C-3PO

I went for a more clunky Flash Gordon look with this figure. I tried to incorporate elements of the original design a (gold, wires, disc on stomach) and yet make it my own at the same time.  There are over 250 hand drilled holes just to thread all the wires in the joints.

10-09-06

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R2-D2

For R2 I wanted a clunky looking robot with exposed machinery. My take was that he is a mechanic droid & would be in the bowels of the ships working & would not need to look smooth & shiny.

10-01-06_

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Darth Vader

I tried to take the original inspiration for Vader of the samurai and play up those aspects, I gave his technology a more clunky (almost steampunk) feel.  I also decided that my lightsaber hilts would look like regular swords to play up the medieval feel.

9-28-06

Obi-Wan Kenobi

My idea for the Jedi was an order of warrior monks. Like Teutonic knights of Zen Buddhism.  I have always like the idea that the legendary Toshiro Mifune was considered for the role of Obi Wan, I love Alec Guiness, but Mifune was to the samurai genre what Wayne & Eastwood were to westerns. So my Obi-Wan was going to be Asian.   All my Jedi have similar traits - beards, top knots, armor, & high collars for a more priestly look. 

10-02-06_

Chewbacca

Chewbacca has primal warrior look. I was not going to change his height and hairiness. The actual backstory of Chewbacca was that Han rescued him from slavery. I thought that the imperials might have enjoyed gladiator games, because the Empire is basically a Sci-Fi Rome, so he is a gladiator.

10-05-06_

Han Solo

Han solo in the films is an amalgam of cowboy and pirate/smuggler aspects.  I just tried to maximize those elements.

10-08-06_

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Luke Skywalker

With Luke I I went for a cross between a medieval peasant and desert dweller. The idea was to really play up his lot in life. His sister gets to be a princess and he is stuck pulling water out of the air.

9-30-06

Princess Leia

In keeping with the more antiquated look of the line, I went with the fairy princess look.  I had to keep the hair buns.

10-17-06_

Stormtrooper

The look I wanted with my stormtrooper was a medieval Germanic shocktrooper. 

10-24-06_

Boba Fett

My idea for the figure came when I was thinking about the outfit Boba seemed to be cobbled together from dozens of sources.   So my goal was to try and make the figure with just fodder that I had at the time and try to piece it together with no sculpting at all. There is no sculpting and he is made from 28 different figures from 8 different toy companies and 4 different scales.

11-13-06_

Lando Calrissian

For Lando I wanted that suave, lean gunslinger / gambler look from the Wild West.

11-07-06_

Yoda

For Yoda I tried to put him in my look of the redesigned Jedi knight armor (as in Obi-Wan above). This is not so much the old master in the swamp, but a tough younger Yoda, you know 700 years old.  I wanted all my Jedi to look similar with slight variations.

10-30-06_

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The Emperor

For the Emperor I just tried to play up the look of the wicked, dark, medieval king.

11-22-06

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Jedi Luke Skywalker

Jedi Luke was my final piece in the line and brought in elements from multiple figures, in a way this figure is my closing thesis statement.   I started with the head of my Luke and combined the look of my Jedi armor from his mentor Obi Wan and since Star Wars is in part the tale of how Luke almost became just like his father I incorporated elements from Vader as well.  Of course his bionic arm had to match the clunkier look of my droids.

11-28-06