Star Lord GLOVES - Does anyone have the Hot Toys figure?
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I finally got the prototype ready! I'll take pics and post the price and shipping fees in a while with all of you in the first run, meanwhile, here's a teaser pic:
GCarnevale
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Danny, once again amazing.
VilleLeskinen
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Just a reminder, this is not a sales thread. Those take place under Classifieds, thanks
Looking Awesome Danny 
Im subscribing to this thread.
Im subscribing to this thread.
Hey guys! I finally opened up a run, I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to post the link here but it should be easy to look it up clicking my avatar and going to my threads. I only signed up those of you who explicitly stated that they want one but any of you will get a spot and a discount (again I'm not sure I'm allowed to state quantities) as my way to say thank you for helping me out.
Yeah thanks mate, I know this is just research.
I'm checking if I can do it without bumping up the price a lot. If I can I definitely will.
Yeah thanks mate, I know this is just research.
I'm checking if I can do it without bumping up the price a lot. If I can I definitely will.
Westies14
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Hi Danny,
I understand that stamping/forming or doing a raised screen print would affect the costs quite a bit. I'd be interested to know by how much - perhaps that could be an option for people willing to pay the difference? I'd be interested in a truly accurate pair.
I hope this is taken as the constructive criticism it's intended to be: You've got a thread full of the best reference I've seen yet on these gloves, and you've been encouraging people to share detailed images. They've adjusted the contrast to show more details and it seemed like you were really excited to get these right. Your leathermaker's prototype looks a bit like he was forced to recreate them from memory though. There's a whole leather panel missing inside the thumb. The too-large checkered pattern is applied indiscriminately, showing up in places where it doesn't belong and absent where we should see it. Interesting shapes, like the scalloped overlay with the two raised rectangles, are heavily simplified. Even if stamping is cost-prohibitive, why shouldn't he want to stitch a narrow channel along the upper fingers instead of this wider blob shape? Couldn't the knuckles be cut and stitched as slits across instead of rectangular windows? Would it cost more to use rivets in the wrist strap instead of brads/buttons?
I suppose what I'm asking is couldn't these gloves be simplified to reduce expensive processes without sacrificing more accurate broad strokes?
I mean no offense. I was really excited to see how these came out. Even knowing some things would be left off, I'd hoped to pick up a pair to alter slightly and add details. As they are, they'd need to be deconstructed too much to create an accurate pair. Knowing this is a prototype, might anything be different in the production run?
I think it's okay to link to the sales thread from here and vise versa. You just can't conduct sales from the non-junkyard forum threads.
I understand that stamping/forming or doing a raised screen print would affect the costs quite a bit. I'd be interested to know by how much - perhaps that could be an option for people willing to pay the difference? I'd be interested in a truly accurate pair.
I hope this is taken as the constructive criticism it's intended to be: You've got a thread full of the best reference I've seen yet on these gloves, and you've been encouraging people to share detailed images. They've adjusted the contrast to show more details and it seemed like you were really excited to get these right. Your leathermaker's prototype looks a bit like he was forced to recreate them from memory though. There's a whole leather panel missing inside the thumb. The too-large checkered pattern is applied indiscriminately, showing up in places where it doesn't belong and absent where we should see it. Interesting shapes, like the scalloped overlay with the two raised rectangles, are heavily simplified. Even if stamping is cost-prohibitive, why shouldn't he want to stitch a narrow channel along the upper fingers instead of this wider blob shape? Couldn't the knuckles be cut and stitched as slits across instead of rectangular windows? Would it cost more to use rivets in the wrist strap instead of brads/buttons?
I suppose what I'm asking is couldn't these gloves be simplified to reduce expensive processes without sacrificing more accurate broad strokes?
I mean no offense. I was really excited to see how these came out. Even knowing some things would be left off, I'd hoped to pick up a pair to alter slightly and add details. As they are, they'd need to be deconstructed too much to create an accurate pair. Knowing this is a prototype, might anything be different in the production run?
I think it's okay to link to the sales thread from here and vise versa. You just can't conduct sales from the non-junkyard forum threads.
Thanks man, again, this is just the first prototype for the gloves. If you remember in the star lord coat run the first prototype was way further from the original one than the final product. This is because the first prototype is always used just to experiment with different techniques and materials to know how screen accurate we can get without making it impossible to buy. As the first try tho I think it comes closer to screen accuracy than my long coat first try, I'm sure this will be as (if not more) screen accurate as my coat.
Danny
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