darthskellington
Dark Lord of the Typos
I picked up the Modal Nodes tin set the other day. It's an exclusive to Walmart. The tins are pretty cool, and it's nice to enlarge my Cantina Band (which up until now consisted of one member ).
The new band memebrs are slightly different from the earlier release...better in some ways...worse in others. The original figures had all blakc outfits....with grayish pants. A plastic "poncho", for lack of a better term went over the basic figure. The hands and heads were a peach color with a rosy overspray. The instrumens were a solid brown/bronze plastic.
The new figures have three-color intruemnts..which are awesome. They are also rubber-banded to their hands....another plus. The outfits consist of a white undershirt....black overshirt.....and a black soft-goods outer jacket. The jacket is shorter than the plastic poncho...and feature a collar that sticks up. While it is an interesting concept and probably more movie-accurate....I don't think it looks very good. I know Hasbro thinks soft goods make for better selling features.....but they just don't look real. You can't take a piece of fabric and make it look to-scale with a figure that small. It's be kinda like taking a big wool blanket....stitching it together with leather cord, and putting it on a mannequin....expecting it to look like a shirt. But I digress.
The other feature that is different is a dark orange color wash on the head and hands. This has a nice effect of enhancing th sculpt details. However....it makes for some messy and blotchy paint jobs on their heads. I like the air-brushed overspray better myself.
So....I now have 6 band members.....only one shy of a full band.
For those wondering..the band members are:
Figrin D'an......band leader and kloo horn player (long horn with curved mouthpiece)
Doikk N'ats...plays the long straight horn
Ikabel G'ont....plays the short straight horn....the fanfar
Lirin Car'n...plays backup Kloo horn....he was at a table gambling in the cantina
Nalan Cheel...plays the bandfilll....the box horn that hangs around his neck
Tech M'or...plays the omni box....the box with the circular radiator thing on top
Tedn Dahai....also plays the short horn.....the fanfar
The new band memebrs are slightly different from the earlier release...better in some ways...worse in others. The original figures had all blakc outfits....with grayish pants. A plastic "poncho", for lack of a better term went over the basic figure. The hands and heads were a peach color with a rosy overspray. The instrumens were a solid brown/bronze plastic.
The new figures have three-color intruemnts..which are awesome. They are also rubber-banded to their hands....another plus. The outfits consist of a white undershirt....black overshirt.....and a black soft-goods outer jacket. The jacket is shorter than the plastic poncho...and feature a collar that sticks up. While it is an interesting concept and probably more movie-accurate....I don't think it looks very good. I know Hasbro thinks soft goods make for better selling features.....but they just don't look real. You can't take a piece of fabric and make it look to-scale with a figure that small. It's be kinda like taking a big wool blanket....stitching it together with leather cord, and putting it on a mannequin....expecting it to look like a shirt. But I digress.
The other feature that is different is a dark orange color wash on the head and hands. This has a nice effect of enhancing th sculpt details. However....it makes for some messy and blotchy paint jobs on their heads. I like the air-brushed overspray better myself.
So....I now have 6 band members.....only one shy of a full band.
For those wondering..the band members are:
Figrin D'an......band leader and kloo horn player (long horn with curved mouthpiece)
Doikk N'ats...plays the long straight horn
Ikabel G'ont....plays the short straight horn....the fanfar
Lirin Car'n...plays backup Kloo horn....he was at a table gambling in the cantina
Nalan Cheel...plays the bandfilll....the box horn that hangs around his neck
Tech M'or...plays the omni box....the box with the circular radiator thing on top
Tedn Dahai....also plays the short horn.....the fanfar