RafalFett's Boba Fett Helmet Template Project

**RafalFett** · 12-24-2010, 07:26 AM

Why I named the thread this way?

Because it involves many improvements to the Boba Fett helmet, which are:
1 - Some modifications to Alan's helmet templates at the ear base and at the back red rim.
2 - Creating of a new sets of helmet paint and scratches that fits perfectly on Alan's templates (the new paint and scratches scheme was not an intention to compete with Rich D.'s creation, which is a brilliant one... I wanted to made my own set of paint and scratches).
3 - With this new templates you can make your own Boba Fett helmet without using any type of paint.

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Updated the improvements list!

4 - A new set of templates made from reference images from the TDH Gallery.
5 - The paint and scratches theme will be adjusted to this templates.
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The modifications to Alan's templates has occured when I was doing the paint and scratches scheme using reference photos from the gallery, where I observed that the back red rim scratches and the ear base did'n fit the template areas. The red lines are the modifications I made to this template.

The paint and scratches were made directly on Jasc Paint Shop Pro, an easy to use photo editor. The method I used is this:

After selecting the image to use

I open it in the photo editor

I also open the needed template, then I resize the image to fit the template's dimension

Then using the right colour, I draw the paint and scratches outline

Then using the Magic Wand I select the desired range of colours from the outlined area

After the area is selected, I use the Flood Fill to fill the area with the specified colour...

And here is the original and the new paint scheme

So here are some samples of the templates that will be available next year.

The dome scratches are not the final ones and will be tweaked to match the dome red ring's scratches.

I hope I made you interested on this and I'm waiting to see any kind of comments.

I wish to all Fett fanatics a Merry Christmas!

Respect!

**FettFanatic** · 12-24-2010, 09:52 AM

Well I thought it was appropriate to post here since I am a FettFanatic.

Nice work. Looking good. I am sure this will help a lot of people.

**slave1pilot** · 12-24-2010, 10:23 AM

Very cool!
Too bad it's ESB though

**Rich D.** · 12-24-2010, 10:37 AM

These are really well done. Good job, and keep going!

**RafalFett** · 12-24-2010, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by FettFanatic

Well I thought it was appropriate to post here since I am a FettFanatic.

Nice work. Looking good. I am sure this will help a lot of people.

Thanks a lot. I hope it will.

Originally Posted by slave1pilot

Very cool!
Too bad it's ESB though

Maybe I will do a ROTJ paint and scratches scheme. But personally I love the ESB style.

Originally Posted by Rich D.

These are really well done. Good job, and keep going!

Thank you for your kind words.

**BGHunter** · 12-24-2010, 01:29 PM

Nice work Rafal , couple of things oter that could be fixed on the origianal WOF tempaltes, if you are going to all this trouble, i cant load all the pics so if you have done this please disregard..
The ears need to be shorter and the right ear needs to be marinaly thiner, the key slots and suronding should be shorter and a bit thiner,
However good work , and keep it up!

**TreppFett** · 12-24-2010, 02:35 PM

Havnt seen you in a little while and i see youve been busy
nie work!

**RafalFett** · 12-24-2010, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by jinto

Nice work Rafal , couple of things oter that could be fixed on the origianal WOF tempaltes, if you are going to all this trouble, i cant load all the pics so if you have done this please disregard..
The ears need to be shorter and the right ear needs to be marinaly thiner, the key slots and suronding should be shorter and a bit thiner,
However good work , and keep it up!

Thanks, Jinto.
I used images from the TDH gallery to compare the WOF's templates with the original helmet. But this is kinda tricky, because the roundness of the helmet make some parts distorted in the images. I've done some comparison of Alan's templates with Art's GMH images because the helmet is captured in 8 different shots and not to forget the top image of the helmet.

Here are some comparison images.

In some parts the differences are too big... Or the image is distorting the helmet?

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 12-24-2010, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by TreppFett

Havnt seen you in a little while and i see youve been busy
nie work!

Thanks, TreppFett.
I've done this in the last month... I mean the drawing of the paint and scratches scheme. If your kid will have some patience, maybe he will do that helmet without using any paint.

Respect!

**BGHunter** · 12-24-2010, 07:35 PM

PIMP MY LID

**RafalFett** · 12-31-2010, 10:01 AM

Hello there!

