Hausi Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Hi everyone, Andy from DA /shed of glittering delight did a small run of 1mm HDPE helmets and the detail on them looked pretty sharp so I bought one as a fun project. My initial goal was to throw this one together as quickly as possible not emulating any specific helmet, just for the fun of it as I love building helmets. So in about 2 hours I had it trimmed and assembled. But then I realised that it somehow reminded me of the "Look sir, droids" helmet and I put it aside to get to work on it at a later point again. So it sat there with a skateboard helmet sticker on it. about half a year later I started work on it again, studying reference pics and realising that there had to be a few changes to be made, so I adjusted the allignment, reworked the ears and filled up that one tooth hole which I had cut out a little too hastily with bondo. This being said, I have to say that I think that this helmet isn´t the ideal choice to emulate the "Look sir, droids" helmet. Andy has obviously reworked his molds since, but with this one, the faceplate´s sides are too short which is why the distance between the ears and the tears is too small. Also the bottom of the helmet (cap and back) doesn´t have the right shape/curve to it. Furthermore is the bottom of the faceplate all wrinkled up so I had to cut that off as well. As I still have a very accurate Anon Stormtrooper helmet here, I consider this one as practise. Being only 1mm, it is also quite soft and probably wouldn´t withstand the stress of trooping. Don´t get me wrong here, as all HDPE material, it´s almost indestructible but it´s just very easy to push the dome inwards and the paint would just start chipping. For the paintchips I used Vallejo masking fluid, which is colored so you can still see it, way better that the colorless Revell color stop I´ve been using before. I rather went for the as-seen-on-screen-look with the rather low brow: In some of these pics that were taken at a later date, the weathering has mostly gone and the brow has obviously slipped up, revealing the chipped paint underneath. I also tried to emulate those paint chips so they seem smaller as if the chipping hadn´t progressed so far. Here´s what it looked like after applying the white paint. I also had already started painting the black details. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 Here are some comparison pics, my helmet always first followed by the real one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 right side and details: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CableGuy Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Truly excellent work, Urs. :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 left side and details: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 3 minutes ago, CableGuy said: Truly excellent work, Urs. :-) Thanks you very much Daniel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 back: Emulating the overlap of the bottom s-trim was quite difficult and I don´t think I got it quite right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 bottom: here you can see that my neck opening is a little too wide as the DA helmet doesn´t match the shape and curves of the original. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 Next up: DIRT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoCKo Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Gorgeous! I love it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted December 8, 2019 Author Share Posted December 8, 2019 Thank you Roger Weathering done... and here it is. with this indoor shot taken yesterday evening, the wash with Vallejo earts is still missing as I applied it today but because of the lighting, the details are clearer to see: Today I took some outdoor shots in the morning, trying to recreate the lighting of the movie with the sun/light coming from the left side: here´s the original helmet in the movie: I finally added the lense foil and took some more pics from all sides: I can already say that I´m not completely happy with the flame detail on the forehead as it is slighly too small and a little too far left. I´m going to improve this on my next helmet. Cheers mates. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volksjager Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Fantastic work Hausi, really really well done. The outdoor shots are great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausi Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 Thank you Jason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForesterDesign Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 This is a great thread - awesome work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Great project, bro - I love prop accurate builds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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