Hey, everyone. Welcome back to "How to Be a Poser." Today's topic: the hero pose.
And we're gonna illustrate that pose using Sideshow's Luke Skywalker X-Wing pilot figure.
Let's get started. Okay, so here's our hero: Luke. Right out of the box, exactly as he's gonna come to you.
Now for this particular pose that I have in mind, this particular hero pose,
I think that we're going to have him holding his helmet. Which means we're going to have to get it off his head.
That's a really complex thing to do, so we're going to show you how to do that really quick.
The head assembly comes in three separate pieces: two sides and this top part right here.
So what you're gonna want to do first is just from the top front here, pull this guy off.
Being very careful, these things are very small, very fragile. So be careful not to break any of that.
Now after you get the top of the helmet removed, what you're gonna want to do
is very gently pry these pieces apart, which are friction fit together.
Just be very gentle when you're pulling them apart because you don't want to break this little guy.
He's very thin, very fragile. He's flexible to an extent, but I wouldn't want to push it.
Next up is the removal of the hair piece.
Be very gentle when pulling him off, because you run the risk of marking up his forehead.
Not that it's gonna matter, because his other full hair piece will also rest all the way over his forehead.
But personally, I'm pretty picky about my figures and I don't want them to be marked up.
It's a tight fit, be fearless, and just push it down on there.
This figure has some kind of puffy sleeve thing going on here right out of the box.
I think what you're gonna want to do is just take some time, futz with this costume.
Because Luke is a skinny guy, he doesn't have broad shoulders. He's a kid, he's 19 years old.
Reassembling the helmet, now, because we're going to want this helmet to be intact for the pose.
You'll have three key points right here. One, two, three, bring those things together, push them in.
Together they form two key points here and here. Line those up, and push them together.
They fit quite snug, so there's no fear of them falling apart.
There's a line right here in the gauntlet portion of the glove that should correspond to a similar line
on the hand portion of the glove. Just make sure they're lined up, it just gives it
a nice clean appearance to the overall pose. So that's gonna be right here for now, that's just basically rough.
Pay attention to these feet here. See how they just form kind of a triangle?
The line from the foot back to here and back to here from toe to toe just forms a near little triangle.
That's a natural standing posture. You want to try to replicate that in pretty much all of your poses
as much as you can. With that in mind, we're going to turn his body just a little bit to the front, I think.
Just like he's moving forward. He's looking for adventure and excitement, that's our Luke.
Okay, this is probably something that I should have done beforehand,
but I'm going to need to bend that hand in a particular way.
And so I think what I'm gonna do is I've taken this out right now so I can bend the wrist peg
in the proper direction and then reinsert the hand into the wrist.
Now his hand's in a better position to hold that helmet once we get it in there.
These little guys right here, they can slide. They always will look better if they're perfectly even.
Another thing, all the reference material that I've seen of this figure shows that these straps hang down
on the outside like this. So find a way, whether it's snagging them on the bottom of these pockets
or whatever to just drag them down and get them to stay in roughly that position.
When it comes to a figure like this, you want to suggest not just the character's heroic nature overall,
but you really want to signify Luke's yearning for adventure.
Now I'm gonna lift this up here, you can see that his two fingers there will kind of cradle
that lower curve right there on the side of the helmet. And these two inner fingers, here,
will hook underneath it as it starts to fall. Press it all the way up against his side
and the friction between the hand and the costume will hold that in place. And there it is.
Red Five, totally standing by.