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Great find!

It does look the the hovis are stuck on a nipple?? very good find! they dont look seated against the pocket at all. But i think it would be **** to release it.

I agree, they are way to big. maybe prototypes? the fact that some helmets have them and some dont, would suggest that they were not formed into the faceplate but attatched like the hovi mictips.

They dont look like the hovis mictips on the helmets in the movie. they are to big! strange no one comments? i wish i knew, i would tell you. to bad we didnt have a close up picture.

looks good, great work! finding parts that match the screen used stuff is very hard to do. A frame under the bottom would add alot also.

I agree, you should paint it with fusion. I use fusion as a bonding agent for other paint when painting a color you cant find it in the fusion paints. Like the slate blue on parts, i spray with any color fusion, then respray with the color you want. test spray both paints on something first so you dont run into problems and let the fusion dry for 24 hours before you recoat it with the other color.

Last i spoke to him, he was having trouble heating the plastic and that was a few weeks ago. i will email him and see how he is doing. may be the weekend before i get a reply.

Strange, such a heated debate and no coments??? Funny.....LOL

Nice!!

They use the term bucks in the UK and in the US i have always heard molds. I dont think it matters much as long as people are on the same page. The AA molds look like to me to made be from From a resin or epoxy with body filler added to fill bad spots. They are not any form of plaster, plaster dont hold up with molds like these, the under cuts are to extreme. In the neck area on the faceplate you can notice the way the base flares out, thats to help over stretching of the faceplate and to ease in removal. the same can be said with the dome, you can notice the flare below the forehead, same reason. ABS is not easy to pull, if over heated it can get a bumpy surface, under heated it wont form rite. you also need tons of vaccum to get it to pull good, over stretch it and thin spots show up, the same can be said for styrene. Though stryene can be heated to its melting point then formed, it may turn out slightly pourus, but sharp as ****. thick styrene is always better than thin, people think styrene helmets are thin and junk, most are because the maker uses to thin of plastic and doesnt know any better. thick is good and sharp and always strong. i have examples, .125 faceplate and .125 dome and .060 ear caps. i hope this helps.. pm me for pics

The look of the materials and lack of use on the molds. As you form on molds they take on a different look and these do not have that look at all. They get a natural weathering from heat and debris as they are used, these look fresh as the day they were made. I work in molding and have seen it first hand, maybe there copies and brand new, who knows for sure. but the age of the molds are fairly new, due to the lack of the tell tale signs of use. I do like the placement of vaccum holes, very good thinking on his part. The diameter of the holes tells me he knows how to form, small holes work much better than large ones, to much air volume causes loss of vaccum, small is always good. back on to the look of the molds, in order to get good pulls and good release, car wax is always good to use, for easy release. baby powder on the plastic works great too and all the time, heat and use shows in dirty color patterns, which are not present on his. not trying to be a jerk, its just something i have seen over ten years of molding.

Those molds are two years old or less. no matter how much bondo is on them, they are not original by any means.

Looks GREAT.

Good thing i snagged the pics, i knew that would happen. There is no way that the molds are the same ones from the seventies, they to new. The other main reason is the helmet is so far from looking movie accurate. They are nice molds though,I like the work shop lay out.

Great work Paul, i can bet what he is going to be when he grows up...

They should have left it alone, the ears are the worst i have ever seen. what a shame.. looks like they restored it in a dark room..

Looks good to me... Leave it the way it is, i would say..

Cant wait to see it formed......

Great work CW, always the best from you.

I agree, Looks like a meatsock to me also.

I bought from him with no problem? strange.

Looks GREAT!

The one on the left captures the real hero look for me. its in the eyes and width of the helmet.