Standardized Fett helmet measurements

stormtrooperguy

Sr Hunter
As I'm sitting at home with 3 Fett lids on hand, I thought it might be neat to try to start up a sort of standardized measuring system for helmets.

People are always asking "Is X going to fit me?", "what's the biggest?", "what's the smallest?", etc...

Between all of us here, we've gotta have every helmet under the sun.

So what about coming up with a standard set of dimensions to take off of each helmet. Not enough to copy stuff, but to get a basic sense.

My thought is that we measure the distance from the bottom of one earcap to the bottom of the other, the distance from the back of the helmet to the front, the height of the dome when it's sitting flat on the floor, and the circumference of the outside of the dome, right above the visor line.

Then we put them all together, perhaps even with pictures of each helmet, and have a really neat, easy to read way for folks to find the right thing.

I can measure my HS, MS3 and BF helmets tonight (the raffle where I'm giving away the BF helmet is Saturday!), At some point I could get Webchief's MSH2.

Worth the effort?
 
cool... let's do this!

since we're from all over, we can measure in our local preferred format and just convert so we have both inches and centimeters.

for the height. i'm thinking that if you put a construction level on the top, level it, and measure the distance from there to the table it will be most accurate. but it's not like we need to be within the milimeter on this stuff :)
 
Well I hail from Marine design so would to the nearest 00.1mm do? :lol:

*JK* I am, but that sounds like a good idea for standard measuring?
 
this thread is great. i was actually thinking about something like this today but more like a sticky that was similar to starwarshelmets.com sort of speak, where there are the different makers armor/helmets/gear pictured in one place where you could easily look and compare and contrast with the names of the makers. i know that would be helpful in my struggles to find parts i like.

sorry for the hijack, but yeah, good idea this thread is. (that sounded very yoda like...)

:lol:
 
You could try the ones TK-409 did long ago:

http://www.tk409.com/images/fett/helmet/measurements.gif

That's an extremely comprehensive set of measurements, maybe more than this project needs? I think at least the basics of:

* width/depth of the bottom opening
* the circumference around the red mandible stripe
* distance from inside the top to the bottom (hard to do)
* distance over the top of the dome (triangles) to the back (keyslot)
* and maybe triangulate the location of the dent

that might give people a good baseline for how a helmet is going to fit.
 
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Yeah, that is a good idea. I probably should have read your original post more thoroughly before I retyped most of it. :lol:
 
I like the idea, but just to repeat what was said before, write in both centimeters and inches, we can't all be like the U.K that uses both systems. :p
 
In Canada, we pretty much HAVE to use both.. US = inches and Rest of the world = cm

I could measure my DP96. No problem.

Now which measures are we gonna need?
 
I have the big bad mamma jamma I will provide measurements on the MLC 1 just send me a pm on exactly what/where to measure!!
 
Would it be inappropriate to ask makers to provide some of the data? The reason I ask is that I have bought two buckets from the same maker, one from an older mold and one from a newer, and the differences are significant. This isn't a maker with numbered models, either, as far as I know in my limited experience. I can measure both of the ones I have and provide that data, but it might make more sense coming directly from the guys and gals that make the thing. Or am I off base here?
 
Please, let's do away with the english system, and have ALL measurements in Metric?

Having all the measurements in mm will eliminate fractional inches. We can eliminate the 9 13/32", and have 24 mm.


This is not just for your Boba helmets, we must work together to rid the world of the evil english system. SUPPORT METRIC: It's for our children.

This has been a public service messsage.








Please continue the Boba talk...
 
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