was painted, but you can also seeing looking at those shots, the painted one is significantly birghter.

 

[MaulFan]

 

[JGouse0498]

Woo-hoo!!!

It's MaulFan and the Attack of the Hi-Res Evidence!!!

 

[Coorectghosting]

lol. Mine were taken from a 1080p version. i just cropped it down to Vader headshots

 

[Gino]

Hey guys.

On the screen used ANH helmet, but tusks are machined aluminum.
Vader's right tusk (left if you are looking at him) has a black paint wash over it. It is not completely solid black, more like the black partially rubbed off.
It was an intentional design choice and appeared throughout the entire movie.

In ESB and ROTJ, both tusks are bare aluminum.


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[Coorectghosting]

thanks. i'm glad to know exactly what the deal was with that now!

 

[MaulFan]

 

[joda76]

Cool collage Maul!

 

[OSCORP]

Yup very nice!

 

[jkno]

Now that would be cool!

Oh yeah

 

[Darren Carnall]

here's a couple of front-on shots for those who asked.

Laying down on my desk:

Standing up:

Natural light (well, daylight fluorescent desk lamp i work by.... but no flash I mean)

And with flash, so you can see everything

Raising the shoulder armour, and lowering/tilting back the dome restricts the head articulation a bit... but there's enough for virtually all Vader poses I'd guess. Certainly enough for me

 

[shocktrooper_au]

That's perfect Darren!

 

[Dorgmal Snow]

I have them in a bag at the new house. Keeping them until new Vader arrive then I'm going to seed them in the garden, maybe they'll grow into full size Vader figures

JKO, I am sure you will be able to grow em! mini Vaders all over the garden!!

Loads of forum folks will buy the parts I am sure!!