Custom vintage Kenner's Ben Kenobi

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I got a 1977 3.75 kenner Ben Kenobi in a job lot whose torso had remained orangy-brown but whose limbs had turned a dark brown. I tried retrobrighting them but it didn't work and as sunshine is pretty rare these days in Sydney anyway, I decided to customise it instead.

I tried to go for a look that was closer to the movie depiction while trying not to look too far away from what a 1977 figure would have looked like.

I painted the figure off-white with some black accent to match Ben's undershirt. Taking inspiration from the Jawa's cloth robes, I made his robes out of a discarded canvas shopping bag as it had the right rough look. I kind of eyeballed the measurement and think it may be a bit small. I tried dieing the robes using tea and coffee but I couldn't get the right brown colour so I gave up and painted the robes using diluted acrylic paint mixed with some PVA glue which made the robe pretty stiff.

The light saber was made using a plastic cocktail fork.

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