I'm back with the finished back plate area of the helmet. It was the hardest part so far because of all the small scratches... But I did it. Next things on my to-do-list are the ears and the rangefinder.

I wish to all of you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Untill next time...

Respect!

**Fett 4 Real** · 12-31-2010, 11:05 AM

very nice bud

**deadland** · 12-31-2010, 02:03 PM

Great work very well done keep it up!!!

**RafalFett** · 01-05-2011, 06:02 AM

Originally Posted by Fett 4 Real

very nice bud

Thanks!

Originally Posted by deadland

Great work very well done keep it up!!!

Thank you.

**SEEKER** · 01-05-2011, 06:30 AM

Awesome stuff man. very nice.

**RafalFett** · 01-05-2011, 07:10 AM

Hello to all fettlers.

This project is taking a little longer then I suspected. The last days I was thinking on how to do a good compare of the original helmet with Alan's templates. I don't have a close match of the original helmet so this is a little bit frustrating. Then I watched the PrePro 3 helmet in the gallery and I saw that this helmet has photos from all angles and this thing gave me a bold idea. I put all the needed photos in the image editor and after a lot of resize and rotation of the images I got this:

The result was so exciting that I said 'I have to do this on the ESB helmet too!'

So, after I found the needed images, I started to work on them.
And here is the result:

Then I made a comparison of the stretched helmet with Alan's template. It seems that this template is shorter in the back area.

I also made some comparisons of my paint and scratches schemes with the stretched helmet. It seems to fit very well on the helmet.

And here are more comparisons of Alan's combined templates.

I'm far of judging Alan's great work, I'm just trying to get the best from this templates. With a little tweaking the result will be more closer to the original helmet.

Any comments on this?

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 01-05-2011, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by SEEKER

Awesome stuff man. very nice.

Thank you, sir!

**deadland** · 01-05-2011, 08:49 AM

Wow dude you just keep on amazing me with this project keep up the awesome work it looks absolutely spot on!!!

**RafalFett** · 01-05-2011, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by deadland

Wow dude you just keep on amazing me with this project keep up the awesome work it looks absolutely spot on!!!

Thanks, deadland!

My goal is to do a helmet as close to the original one as I can. But I hope this will not be a one man project... I hope that others will come with their ideas. Any help is welcomed.

Respect!

**Fett 4 Real** · 01-05-2011, 01:07 PM

Well this is going to help...but having the scale down and having it work with the curviture of the helmet may not workout as well as you want right away. Will definately take some trial and error to get peices right on the dome. But this is GREAT work. alot of pieces alan didnt have are here now. Good stuff once again

**RafalFett** · 01-06-2011, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by Fett 4 Real

Well this is going to help...but having the scale down and having it work with the curviture of the helmet may not workout as well as you want right away. Will definately take some trial and error to get peices right on the dome. But this is GREAT work. alot of pieces alan didnt have are here now. Good stuff once again

Thanks, Fett 4 Real!

The scale down is for space and memory saving on my computer.

Alan did an amazing job when he did those templates... And as I can recall, he used a DonPost 95 for the templates and I guess that all differences are from that helmet. Or not? I need to do more research.

Respect!

**woodman** · 01-06-2011, 02:27 AM

It would be even more helpful if you seperated the colors and had a set of templates for each one.

**RafalFett** · 01-06-2011, 02:40 AM

Originally Posted by woodman

It would be even more helpful if you seperated the colors and had a set of templates for each one.

Yes, it will be... At the proper moment. But first I have to figure out the right size and form of the helmet, otherwise the coloured templates won't fit it as it should.

Respect!

**Fett 4 Real** · 01-06-2011, 03:54 AM

Like I said each helmets going to need scaling and bending done to the stencil to have it work correctly. A FP and MS look similar but are not the same. A FP budget and FP premium are close but not the same understand what Im saying the shapes wont allow for a perfect one size fits all stencil no matter what photoshop or similar is needed for the user to shape the stencil to how it should be for their helmet.

