Hsbro B,F 3 times removed

Did you just sand all the paint of or what?

This seriously started out as a Hasbro Fett helmet? Wow!

Yeah i sanded the whole dome andd took of the kill stripes and silver battle damage as you can see the colour of the dome was green to start, and then gave the out side a qwick spray with flat white , unfortinantly my camera was not working when i began this prodject so i could not document the first steps.

So you've narrowed the horizontal eye part to give it the right squint. What else did you cut or trim?

Here are a few progress pics , epoxyed the joints , then sanded then i under coated then sprayed silver to show any imperfections Next ill sand it then fill any bits that need it cut out the T section an start painting

Here are some progress pics, I have sanded the whole thing added the key section cut out the mandibles detailed the dent attached the top right ear sanded again the give a coat of paintI am quite happy with the way itss turning out , now to deside witch paint scheam to paint it as,

Here are all the parts that i hav removed from the original and then replaced If you havent seen the hasbro B.F in person you might not relise how over sized the ears and the key slots are and the obvious massive vizor the small lower cheaks and the back plate half an inch to long so out of the $95 That the lid cost me im only using about $25 worth the rest is going in the bin.
Any way im starting to paint to day still cant deside witch version to do but am leaning towards ESB.

Ok ive pulled the right ear of done a whole lot of work all over this , Iv e added the flat peices for were the ears are to bee placed iveconter sunk stong magnets in all the flat peices and the earss and the range finder atachstalk housing then filled over them all so it will all hold together nicly with out glueing or skrewing them in placeIalso have put a few hours of work in redoing the dent. nxt another sand and 1 more coat of primer then to a=start painting i have desided to go for the pre pro style the one were he has the yellow and brick red gaunts.
I cant wait to paint this up.

Pre Production 2

thanx any links?

It is a link ;-)

you paid $95 for the hasbro helmet? please say you are kidding. Target has these for 30 bucks!

he is in the land of Oz so things are expensive there...............the price you pay for being that far away from everyone else.

Does any one know if there are refrence shots of the sandy helmet if been goyng through the gallery and im not having any luck,

Check under "".
There's 2 pics on page 5 of the "Pre-Pro3" page.

There are a few more floating around also. One is from a promo shoot and two or three more of it all busted up sitting on a dusty shelf in the LFL Archives with a couple others.

BTW, I've always had a softspot for the Sandy even with all of it's wicked fuggliness.

Thanks mate i did find them it would be hard tomake an acurate paint job frm those pics, I not 100% on witch way to go but i may even do the good old E,S,B .
its to hard to decide. grrrrrr so many posibilities

Right, it's hard to see where the actual paintjob ends and the wear and tear begins. It's definately the black sheep, odd man out of the original six helmets.

All right now i have finaly decided on witch way to go in painting and im going the Sandy style , After much deliberation and procrastination im am 100% on this style and so far im prety happy with its out come .
Hope you guys n gals like,

Can any one tell me the name of the krylon colors that is for most used on the real rotj helmet color dome and cheeks

This is were im at so far I need to redo the lower cheeks and a bit of detailing on the face plus the darker green on the dome in the weathering needs some work.

dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm why the hec did that photo get atached that suxxxxxxxxxxxx.
some one please tell me how i can delete the pic off that guy, who ever he is

You are doing a very fine job. lookforwd to seeing the finished product.

Your first painting job is a learning experience. So don't sweat it. The guys here who get commisioned for helmets have done multiple paint jobs to get where they are... and remember that you're doing a helmet based only off photo stills. It's not like the ESB paint job that has templates available here. You're doing a good job!

Originally Posted by jinto

Ive got the kill stripes down im realy undesided on wether to take a belt sander to this whole thing strip her back to bare and start painting again........

Don't! It looks good.

Yeah man, I think it's looking good.

Thanks for the kind words all , Still cant work out how to remove the pic of that "strapping young lad"
any way im feeling a bit beter about the paint job so thnx again guys

Ive got the back paintedand fixed up the kill stripes to make it look like the real sandy lid,and i removed the first magnets that were not quite stong enough added some super strong magnets as the atachment method for the ears then i filled over them with 2 part epoxy nxt to sand over them and paint the red on the equatoral strip

I can't believe that used to be a hasbro helmet

Im having trouble loading pics up , and for some reson the screen is showing a white page with pasic font insted of the usual black pages is any one else haviong this problem?

very nice job on the hasbro mod ...doing the exact same mod .....only i got mine apart a little better

I was pretty happy with the overall shape of this lid so i desided to make a mould off it and pull afew casts so far ive pulled 3 out and im very pleased with the way the casts look i still need to make the right ear configuration and the clear insert in the range finder then cast those.

The back panels u painted on are ROTJ not ESB which you have going on the rest of the helmet...not sure if you knew that or not....

Wow, I was just looking at those in TRU with my son a few days ago and wondering how accurate they were.
That is a really great job you are doing with it! It is certainly a difficult paint job.
I am waiting to be able to post in the Cargo Hold to get one of the awesome helmets being offered now.
Maybe I will pick up one of these toys to practice painting...
Keep up he good work and the posts of your progress!

Originally Posted by Fett 4 Real

The back panels u painted on are ROTJ not ESB which you have going on the rest of the helmet...not sure if you knew that or not....

Thanx for the advise but , its actualy suposed to be neither, its painted in the colours of the Sandy touring helmet, if i was going for E.S.B id havew failed misserably .
there were originaly 6 difrent styles and i plan to atempt each one

you talking about the PP2v2 youll have to excuse me for mistaking it with the yellow kill stripes sandys had the red/orange not yellow

Yes in all fair nes i did get the colours a bit off i did do the stipes orange over yellow shouldhav been over red, any way ive been pulling a few out off the mould and im going to do the same sceam just with closer colours , I also sanded the hell out of one got it smooth am moving the arows over 2 mls and just neatn in the whole thingup and going to rest the mould with the cleaned up version

Ok so what ive done here is with the casts i made keept one of them as it came out just cleaned it up, an of the other 2 i cut themm up and am in the middle of making one as close to the real thing as pos , basicliy changed all the mesurements using photos and my jango asok and my old mystery as refrences(only), After getting all the sizes right i thort i was pretty happy with it exept for the dome shape from birds eye veiw so ive cut the dome off again and used a mix of expoxy filler and fiber glass resin mixed em together so they can be painted on then applied and worked it to the shape it should be, its a lot of work but iv put this much time in it so far i may as well get it right im all so making the ears up , at the right size and a 2 sets of the larger wof size for the hasbro mod and its resin copy i might as well finish them astempting as it is to cut them both up aswell and get the ears the right size but ill limit my self,

This is were its at at the mo it now basicly has nothig to do with the hasbro lid tho dont think itd be a good idea to start a new thread

I am amazed at what you have been able to do so far!