Hi all, I have the same question for a couple of figures and hope a few of you will be able help me out.

Where does the hollow tusk tusken rader come from, what line or was it in a playset etc?

Same question goes for this Bossk and is it orriginal? The one on the right with painted legs. Scott

The hollow Tube Tusken Raider is found MOC and only on ROTJ Cards (Not SW,ESB etc) without checking i believe its limited to Kenner 65 backs but i may be wrong.

Jay

Thanks Jay, thats a strange one that mate but good to know

snaggletooth wrote:

Same question goes for this Bossk and is it orriginal? The one on the right with painted legs. Scott

Scott, the Bossk on the extreme right is a custom touched up job. As far as I know the production ones were never painted this way and here is a picture of the hard copy painted Prototypes of the first wave of Kenner TESB figures that featured this UNIQUELY painted version of Bossk :



where this protoype painted Bossk is shown together with the other painted prototype figures from this page in the PALITOY 1980 Toy Catalog :

Chancellor_Peter, thats great info mate, cheers. Definitely a touch up then?

Scott

snaggletooth wrote:

Chancellor_Peter, thats great info mate, cheers. Definitely a touch up then?

Scott

You are welcome Scott, sharing information is but another part of learning for me.

Most certainly its a custom paint job, where the paint used did not stick to your Bossk figure on the extreme right. Did you pick it up from eBay?
IF I had done the custom paint scheme myself I would have removed the waxy sheen from the surface of a vintage Bossk figure and used Humbrol Enamel Semi Gloss Black and Pale Grey for my project.

jaymassive619 wrote:

The hollow Tube Tusken Raider is found MOC and only on ROTJ Cards (Not SW,ESB etc) without checking i believe its limited to Kenner 65 backs but i may be wrong.

Jay

Actually the Hollow Tube Tusken Raider is not just limited to the Kenner 65 Backs. There is a specimen that provided the evidence that it was also released on Return of the Jedi 79 card backs - just click onto the yellow wordings to view this specimen.

Hi,
Here you are my UNCIRCULATED Tusken raider on a ROTJ 65 BACK "B" card

Hope this help
J.

Chancellor_Peter wrote:

Scott, the Bossk on the extreme right is a custom touched up job. As far as I know the production ones were never painted this way and here is a picture of the hard copy painted Prototypes of the first wave of Kenner TESB figures that featured this UNIQUELY painted version of Bossk :



where this protoype painted Bossk is shown together with the other painted prototype figures from this page in the PALITOY 1980 Toy Catalog :

I dont want to be an arse...but after all the scandales with pre-production stuff! Are these legit?? Are these yours?

Thanks for beeing not upset



And YeS: This Bossk is definateley a custom job!

wbobafett wrote:

I dont want to be an arse...but after all the scandales with pre-production stuff! Are these legit?? Are these yours?

Thanks for beeing not upset

wbobafett, no worries. I obtained that painted prototype group picture from either one of these online sources : www.theswca.com or perhaps from one of the online Vintage Star Wars collector's forums (not from TIG, which I'm sure). Therefore these are not my figures.

Chancellor_Peter wrote:

snaggletooth wrote:

Chancellor_Peter, thats great info mate, cheers. Definitely a touch up then?

Scott

You are welcome Scott, sharing information is but another part of learning for me.

Most certainly its a custom paint job, where the paint used did not stick to your Bossk figure on the extreme right. Did you pick it up from eBay?
IF I had done the custom paint scheme myself I would have removed the waxy sheen from the surface of a vintage Bossk figure and used Humbrol Enamel Semi Gloss Black and Pale Grey for my project.

jaymassive619 wrote:

The hollow Tube Tusken Raider is found MOC and only on ROTJ Cards (Not SW,ESB etc) without checking i believe its limited to Kenner 65 backs but i may be wrong.

Jay

Actually the Hollow Tube Tusken Raider is not just limited to the Kenner 65 Backs. There is a specimen that provided the evidence that it was also released on Return of the Jedi 79 card backs - just click onto the yellow wordings to view this specimen.

The Bossk was off ebay, got it when I first started the collection. Great info there again but don't give them to much of a idea how lol

javiswspain wrote:

Hi,
Here you are my UNCIRCULATED Tusken raider on a ROTJ 65 BACK "B" card

Hope this help
J.

wbobafett wrote:

And YeS: This Bossk is definateley a custom job!

Thanks for the input guys, i appreciate it.

If any of you, or any one else for that matter notice anything in my limelite that isn't right, fake, labeled wrong ect. Please do let me know.

Thanks, Scott

Is there a way I can remove the paint of Bossk's legs without damaging the plastic or the rest of the paint on his boots?

Thanks Scott