So you do pair all the sabers up with the correct coo family then, rather than any old spare Vader that you have to hand. A stickler for accuracy, I'd do the same, if I had that many lettered sabers  

At some point it would be cool, if you could spare the time, to go through your Vaders that came off damaged cards, and compare cape variants. That way I can match mine up with the correct capes also  

chris.75 wrote:

At some point it would be cool, if you could spare the time, to go through your Vaders that came off damaged cards, and compare cape variants. That way I can match mine up with the correct capes also  

I can only begin to imagine the time that would take!!!
For Leia bespin and her 3 COO families, it took a long time to really confirm what came with what and then there are always things you cant explain. My LB research took over 6 months to really get a handle on and it is still ongoing as I confirm or contradict my findings every day. Now year in and it is still ongoing for 3 capes and the 3 families!!!! OH and Leia's capes are somewhat easier to identify due to the patterns. Man, black on black on black has got to be hard to confirm on MOCs or baggies!!!!

Anyway... it would be cool to know of course!
I am becoming a stickler for these small details on my loose figures.

cheers!

He he, yeah Jay I agree, its definately a tricky one to confirm. And incredibly difficult to confirm from mocs and baggies, with a few obvious exceptions.  So an almost overwhelming task, considering how many coo families there are for Vader. So I was mainly refering to Oscars early produced, loose figures, with lettered sabers. These came directly from damaged cards/bubbles. So a bit easier to confirm the cape variation. As there are only three coo families that came with lettered sabers, with only two coos per family. I would assume (perhaps mistakingly) that both pairs of coo, per family, would have come with the same cape variant. So its probably the easiest place to start  

  
But you ask the impossible..    
That would be a mission to do a write up on Vader capes.
30+ CoO, and possibly that many cape variants also.  
The 3 families I listed above, make up 90% of the figures I have with my lettered sabers.
I would be 90% sure (and this is my opinion) those 3 families are correct for the lettered sabers.
There are a couple of other coo amongst them, but only is numbers of 1 and 2 for those coo,
which makes me think they could have been swapped at some time.

 Oh well, it was just a thought really   
i know it would be nigh on impossible to pair up all 30 coos with the correct cape variant. But I thought perhaps just the six-8 figures that you have, that came straight off the card, would be a nice little group   
Cheers.

Sometimes you click in a tempting post because of the curious title... and more often than not when you click on it the post it turn out to be not much...

Not here I was totally blown away

I can appreciate the effort and patience it must have took you to create that ensemble... great stuff

How far are you now do you have all the darth varients. I been collecting Luke Jedis for over 4 years and I still have a long way to go.

Thank you Craig,
your collection is an inspiration, and a great resource to all.
Patience is definatelly the key,
for me it is finding an item I would like to have, in the condition I would like to have it in.
Im still looking for a couple of loose coo varients, and a ton of MOC.
If you havnt seen these 2 collections yet, it will give you an idea of what is available for Vader MOC.
I keep going back to see them over and over again.
Mexican toys, Luis.
http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1015839/
Darth Daddius, Pat.
http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1069480/

      

Oh...

My...

GOD.   

Impressive, most impressive!

Very impressive, Oscar. I have a question about Vader. I have a Vader that had a double-telescoping saber, but it fell out somehow in my boxes of crap and I can't find it...believe me, I've looked. I would have taken better care of it but knew nothing about the values of star wars figures at the time. Anyway, it looks to me like the double-telescoping saber Vader had a larger gap in it's arm for this double saber. The later, single telescoping sabers had narrower gaps in the arm for the single saber. There were just a few Vaders made for the double-telescoping saber. Am i right? Thanks.

Hi and G'day:

In response to your question regarding pics of the possible Luke 1977 variant with the orange lightsaber and two- toned tunic, I have posted them in normantveit's personal album in the gallery section. I also have a curious two-toned Leia and a two-toned Imperial Stormtrooper. Those pics are posted in my album, too.
Cheers,
Norman

Awesome focus!

The troop building is real..