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Offline Qrest Fourstar

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Re: Vintage Kenner Custom for Tamer...
« Reply #360 on: April 14, 2013, 09:41:47 AM »
Yay! I finally get to jump in on this thread! Wookie-balls- Love evrything you've done here! You are the only "restoration" thread I've ever found. I've seen the cards available on ebay and have considered restoring a set of vintage just to have a set of carded vintage(99% of mine are open). Just need to slowly by loose figures, a few at a time.

With the restoration guys on Ebay, I'm surprised no one makes decals for the Cantina or the droid factory. My droid factory needs washed badly! I slao need to replace a few parts. Id really like to clean up all my vintage sets and put them in rubbermaid tubs intead of the old lousy voxes I have them in.
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #361 on: April 24, 2013, 07:03:59 AM »
Next up from me on the vintage front is this guy...



The YPS Hoth Stormtrooper. YPS was a comic in Germany that came with a free toy. In this particular issue the toy was a Star Wars Hothtrooper!



I'm trying to add a bit of variation to my Imperial Hoth forces!

These figures came in a  poly bag with a white cape with round holes rather than slits for mounting on the figure. They also shipped with a Palitoy "Action Force" rifle rather than the standard blue Kenner version



I found this figure at a car boot sale here in the UK. This guy is slightly different to the normal Kenner/Palitoy version. He has a wider stance and the plastic is of a harder quality. He has the country of origin scarred out although be has the LFL trades (which leads me to believe that this may be a Trilogo figure rather than YPS!)



I have supplied the correct Action Fore rifle and a reproduction round hole Kama.  Next stage with be a peroxide bath to clean him up - then he will be ready to join the ranks of my Imp Army!!



Stay tuned for more!

WB Out!!
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #362 on: May 15, 2013, 04:17:57 AM »
The renowned YPS Snowtrooper, wow! I love the vintage Snowtrooper and have about 15 of them. Most of them have repro capes (kamas didn't exist yet back in the 80s), but I'm not picky about that. As long as the figures are the real deal (and they are) and are of C8-9 quality.

My absolute favourite is the Royal Guard, though. Have 13 of them or so as well :D

Hm, I'll have to make another vintage shopping run on eBay to add to the ranks!
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #363 on: May 15, 2013, 12:48:43 PM »
Wow, I would love to have one of those. On the front page.
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #364 on: May 17, 2013, 08:43:18 AM »
Dang, great stuff Ray!
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #365 on: May 24, 2013, 12:43:37 PM »
Thanks guys - I have to point out that first three pics are from the net and not my own!

HOWEVER...

I've just managed to get my hands on a genuine vintage YPS circle hole cape to complete  my trooper!!!
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #366 on: May 25, 2013, 09:02:22 AM »
Haha even better! Just back from the MK Collectormania show

Only made a low level purchase including a meeting the lovely Kenny Baker



But check out that top middle Hoth Stormie...



Believe it or not, I found another YPS Trooper hidden amongst a big bin of vintage figures! New to get a rifle for him though - I do however now have a spare repro YPS cape for him recently freed up!!
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #367 on: May 25, 2013, 04:51:33 PM »
Sweet. That is a nice find.
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #368 on: June 02, 2013, 03:27:28 AM »
Woohoo

Original YPS Hoth trooper now completed with original round hole YPS cape and Action Force rifle! Two of these guys will look awesome in my eventual Vintage Battle of Hoth dio!!





Really quite chuffed to have pieced this guy back together!
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #369 on: June 02, 2013, 03:38:20 AM »
Wow, looks great. Back to the front page.

Looking forward to that Battle of Hoth Diorama too.
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #370 on: June 17, 2013, 05:00:06 PM »
Has anyone come across the peroxide here in the states? I recently won an auction where I got Leia, Chewie and both versions of Han. Chewie looks great, just need to touch up his bandolier. Big head Han is almost perfect. There's a bit of wear on his hair. Small head Han will need more touch up and Leai is the worst, She has to have the bath.

I also dug out the box that I got a got a replacement Luke card in a while back. It has two Lukes. One needs minor touch up, one the torso is very yellow. So, if I can find the peroxide, they are having a bath together.
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #371 on: July 03, 2013, 04:03:38 PM »
well. I finally got my peroxide today. I have a pickle jar I put Luke and Leia in, dropped in a dash of bleach and filled it with the peroxide. It's currently upside down in the back yard. I put it lid down so the sunlight will penetrate it. The jar of peroxide filled the pickle jar, so I hope I can reuse the stuff for another set of figures.
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #372 on: July 04, 2013, 06:32:00 AM »
It would be cool to see before and after pictures!
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #373 on: July 04, 2013, 06:12:12 PM »
Yes I did! I'll just have to get them off my phone.
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Re: A slightly different Hoth Stormtrooper
« Reply #374 on: July 04, 2013, 06:24:10 PM »
Nice, can't wait to see this next set!
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