**Fett 4 Real** · 01-06-2011, 03:55 AM

Its a VERY GOOD starting point though compared to just having pics

**RafalFett** · 01-06-2011, 06:19 AM

Originally Posted by Fett 4 Real

Like I said each helmets going to need scaling and bending done to the stencil to have it work correctly. A FP and MS look similar but are not the same. A FP budget and FP premium are close but not the same understand what Im saying the shapes wont allow for a perfect one size fits all stencil no matter what photoshop or similar is needed for the user to shape the stencil to how it should be for their helmet.

My goal is to do the closest match to the original helmet as I can... As I got deeper into this, I realise how big is this project (with 'big' a mean about how much effort and patience this project involves). But stay tuned... there's more to come!

Respect!

**deadland** · 01-06-2011, 08:57 AM

I will have to agree with F4R each helmet is different I have had the pleasure of painting up a BobaMaker, a FP MR, and a Rubbies

. With the FP MR and then new GMH that is coming out I would have to say that those two may be the closest to the original size, the GMH for sure. But from experience in using templates that were provided by Rich D for some of my painting I still had to take them into Photoshop cut them up and resize them for each of the different lids. What you are going here is great and you have definitely added some pieces to your templates that for the most part have had to be created by hand from the ref pics because they were not available yet. Keep up the great work and I cannot wait to see what else you have in store.

Respect!! RafalFett

**RafalFett** · 01-06-2011, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by deadland

I will have to agree with F4R each helmet is different I have had the pleasure of painting up a BobaMaker, a FP MR, and a Rubbies

. With the FP MR and then new GMH that is coming out I would have to say that those two may be the closest to the original size, the GMH for sure. But from experience in using templates that were provided by Rich D for some of my painting I still had to take them into Photoshop cut them up and resize them for each of the different lids. What you are going here is great and you have definitely added some pieces to your templates that for the most part have had to be created by hand from the ref pics because they were not available yet. Keep up the great work and I cannot wait to see what else you have in store.

Respect!! RafalFett

When I said I want to do the closest helmet to the original one, I was referring to scratch build helmets. And I made some comparison of Rich D.'s paint and scratches templates with my ESB stretched template, and I can say that they are very close to it.

I use the GMH images to do the first steps of my new set of templates, because I know this one is the closest match to the real one and this helmet has images with all the angles I need.

I used the following images to do a 3D-like shape.

After I printed those images, I started to assemble all the parts and I ended up with this.

This is a small sized prototype made from plain paper, just to see if I'm on the right track.

Respect!

**deadland** · 01-06-2011, 11:07 AM

Well done I like how this is turning out everything seems to be in the right place and lines up well

**TreppFett** · 01-06-2011, 02:43 PM

This is amazing nice work

**RafalFett** · 01-06-2011, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by deadland

Well done I like how this is turning out everything seems to be in the right place and lines up well

Thanks! This is just the beginning of what I hope it will be the best scrap build helmet.

Originally Posted by TreppFett

This is amazing nice work

Thanks a lot! There's more to come.

**woodman** · 01-06-2011, 11:29 PM

Great that will be awesome with seperate templates to work with and I am very impressed with your attention to detail.

**RafalFett** · 01-07-2011, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by woodman

Great that will be awesome with seperate templates to work with and I am very impressed with your attention to detail.

Thanks, woodman! Altough this project is so much time and effort consuming that sometimes I say to myself 'In what stuff I'm getting in? This is too much for me', but kind words of you and others makes me to go on with this.

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 01-08-2011, 04:22 AM

Hello again!

I've done the first templates of the dome base and the dome forms. This is not a 1/1 scaled template yet, is just for the first prototype I will do. The templates were made using images from the Gallery and Art's GMH helmet.

Then I made a flat '3D' image of the 3 parts of the dome base to fit all together and to find it's center.

I also made some intermediate parts for the dome form to cover 8 segments of the dome. You will see it on the images below.

Got my templates from the printer, then glued them on thin cardboard. The wet like marks on the templates are from the superglue I used.

Then I started to assemble all the parts.

This is the intermediate part I was reffering to.

Then I made Alan's dome, but not before I resized the templates to 88%.

But the dome was a little bit big.

So, I resized the dome base and dome form templates to 105% and made a raw form.

But when I tried to fit the parts together, I saw that the LEFT/RIGHT base form is not sitting well in the dome because of the dome's egg-like form.

