FIGURE PHOTOS: Action Thrawn!

 

Individual versions of the pics and description in the full post. Already dreading how to best put these on IG and Bluesky.Here’s my latest Big Project, hinted at months ago when I got the Ahsoka Thrawn figure and mentioned that Thrawn is an incredibly boring figure for there to be a toy of. All he does is stand and sit. Mostly stand. Mostly with his hands behind his back. Oh, and he walks sometimes.

So I fixed that with ACTION THRAWN, based on the premise “ what if Thrawn were an 80’s toy character advertised in a hybrid style of an 80’s “kids playing with it” toy commercial and a Hostess Fruit Pies comc book ad. Here are the individual pics with notes as applicable.

The original plan for these was one wide pic with both word balloons, but I liked it better as two. If I’d made that decision from the start, I’d have moved Thrawn farther away from the blocks / painting, so those could be completely cropped out of the first panel. I suppose I could have tried removing them but I was already DEEP into a pile of work on this. Maybe a future fix.

The only way to get this shot, or at least the left half of this, was to build the block wall and take video of me knocking it over onto the figures, then find the best frame of that video and save it as a picture.

My first plan was the “shooting the blocks” shot I ultimately used. My plan with the video was to have Thrawn dropkicking the wall, and filmed it that way, but there was too much blur on the figure and I couldn’t fix it and wasn’t about to set up a new photo, so I went with the original shooting Thrawn.

The ThrawnCycle is, of course, the McFarlane Batman ‘66 Batcycle, with the black cowl and fin parts recolored to Thrawn’s face-blue in phost, and the Bat-symbol replaced with a recreation of Thrawn’s medal pattern. I’ve been learning a LOT about the selection tools in Affinity Photo 2 latelyy, and every single method I’ve tried involves an absolute shit-tone of fiddly work.

The logo is based on the Action Man log. In a bit of serendipity, the shape of the indent around the “T” beautifully matched up with Thrawn’s hip/leg bend, so I had to take advantage of that. Thrawn does, in real life, come with a tiny pistol. And nothing else.