Goldenrod

Beautiful job!

Awesome! Thanks for making this! I'll definitely use it

Congrats Mr Mikey sir! Hey i've been meaning to send you my Fans choice fig to sign. Now don't go gettin a big'ole head. It won't fit into your bucket anymore Look forward to your leadership bro

Whew! take care of that gem Sandyboy! Any others in mind for the job?

Any new word? Can we see a pic of the inside?

Friggen talking monkeys. Why some people make it to their adult age without stepping in front of bus is beyond me.

Thats awesome news! Can't wait to see'm! Did you have an idea of $ yet? It would cool to see a pic of them freshly pulled and stacked after he gets a few done. Man! Its like christmas early!

I see what your saying. I was just making a assumption to why it became so soft in detail and warped looking. If they did do it the way you mentioned then they might have sanded the edges of the new bucks (poured from the inside). Thus making it easier/less stress on the bucks from the vac pulls. And this may have contributed to the soft detailed ROTJ look.

I don't think the ROTJ helmets were cast from the inside of the ANH helmets. If that were the case then we wouldn't have the much softer details on the ROTJ helmets because it would be closer to the actual ANH bucks. But if the ANH helmets were molded (from the outside) and then from the new bucks pulled the new vacuformed shells from these new (outside) molded bucks the details on the ROTJ helmets would start look softer. Just like if you took the ROTJ helmet (you just made) and made new (outside)mold from it, it would become even softer each time you made a new mold then buck. Because your not using your previous newer buck. Did that confuse? Yeah, i knew you couldn't use a vac shell to vac over.

Its a nice article. Congrats Mike on this achievement .

Yeah the pastel chalks i've used many times before with excellent results. I had clonesix EP2 and Kamino Armorworks buckets i used it on with great results. I'm gonna try and get it done tonite and post results asap For a second review. I want it to look right. This way i can use the techniques for the rest of the armor. Again thanks for input.

thanks guys for your honest input,its the only way to get better at this stuff And thanks for the comps too The fullers earth how does it work? Is it a powder? if so what are you doing to make it stick? I thought about using my pastel chalks technique to further weather it. They work really good. But i have never used the Fullers earth. I guess i would get that at a hobby shop?train section? Goldenrod

Please don't hold back. I can handle constructive critisism. I'm in the process of doing the armor. with flash without flash

Thats not what i said. I said if the ROTJ helmets were recasts of a ANH helmet (which is why the ROTJ helmets appear soft in detail)and then making cast from this actual ROTJ in ABS would make them even softer in detail(which would be a 2nd gen of ANH and 1st gen from a ROTJ. From my understanding the ABS is thicker and harder to pull detail then styrene. Thats why TE uses/used styrene.

But if the ROTJ helmets were recasts from the ANH helmets(which makes for softer detail) ,and these were then cast from this ROTJ helmet wouldn't it make for an even less detailed helmet? Thats why i would like a styrene copy. I know its a thinner helmet but i'm cool with that, my TE bucket is styrene