Well it looks that I have to make my own dome... I don't know how, but I guess I find a way to do it...

Untill then...

Respect!

**BGHunter** · 01-08-2011, 05:31 AM

Looking good mate , so these are going to be printed templates with the coolours printed on them? so you can make a paper lid and not need to paint it
Or are they going to be painting templates , that will be a guide for people painting a lid up?

**RafalFett** · 01-08-2011, 06:01 AM

Originally Posted by jinto

Looking good mate , so these are going to be printed templates with the coolours printed on them? so you can make a paper lid and not need to paint it
Or are they going to be painting templates , that will be a guide for people painting a lid up?

Thanks, jinto! There's gonna be both type of the templates: the raw template for scratch build and a coloured one for a complete one. The coloured one can be used to paint your helmet as you wish.

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 01-23-2011, 07:53 AM

Hello again!

In the past few days I have worked on the dome templates and the helmet base templates. I've used just reference pictures from the gallery, and I think I'm on the right track. Here are some images with the helmet's main structure.

Top view.

Bottom view.

Then I made the 'face' template by tracing the contour of the base template on a paper and I've got this.

I cut out the template and made this.

But after I compared the model with some reference images, I saw that the ear base on each side is too long, so I made the following changes to the templates.

I also made the correction to the base templates.

The dome templates were made with trials and errors, but this will be shown in the next days.

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 01-25-2011, 07:05 AM

Hello there!

As I promised, I will show you how I made the dome templates from scratch. First of all, I made the base template.

Then I divided each slice to 3, this way I've got a total of 24 slice for the dome. I didn't made an image with this step, so I made a drawing.

To do the dome template, I applied ink on the edge of each slice, then I traced over it with plain paper. This way the edge of the slice is printed inverted on the paper. By drawing each slice next to the other slice I finally got this.

The dome was covered with duct tape to ensure a good surface to the template.

Yesterday I made the face template and I glued it on the base template. I think it looks pretty good.

What do you think of this?

I'm working on the ears, so stay close.

Respect!

**deadland** · 01-25-2011, 08:49 AM

Wow bro looking good looking good keep up the hard work it is coming along nicely.

**RafalFett** · 01-25-2011, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by deadland

Wow bro looking good looking good keep up the hard work it is coming along nicely.

Thanks, deadland! I still got a lot to do on this project, but it improves each day...

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 01-26-2011, 10:55 AM

Today I made the ears and it looks really good, altough is just a prototype. Sorry for the poor images made with my phone at work.

I could have done the ears of others template, but my goal is to do a scratch build helmet from start to finish. So here is how I made the ear templates.

That's it for now. I'll try to finish the dome or the cheak area. See you soon.

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 01-27-2011, 09:31 AM

Hello!

Today I made the dome. But this ain't a perfect one and it's not glued on... It needs some adjustments to it.

So I cut the dome in 8 sections with 3 slice each, then started to glue the pieces on the dome frame.

And here is the helmet with the finished dome. It's much better than before...

This is not a perfect dome and it will be fixed later. I know you will say that the dome is a little bit big and it's fused with the red rim, but remember that this is just a prototype.

Next on the menu... The cheek bones.

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 02-02-2011, 11:53 PM

Hi!

In the past few days I worked on the cheek area and after several failed attempts I managed to do them properly. I also made a new 'face' for the helmet but not before I resized it to 105%. It's a little bit big, and the back plate is small compared to the 'face', but you've got the idea. I also remade the ears to fit on the new 'face'.

So, here it is.

Respect!

**BGHunter** · 02-03-2011, 01:25 AM

Doing some great work there mate,
Do you recon you could slap a ruler against the right ear and grab a pic
and also as you are going to such trouble, did you deepen the upper cheeks from the WOF templates,
on the real helmets they go in much deeper, its really hard to get the dimentions from a pic , so i dont know if you have changed it already but its just a thort

**RafalFett** · 02-03-2011, 04:04 AM

Originally Posted by jinto

Doing some great work there mate,
Do you recon you could slap a ruler against the right ear and grab a pic
and also as you are going to such trouble, did you deepen the upper cheeks from the WOF templates,
on the real helmets they go in much deeper, its really hard to get the dimentions from a pic , so i dont know if you have changed it already but its just a thort

Thanks, jinto! Yes, I made the cheeks deeper into the helmet. I can measure the ears, but as I said before, this is a small scale prototype. But here it is...

