RafalFett's Boba Fett Helmet Template Project

RafalFett · Jan 6, 2011

Fett 4 Real said:
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 · Jan 6, 2011

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

RafalFett · Jan 6, 2011

woodman said:
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 · Jan 6, 2011

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 · Jan 6, 2011

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

RafalFett · Jan 6, 2011

Fett 4 Real said:
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 · Jan 6, 2011

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:facepalm. 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 :cheers

RafalFett · Jan 6, 2011

deadland said:
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:facepalm. 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 :cheers

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 · Jan 6, 2011

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

TreppFett · Jan 6, 2011

This is amazing nice work

RafalFett · Jan 6, 2011

deadland said:
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.

TreppFett said:
This is amazing nice work

Thanks a lot! There's more to come.

woodman · Jan 6, 2011

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

RafalFett · Jan 7, 2011

woodman said:
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 · Jan 8, 2011

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 · Jan 8, 2011

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 · Jan 8, 2011

jinto said:
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 · Jan 23, 2011

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 · Jan 25, 2011

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!