Boba Fett ESB Helmet Paint Stencils

Cat Scratch and other Dome scratches, part 1

Thanks for the kind words, everybody.

Here is a template for the "cat scratch" and other scratches above the red mandible rim on the front. The gray blob toward the right is the same as the one in the kill stripes stencil I posted earlier. I will try to post color separations later.

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Geez, these templates are just too cool!
Just curious about something with this latest one: how do you take the dome curvature into account? Like when you take a globe and lay it out flat, you wind up with some distortion of the continents. But everything in your template looks like it's proportioned correctly.
 
Geez, these templates are just too cool!
Just curious about something with this latest one: how do you take the dome curvature into account? Like when you take a globe and lay it out flat, you wind up with some distortion of the continents. But everything in your template looks like it's proportioned correctly.

I've been having some trouble figuring that out, which is probably why I did all the flat surfaces first. For the dome parts, like the rest, the stencils may need a little or a lot of adjustment when the paint goes on a real helmet. Reference photos of the prop are always the final word when it comes to shape and size and location of details.

For this latest one, I did some correction for height, and also limited the area to the part just before the curvature becomes more dramatic.

I'd thought that if I could get all the dome scratches done, I could map them to the segmented dome template that wizardofflight did. But, I'm not sure how useful that is in the context of painting a helmet.
 
I've been having some trouble figuring that out, which is probably why I did all the flat surfaces first. For the dome parts, like the rest, the stencils may need a little or a lot of adjustment when the paint goes on a real helmet. Reference photos of the prop are always the final word when it comes to shape and size and location of details.

For this latest one, I did some correction for height, and also limited the area to the part just before the curvature becomes more dramatic.

I'd thought that if I could get all the dome scratches done, I could map them to the segmented dome template that wizardofflight did. But, I'm not sure how useful that is in the context of painting a helmet.

I see. Like I said I was just curious. (y)
Didn't know if the program you were using could make adjustments for stuff like that.
 
LOL.. turns out that I had them on my computer...

Anyway.. here are a few more templates that came from the original thread.
 

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Good luck man, I asked pretty much the same question like a month or so ago and never got it answered. ??? If you look up 4 posts I edited my question cause I gave up. Hopefully you have better luck.
 
Sorry bruv... not seen your question before, and i wouldn't consider myself pro either?

But this is what I did on one of my lids:

Depending on what version lid you have? print the templates (one at a time or you will waste paper) and 'offer' the template up to the lid on a known area.. lets use the back rear left section? once the template 'fits' your lid you now know what scale to print these out at?
When I first printed them out they did not fit my lid... I opened them in Photoshop and rescaled in both thte X & Y.
Then once this has been achived, I then traced the stencil onto tracing paper and used a soft pencil on the reverse side / layed it over the required area and using a toothpick trace back over the template... leaving a fine mark where you can now 'paint by numbers'

Any good for ya? repeat this process for the remainder of the templates... be patient as it takes time... ;)
 
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