Today I made the dent. It looks good for a first try. First, I made an incision to the dome to extract the front right slice, then cut the hole for the dent.

Next on the menu... The rear keyhole or the rangefinder.

Respect!

**BGHunter** · 02-03-2011, 04:57 AM

Right sorry i missed the part were you mentioned the size of you proto,
And i mustve said the wrong ear i ment the other right but if its not to scale then there s no point really
But thanks all the same ,
Really nice dent work to

**RafalFett** · 02-03-2011, 07:18 AM

Originally Posted by jinto

Right sorry i missed the part were you mentioned the size of you proto,
And i mustve said the wrong ear i ment the other right but if its not to scale then there s no point really
But thanks all the same ,
Really nice dent work to

Thanks again, jinto!

Well, today I also made the rear keyhole. It was pretty easy compared to other parts of the helmet.

Also I put into the helmet the front separator to widen the helmet's shape.

This is for today. See you next time with the rangefinder assembly.

Respect!

**Jorun Lakhil** · 02-03-2011, 08:31 AM

Just outstanding...

**RafalFett** · 02-03-2011, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by Jorun Lakhil

Just outstanding...

Thank you for your kind words!

**Fett 4 Real** · 02-07-2011, 09:16 PM

looking at it all its a bit distorted from the curvature of the helmet but its pretty dang close

**GCNgamer128** · 02-07-2011, 09:29 PM

I think you're doing an awesome job so far, but I think the visor is too squinty.

**RafalFett** · 02-07-2011, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by Fett 4 Real

looking at it all its a bit distorted from the curvature of the helmet but its pretty dang close

I hope that the final result (a 1:1 size helmet) will be more accurate than this prototype is.

Originally Posted by GCNgamer128

I think you're doing an awesome job so far, but I think the visor is too squinty.

I guess the visor can be 'un-squinted' by pulling the cheek area down a little bit.

Thanks guys for the encouragement and thanks for any help with tips and errors you can offer.

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 02-08-2011, 02:46 AM

Today I played a little with my ear templates and I managed to do a one piece lower left ear template. I guess I can do this with the other parts of the ears. This is a 1:1 size template, if not, please correct me by giving the correct size.

So, here it is.

I moved the center part to the base part of the template. You will need to cut a little from some parts of the template (because of the cardboard thickness) to achieve a perfect flow of the ear.

Attachment corrected and moved to post No. 57

Respect!

**TreppFett** · 02-08-2011, 07:28 PM

This is utterly amazing
You are a genius

**mhlayne** · 02-08-2011, 08:41 PM

How in hockeysticks....this is just insanely dazzling. You know how to do like some crazy kind of 3D modeling or something? Probably totally off but hey, haha. ;-) Are you going to mold and cast and all that? Awesome man.

**RafalFett** · 02-08-2011, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by TreppFett

This is utterly amazing
You are a genius

Thanks, TreppFett! I'm not a genius, but I do my best.

Originally Posted by mhlayne

How in hockeysticks....this is just insanely dazzling. You know how to do like some crazy kind of 3D modeling or something? Probably totally off but hey, haha. ;-) Are you going to mold and cast and all that? Awesome man.

Thanks a lot mhlayne! Let's just say that I use my imagination and make all kind of scenarios on how to do things simple but keeping a good finished product. As I said somewhere in this thread, I want to do a scratch build helmet from start to finish. And all the templates (including the ones to get the helmet form and those to do the paint and scratches) will be free to use from TDH (and only from TDH!). This will be my way to thank to this amazing forum for all help and info I got in the last months.

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 02-09-2011, 06:18 AM

Today I made the remaining parts of the left ear. The system used is the same as for the lower left ear, a one piece template for each part.

And here are the template for the left ear (print this using fit to page for an A4 paper size).

Respect!

