First of all, this is about a Neo from the first Matrix movie.
With sunohc's new Neo head to be released in a couple of months, and headplay's head soon to be released, I decided to finally start making my own Neo from the first movie, from the lobby scene to be exact.
Since I'm probably not the only one interested in this, I thought it might be a good idea to start a new thread about this with reference images, suggestions what items work best etc. Everybody is very welcome to add suggestions etc., to make the best version possible from our creative pool.
I took a lot of reference images from my Blu-ray today, concentrating mostly on the weapon harness/belts:
Some without the coat, concentrating more on the holsters and harness around the shoulders:
And at last a close up of the boots (blurry shot, but it shows the straps pretty well):
Now onto the parts:
I'm starting with a Truetype TTM16 Advanced for the body.
For the coat the only thing I found, and I think works perfectly, is the Triad Toys coat.
For the shirt, I'm not sure yet if I should get the Triad Toys full body suit, or get a seperate black long sleeve shirt.
The pants are starting to get a bit trickier. As you can see in the reference images, the pants Neo is wearing have a cargo pocket only on his left side. Haven't found one like this on ebay. If nobody has any suggestions I'll probably just get some without the pocket.
The boots are one of the hardest parts IMO, I haven't found any that are perfect, not even any that could work with some slight modifications. The Hot Toys Bootleg Neo figure from 2001 has accurate boots, but I don't know how to ahold of a pair of those.
For the harness I haven't found any suitable parts yet, but I think this should be fairly easy to piece together. Anybody know where to get straps like the ones seen in the reference shots? Another thing I noticed, in the close-up shots, the belts have this ribbed "utility belt texture". In all the shots from further away, they look more like a shiny leather type though.
The weapons are easy to get, there are a lot of possibilities on ebay. Here is a list of all weapons used in the movie/by Neo: https://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Matrix,_The I'll probably concentrate on the Berettas, a pair of MP5s and an M16.
For further reference, here's a version elvis1976 made in 2009, which is pretty much perfect IMO: https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2092620&postcount=608
Long story short, if anybody has already made a Neo, has started making one, is interested in starting one or simply wants to help out, feel free to chime in. If we all help eachother out I think we should all get a very cool and accurate Neo together.
Of course I'll post shots of mine as it progresses.
With sunohc's new Neo head to be released in a couple of months, and headplay's head soon to be released, I decided to finally start making my own Neo from the first movie, from the lobby scene to be exact.
Since I'm probably not the only one interested in this, I thought it might be a good idea to start a new thread about this with reference images, suggestions what items work best etc. Everybody is very welcome to add suggestions etc., to make the best version possible from our creative pool.
I took a lot of reference images from my Blu-ray today, concentrating mostly on the weapon harness/belts:
Some without the coat, concentrating more on the holsters and harness around the shoulders:
And at last a close up of the boots (blurry shot, but it shows the straps pretty well):
Now onto the parts:
I'm starting with a Truetype TTM16 Advanced for the body.
For the coat the only thing I found, and I think works perfectly, is the Triad Toys coat.
For the shirt, I'm not sure yet if I should get the Triad Toys full body suit, or get a seperate black long sleeve shirt.
The pants are starting to get a bit trickier. As you can see in the reference images, the pants Neo is wearing have a cargo pocket only on his left side. Haven't found one like this on ebay. If nobody has any suggestions I'll probably just get some without the pocket.
The boots are one of the hardest parts IMO, I haven't found any that are perfect, not even any that could work with some slight modifications. The Hot Toys Bootleg Neo figure from 2001 has accurate boots, but I don't know how to ahold of a pair of those.
For the harness I haven't found any suitable parts yet, but I think this should be fairly easy to piece together. Anybody know where to get straps like the ones seen in the reference shots? Another thing I noticed, in the close-up shots, the belts have this ribbed "utility belt texture". In all the shots from further away, they look more like a shiny leather type though.
The weapons are easy to get, there are a lot of possibilities on ebay. Here is a list of all weapons used in the movie/by Neo: https://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Matrix,_The I'll probably concentrate on the Berettas, a pair of MP5s and an M16.
For further reference, here's a version elvis1976 made in 2009, which is pretty much perfect IMO: https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2092620&postcount=608
Long story short, if anybody has already made a Neo, has started making one, is interested in starting one or simply wants to help out, feel free to chime in. If we all help eachother out I think we should all get a very cool and accurate Neo together.
Of course I'll post shots of mine as it progresses.
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