Scout Trooper (Biker Scout) Life-Sized display
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I'm in the midst of what amounts to a move -- everything either packed up or stacked up as the living space gets completely re-organized. As soon as that's done, I'll have my LD player set up again, and see what I can capture (I have the massive ILM Definitive Edition trilogy on twelve laser discs box set that came out right before the Special Editions were started).
--Jonah
Master Valon
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Real nice work, GINO! As always.
For me, it depends. For props, always weathered. When I finish a blaster or something, it just looks odd all clean. But for costumes, it depends more on what it will be for. If I troop in it, I prefer clean. In my mind, I feel like when your at a Con or parade (especially the latter), it's like your in your dress blues and all done up for the presentation. So I prefer clean. But if it's for a display piece (like your Lifesize stuff), I prefer weathered, because it's more meant to be a straight up display piece of the thing as it was in the movie. Also distressed/weathered costumes are awesome for more reenactment type stuff, and photo shoots and all that. Also for certain costumes like Sandtroopers, Tuskens, etc...where there's really no plausible way it would ever be clean.
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Pretty much my take. I look to the character to dictate the weathering. Is it someone who would take care of their kit? Or someone who'd let it go, to one extent or another? For my Royal Guard stuff -- formal robes, Stormtrooper armor, and flight gear, everything is going to be near-pristine, with only minor scuffs and scrapes and wear at attachment points and the like, as they are almost pathological in maintaining their kit. Part of the job. Ditto my Nova Trooper, same reasons. My Storm Commando (real SC, not a Shadow Scout) is going to be clean but dirty -- that is, no scrapes or dents, but mud and dirt ground in in places where it's just impossible to ever truly get out. My Fenn Shysa (Clone Wars era, and color-corrected to compensate for Marvel's crappy early-'80s coloring) is going to be dirty and scraped, though not to the extent Boba was a couple decades later. And so on.
Scouts are frustrating because there's compelling justification for both.--Jonah
Master Valon
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I agree. For instance in the arrival of the Emperor scene I could totally see them being shiny. But "in country" as you put it, it makes sense to be weathered, especially for Scouts, seeing as they spend so much time away from any garrison scouting.
Master Valon
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You're probably right that they were actually weathered in that scene, I was just using that scene as an example where, in-universe, it would make sense for them to be clean.
I'm always amazed at how much of the weathering is lost in photos. You'll dirty it up so that it looks good in person, then take a picture of it and it looks much cleaner. Then to get it to look weathered on camera it almost has to be TOO dirty.
That looks amazing Gino, outstanding job!
That looks amazing Gino, outstanding job!
rootman055
Jr Member
Top notch weathering job - great work Gino!
GINO
Sr Member
Thanks guys!
Just fyi, I was finally able to find a couple hi res pics that definitively showed all the scout troopers on the death star hanger bay for the emperor's arrival and they are indeed unweathered.
They must have filmed that scene first and then weathered them all for the endor scenes.
Both styles show up in the film so it really does come down to a personal preference clean vs dirty.
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Just fyi, I was finally able to find a couple hi res pics that definitively showed all the scout troopers on the death star hanger bay for the emperor's arrival and they are indeed unweathered.
They must have filmed that scene first and then weathered them all for the endor scenes.
Both styles show up in the film so it really does come down to a personal preference clean vs dirty.
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Awesome. That's sort of what I thought. Makes sense. All the Death Star scenes were during the studio shooting in England --first in the shooting schedule. The Crescent City shoot was the last of the regular-schedule principle photography. Plenty of time to weather the Scouts and Stormtroopers and send them to California.
--Jonah
--Jonah
cayman shen
Master Member
The weathering is the first thing I noticed--it's exceptional. I love it. Totally sells the piece. Put me FIRMLY in the weathered camp. Gorgeous work.
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