**BGHunter** · 02-09-2011, 08:32 PM

Very nice,
and the overall shape looks great ,
considering youve made the helmet out of thick guadge core flute card board youve done a great job,
Only thing that i can think of is did you get the scale of the right ear set up , if you were using the WOF templates that part is way to big , considering youve modifeid them i guess you propably changed this,
Keep up the good work , I look forward to seeing the 1-1 scale with the weathering actual weathering printed on

**RafalFett** · 02-09-2011, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by jinto

Very nice,
and the overall shape looks great ,
considering youve made the helmet out of thick guadge core flute card board youve done a great job,
Only thing that i can think of is did you get the scale of the right ear set up , if you were using the WOF templates that part is way to big , considering youve modifeid them i guess you propably changed this,
Keep up the good work , I look forward to seeing the 1-1 scale with the weathering actual weathering printed on

Thanks, jinto! I didn't used WOF's templates for the ear or any other part of the helmet. As I said before, I used reference images from the gallery to do a 100% scratch build helmet. And the ears are already on 1:1 scale.

Respect!

**BGHunter** · 02-09-2011, 10:50 PM

Sorry i must v misunderstood i thort you were moding the WOFs.
So there for these are totaly you own work totaly new templates thats really cool
i comend your effort and dedication it must take absoult hours to do all that work.
I look forward to being able to use these to make one up out of plastic

**RafalFett** · 02-09-2011, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by jinto

Sorry i must v misunderstood i thort you were moding the WOFs.
So there for these are totaly you own work totaly new templates thats really cool
i comend your effort and dedication it must take absoult hours to do all that work.
I look forward to being able to use these to make one up out of plastic

When I started this thread, my intention was to alter or mod WOF's template, but then I realized that making a new set of templates would be more adequate. I only have my Boba Fett helmet made from WOF's templates and I don't have any other source (except TDH) from where I can get the helmet form and dimentions. So, to use reference images for the templates was the only way to do this. And I really like how it looks so far.

Respect!

**BGHunter** · 02-10-2011, 05:23 AM

I figured as much when i was writing that,
It ocoured to me that you didnt have an actual helmet(not taking away from your previous make)
but becouse you dont you havnt been influenced by some one elses work and there for using the refrence pics
have managed to pull it of so good on you

its good to see some one going a difrent rought

**RafalFett** · 02-10-2011, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by jinto

I figured as much when i was writing that,
It ocoured to me that you didnt have an actual helmet(not taking away from your previous make)
but becouse you dont you havnt been influenced by some one elses work and there for using the refrence pics
have managed to pull it of so good on you

its good to see some one going a difrent rought

I can't say that I wasn't influenced by Alan's great templates and I think that the steps to build the helmet will be the same as that used on his helmets. For first I tried to alter those templates, but there are so many differences that a new set of templates were the only way to do it. As you can see in this thread, I made the helmet form using reference images, then made the 'face template' using that stretched image made from different positions of the AoSW helmet. The dome was made also with the same system: the dome form using the ref images, then made each dome slice using trial and error. I just hope that the finished helmet will be as close as can be to the real one.

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 02-12-2011, 03:08 AM

Today we will witness the rewriting of the Boba Fett helmet history. After many weeks, or I can say months, I managed to dig out this amazing piece of history: THE UGLY HELMET!!!

I'll be serious now.

I made the helmet using cardboard for packing boxes, this is why this helmet looks ugly. But I wanted to do this to see if the 1:1 templates will fit well. As you can see, the left ear is the one from post No. 57 and is holded in place with duct tape. The overall look is good, and the dome came out really well.

Until now I made the bad helmet (prototype 1 - the scaled down red helmet), the ugly (prototype 2 - this 1:1 helmet) and the next will be (I hope) the good helmet.

Don't hold it for yourself and say what you think about this helmet.

Respect!

**RafalFett** · 02-13-2011, 02:03 AM

I made some comparison images with the ESB hero helmet versus the RWH (Rafal Works Helmet) Prototype No. 2 to see if the proportions are good enough. I think the cardboard I choosed to build this prototype was a bad idea, but helped to get really fast an 1:1 helmet. Boy, that's one ugly helmet...

Respect!

**mhlayne** · 02-15-2011, 06:38 PM

Dude that is crazy awesome. I am very impressed. Must have taken a lot of patience. Consider yourself probably the 1st person ever to have a screen accurate Cardboard Boba Fett helmet! Hahaha! I like it. So what's the next step?

