'New' Boba Fett images and facts found on my many Internet travels.


Wow! A new image from the LFL Archive! And that's the Pre-Pro #3 helmet! Do you have more images with that helmet?

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Found another Pre-Pro #2 image here ==> Boba Fett Bathrobe. I resized the image to 200% and also added and fixed the extra 'background' (no suit pixels were harmed during that process!):

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This image was also added to the first post.
 
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Thanks for all of the good work, Rafal. Your threads are always eye candy.

Thanks! I try to do my best, although sometimes I jump with my head first and forget to double check the info I post. But this is part of the beautiful fact that we are simple human beings.
 
Awesome finds! Am I seeing correctly that the Supertrooper's flamethrower actually worked, in some manner of speaking?! :eek:
 
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Awesome finds! Am I seeing correctly that the Supertrooper's flamethrower actually worked, in some manner of speaking?! :eek:

Thanks!

That was a REAL flamethrower, but because Alan Harris' (the person who was in that suit) arm was caught in flame, they modified the flamethrower (look at the Pre-Pro #2 images). The suit had also working rangefinder LEDs, working chest light, speaker under the abdominal plate and microphone in the helmet, a torch (light) in the right gauntlet, a smoking jetpack operated with 2 switches on the right gauntlet and the light beacon located on the jetpack. It was conceived as an all-in-one mobile lethal weapon.
 
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Just amazing. Impressive that they gave this suit so much functionality! Doubt you'd see that kind of attention to details these days.
 
Great find Rafal, and thanks for sharing!!
So, if I'm understanding you correctly (also via our pm) is Jan Steven's mainly the one credited for the sculpt of the armor?? Or JP also?
 
Great find Rafal, and thanks for sharing!!
So, if I'm understanding you correctly (also via our pm) is Jan Steven's mainly the one credited for the sculpt of the armor?? Or JP also?

According to the ESB cast and crew list, there were only 3 sculptors (modellers) hired to work in the preproduction of the movie (source ==> Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Full Cast & Crew):

Art Department
Ted Ambrose ... draftsman
Ivor Beddoes ... sketch artist
Michael Boone ... draftsman
Reg Bream ... draftsman
Frank Bruton ... property master
Steve Cooper ... draftsman
Richard Dawking ... draftsman
Joe Dipple ... property dressing supervisor
Fred Evans ... modeller
George Gunning ... head carpenter
Fred Hole ... assistant art director
Michael Lamont ... assistant art director
Ralph McQuarrie ... design consultant and conceptual artist
Dave Middleton ... construction storeman
Allan Moss ... modeller
Edward Rodrigo ... chief buyer
Bert Rodwell ... head plasterer
Janet Stevens ... modeller (as Jan Stevens)
Charles Torbett ... property supervisor
Bill Welch ... construction manager
Andy Aitken ... plasterer (uncredited)
Gerry Bourke ... props (uncredited)
Mark Harris ... art department assistant (uncredited)
Tom Jung ... poster artist (uncredited) / poster designer (uncredited)
Peter Mann ... constructor (uncredited)
Kieron Mcnamara ... props (uncredited)
Per Mørk ... construction manager (uncredited)

From the Star Wars - The Blueprints book (quote taken from the first post of this thread):

"As I recall, just before I started full-time on Empire, Robert Watts received a sketch from ILM depicting what was described as a super stormtrooper," says Reynolds. "He asked me if I would develop the character and produce an outfit for George to consider, so I enlisted the aid of a sculptor, Jan Stevens(*), and a model maker, Brian Archer (who previously had helped me with Threepio's costume), and produced the outfit complete with backpack and helmet range finder. When George finally received the outfit, he decided to change the concept from stormtrooper to bounty hunter."

It says the outfit complete with backpack and helmet range finder, so I guess it was sculpted (at least partially?) by Jan Stevens with the aid of Brian Archer. It is possible that the jetpack was build (with clay) around the main tube and the side tanks and possible other scratch made parts.
 
Incredible addition, Raf!

Wouldn't it be something if we were able to get in touch with her....
I was thinking the exact same thing!!

That is truly some incredible detective work Rafal, thanks so much for sharing and I love the pic of the Snowtrooper Commander (?). Great shots of the molds too!
Any idea what that is on the floor behind the mannequin in the first photo (of her sculpting)? Looks like some TK shorts or something, maybe....
 
I was thinking the exact same thing!!

That is truly some incredible detective work Rafal, thanks so much for sharing and I love the pic of the Snowtrooper Commander (?). Great shots of the molds too!
Any idea what that is on the floor behind the mannequin in the first photo (of her sculpting)? Looks like some TK shorts or something, maybe....

Thanks for the kind words, Will and Rubio! Yeah, that is the Snowtrooper Commander being modelled, and I was thinking the same about those 'shorts' but I'm not sure if that's the case.
 
Amazing work! Also great shot of the snow commander. I have a friend building one right now that will love seeing that.

Thank you for the great info.
 
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