Topic: Vintage Collection Extras - NEW: updated TVC Sandtrooper

[Tamer]

Thanks for the kind comments to both of you and for the fp, Tamer!
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Your welcome. I enjoy seeing your updates.

[Blizzard Force]

GRAND ADMIRAL THRAWN

One of my absolute favorite characters....regardless of whether you're calling it EU or "Legends" now... In Germany they produced an absolutely brilliant audio drama of the Thrawn trilogy (14 CDs total, featuring all the original German voice actors from the OT movies) which still is a favorite of mine on long car trips...

The figure in the original Hasbro 3,75" figure, I removed the Ysalamiri because it's not on the cardback picture either. No worries, it's being kept safely and animal-friendly on a small tree in my bits box...

[Tamer]

Wow, awesome. Looks great on the front page.

[Stronox]

This is all very very cool stuff!! Love the cards! Keep up the good work!

[mr.Jedi1977]

Love it ! Wondering if you have more form  Heir to the Empire coming soon?

[Blizzard Force]

Thanks a lot people...for the comments as well as for the fp, Tamer!

At the moment I'm concentrating on carding more figures...I don't have enough time for ambitious conversions/repaints due to family/house/work (in no particular order ). I'll do a bit of customizing/repainting as long as it's necessary for the figure, but there's just so much (fun things) to do, so little time...

Love it ! Wondering if you have more form  Heir to the Empire coming soon?

I'd say that's a pretty safe bet. I've already finished a few more designs, hope to have the next figure(s) done this week...

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It's one of the (if not the) most iconic and important scenes in the original trilogy....and as any other Star Wars collector, I have a more than ample stack of Vader figures (Hasbro sure shelled out a lot of them over the years )...so why not kill two birds with one stone?



(Black Series ESB Vader on custom cardback)

[Tamer]

Vader sure does look good on our front page. Lovely card.

[PROVOST]

Vader sure does look good on our front page. Lovely card.

Agreed 100%,I follow on Facebook and it made me log in to comment.


OP - awesome skills!!!!!!!!

[mr.Jedi1977]

That's a great card ! I wonder why they never used that picture for the vader figure back then Was the biggest moment in in Esb. Well in any event you made a fantastic card !

[Luke Sprywalker]

Hello, I have really enjoyed catching up on your thread here! Really nice project and loving the custom figures and really loving the vintage cards!

[Starchaser]

The cards look beautiful. You do fantastic work!

[Blizzard Force]

Vader sure does look good on our front page. Lovely card.

Thanks Tamer, especially for the fp and the social media share!

Agreed 100%,I follow on Facebook and it made me log in to comment.

OP - awesome skills!!!!!!!!

Wow, thanks for that...really appreciate it!

That's a great card ! I wonder why they never used that picture for the vader figure back then Was the biggest moment in in Esb. Well in any event you made a fantastic card !

Thanks Artie! Me too, would have been a cool thing for Kenner and/or Hasbro to use new pictures from the movies for the repacks of "older" figures on later movies cards (ESB / ROTJ). I think there are only five or six ROTJ cards where they did this (new pics, although not all of the pics are from ROTJ). ESB and/or ROTJ specific Stormtroopers, Imperial Navy Troopers, C-3POs etc. Hmmm......I think I just had an idea for some more cardbacks...

Hello, I have really enjoyed catching up on your thread here! Really nice project and loving the custom figures and really loving the vintage cards!

Thanks a lot for the support!

The cards look beautiful. You do fantastic work!

Thanks for that!

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...ah, the beauty of hindsight. I could have thought of this day a bit earlier to shoot a pic of my custom 12backs...or some more Star Wars figures...but alas, I spent my time working on two more ESB figures. Well, happy Birthday to Star Wars, anyway... 

So now, let's switch over to the icy wastes of Hoth, where Rebels and Imperials are battling it out in a fierce fight. I thought it fitting to complete these two together somehow...

ESB - Rebel Soldier (Hoth Battle Gear)


Legacy Rebel Hoth Soldier, new head and modified helmet/scarf combo, artillery remote from the "Search for Luke Skywalker" figure set, partially repainted
Real happy I found the original source pic for Kenner's vintage Rebel Soldier, as well. That way I could "demirror" it (the Grenades are now on the right side, literally) for my cardback...

ESB - Snowtrooper Commander


Black Series figure, modified helmet (discs), partially repainted (especially gloss varnish for helmet and armor)

[Tamer]

Wow, these two new ones look great too. Off to share.

[Starchaser]

These look great! I especially like the custom modifications to the Rebel Trooper.

[Tamer]

Had to get that Hoth Rebel on the front page.