**RafalFett** · 02-15-2011, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by mhlayne

Dude that is crazy awesome. I am very impressed. Must have taken a lot of patience. Consider yourself probably the 1st person ever to have a screen accurate Cardboard Boba Fett helmet! Hahaha! I like it. So what's the next step?

Thanks a lot, mhlayne! Altough the second prototype is looking good (except that ugly cardboard) there are a lot of things to do before it can be named screen accurate cardboard helmet. I have to redo the paint and scratches set to fit my templates and I must correct the dome shape at least to look like the one on the red prototype.

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**RafalFett** · 02-18-2011, 10:20 AM

I managed to get some measurements of the movie sized helmet using reference images from the gallery, my templates, some comparison of TK409 Mystery Helmet Measurements and (sadly) poor information that you can find here on TDH. I think that most of these values ar ok but I may be wrong.

So, here they are.

I hope that some of you may do some measurements of the 'real helmets' to get some values for comparisons.

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**Ogunn** · 02-25-2011, 07:19 PM

this is simply incredible

**RafalFett** · 02-25-2011, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by Ogunn

this is simply incredible

Thanks, Ogunn!

The templates will come shortly and I hope that some of you will to do some scratch build.

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**BGHunter** · 02-26-2011, 12:16 AM

Dude you have really nailed it those mesurments are , from what i can tell perfect,,

And i look forward to making a helmet up with them

**RafalFett** · 02-26-2011, 12:54 AM

Thanks again, Jinto!

This is what I expected... To get a confirmation or two...

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**RafalFett** · 02-26-2011, 08:12 AM

Well, today is a big day for me! I managed to finish the templates, altough this isn't 100% done. There's some tweaking needed, but as a whole it's ok...

Have fun with the assembly and don't hesitate to ask for help. Most of the parts are assembled the way others did on TDH. Best of them is AntMan! (in my opinion)

Update
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The template files are in this thread Rafal Works Helmet (RWH) Templates.

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**goodus10** · 02-27-2011, 02:10 AM

Just got a load of cardboard the other day. Now what shall I do with it? Hmmmmm.

Fantastic work. I've really enjoyed following this thread. New scratchbuild coming up. I just need more hours in my day!

**RafalFett** · 02-27-2011, 03:14 AM

Originally Posted by goodus10

Just got a load of cardboard the other day. Now what shall I do with it? Hmmmmm.

Fantastic work. I've really enjoyed following this thread. New scratchbuild coming up. I just need more hours in my day!

Good to hear this! I eagerly await to see your scratch build started. If you need any tips, don't hesitate to post here, or at your own thread...

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**RafalFett** · 03-29-2011, 07:04 AM

The PDF files at post No. 73 are corrected and replaced.

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**modeljag** · 04-17-2011, 04:42 PM

Wow, amazing work. I need to look into using cardboard more!

**redkraytdragon** · 04-17-2011, 07:08 PM

Absolutely top notch work my friend! Great job on the attention to detail!!

**RafalFett** · 04-18-2011, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by modeljag

Wow, amazing work. I need to look into using cardboard more!

Thanks, modeljag! Cardboard is cool!

Originally Posted by redkraytdragon

Absolutely top notch work my friend! Great job on the attention to detail!!

Thanks a lot, rkd! I just tried to do my best.

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**RafalFett** · 07-22-2011, 04:36 AM

The post #73 was edited. I removed the RWH Template files and added the link to the thread containing these files.

**Skiff** · 11-26-2011, 03:02 PM

dude, you have some serious patience and attention to detail. WELL DONE.

**RafalFett** · 11-27-2011, 02:04 AM

Originally Posted by Skiff

dude, you have some serious patience and attention to detail. WELL DONE.

Thanks a lot!

**mcabrera1275** · 12-01-2011, 08:45 PM

I love seeing WIP projects like this. Keep up the excellent work!

**RafalFett** · 12-01-2011, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by mcabrera1275

I love seeing WIP projects like this. Keep up the excellent work!

Thanks! This project is finished and I already posted the templates here ==> The Rafal Works Helmet Templates and the thread with the first helmet made with these templates is here ==> Making The First Rafal Works Helmet.

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