Sandtroopers (The New Batch)

Hey guys. I just finished doing some re-work on my Sandtroopers.

Here's an older photo I posted a while back.




I toned down on the weathering this time around. I also added a black pauldron trooper.









Revised Sandtrooper Sergeant

Revised Sandtrooper Officer

The weathering looks awesome. How did you do it? Mind sharing some tips or tutorial??

Excellent--- are those all done with Medicom bodies? Are you buying one of the new Sandtroopers (or a couple) to add to your growing squadron?

awesome. simply awesome.

Those are damn fine.

Looks nice

amazing work. so beautiful

DarthNeil said:

Excellent--- are those all done with Medicom bodies? Are you buying one of the new Sandtroopers (or a couple) to add to your growing squadron?

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I think TK uses mostly customized Marmits for his Sandtroopers.
It's one hell of a collection!

Yeah, those look like Marmits to me. Damn inspiring, TK0083. You're one of the ST gods.

Mortar Conn said:

Yeah, those look like Marmits to me. Damn inspiring, TK0083. You're one of the ST gods.

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Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You all are much too kind I'm just happy to share them.

KamenGuyver said:

The weathering looks awesome. How did you do it? Mind sharing some tips or tutorial??

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The weathering was done using several washes of this fine product from Gunze Sangyo:


I used thinner to remove excess paint; moreso in some areas.

abake said:

I think TK uses mostly customized Marmits for his Sandtroopers.
It's one hell of a collection!

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Abake and Mortar Conn are right. These are Marmit Action Figure Kits.

Here's a pic showing the Dragon figure I use for a base body (Alexander the Great) along with Sideshow's Bib Fortuna for scale.

I wish Marmit still sold these. I really like the look of their helmets compared to Medicom's.

well, they are always on ebay (and always cheaper than Medicoms)....

Those are awesome, great work! I have always have a soft spot for the "Sandies".

excellent excellent work!

And i love the totally 'natural' human poses. They never look like toys. Good work sir

JustinLuck said:

I wish Marmit still sold these. I really like the look of their helmets compared to Medicom's.

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I agree. I think the Medicom Stormtroopers are meant to be RETURN OF THE JEDI troopers (just as Medi's Vader and Luke are ROTJ), and the Marmits are ANH troopers. There's a slight difference to the helmets they made for the films, and after a while you can start to tell the difference.

Here's how cool the Marmits were: I did some research, and discovered that in ANH, there were TWO types of trooper helmets made. A hero version (I think they made 6) for close-ups, and a stunt version (produced en masse) for all the background guys. You can tell the difference in the lenses of the eyes, and the shape of the "frown" (as the costumers call it), that horizontal gash of black and gray across the helmet's face. Well, when I read all this, I checked with my Marmits to see how accurate they were. Well, the original Marmit stormtrooper has the ANH hero helmet. The Marmit sandtroopers all have the ANH stunt helmet.

How's THAT for authenticity?

This guy's sandtrooper customs are the best I've seen, BTW. Amazing!

nice!

:chew

These look so good I just bought one on ebay.

I hope that weathering paint you used is still available at hobby stores. I'm gonna try my hand at dirtying up this figure when I get it.

Is the Dragon body that much better than the body from Marmit? Better poses?

these look SUPER cool; thanks for sharing!!!!