Hausi Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 I have already built an R2 Dome to carry it around as a trophy but as it is quite heavy and a little unwieldy, I decided to use it as something else, so after my wife had given her okay to use it as a living room lamp, up it went. Now I needed the golden boy too and I was lucky to buy a StarBuckCylon vacuformed helmet kit from a friend and after it had been sitting in my cellar for almost a year, I finally started working on it. Trimming came first, that part I´m familiar with. The so-called horseshoe made of resin was a little deformed, so I put it in the oven to get it straight again. So this is what Anthony Daniels probably felt like: The eyes are made of yellow resin as is the detail that goes in the back of the head and it was a pain to get these parts to fit. The horseshoe was glued into the back with E6000. "Alas, poor C3PO" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 I then used putty and finally sprayfiller and after a lot of sanding it looked like this: I came up with the following construction to carry it around as I didn´t want to go the route most Jawas go with carrying the head around in a net, so I added a neck piece made from some PVC tubing and added cables and stuff to make it look as if the head had freshly been ripped off. I also have a steel tube to hold it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 After doing a lot of research on the RPF about the issue of what color to use to paint that head, I decided to give Plastikoat brilliant gold metallic a try and I am extremely happy with the result. It might not be extremely abrasion resistant but it holds on well and also survived the weathering process easily which is a good sign. As you see, I´m doing a battered up Tatooine version anyway (no throne room finish here) and also decided to have the right eye hanging out of the socket. Gnarly stuff. Anyhow, here´s what it looked like before I started weathering it with water down black acrylic paint: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 And then came the dirt...weathering. Didn´t want to overdo it but I tend to making everything extremely dirty... I´ve also made a stand for it so it can easily be slid onto that to display it. If not on the stand, my friend Markus "tiny" Zeitvogel has provided an ultra-accurate cloth he uses for his "SWAT-Jawas" (they are truly screenaccurate) to rest it on. and so it ended up on the shelf in my office... next to that sneaky guy. I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 Finally I wanted to lean back to read a good book and I found this pic of the screen-used RotJ head: couldn´t identify the corrugated tube on the popped eye when I studies the screen grabs but had to add it: I call it done for now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 bro that looks awesome!super nice work there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlavaFlave Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Why I am not surprised by this. You are too much bro! Stop being so awesome and share the wealth with others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthStevius Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Mate that looks incredible. Thanks for sharing . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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