Like Mirax says it's easy. I'll have some pics of my Jango Fett helmet with pinstriping soon. Just use black 1/8" pinstriping.
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Like Mirax says it's easy. I'll have some pics of my Jango Fett helmet with pinstriping soon. Just use black 1/8" pinstriping.
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Very nice, have you decided on what colors you're going to use?
WOW ! you perfectionist dirty monkey !
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Got Maul wrote:
WOW ! you perfectionist dirty monkey !
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Sweet bucket dude!
Lookin' good!
I will be using these colors for now. Maybe one day we'll find out the exact match.
Mirax H wrote:
Very nice, have you decided on what colors you're going to use?
Thanks to Gater for finding this cool visor color.
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WOW!!!
You are amazing dude!
I don't want to be a fly in the ointment, so to speak, but isn't Jango's visor more of a true blue? I think that the lighter color is due to camera flash. Nice bucket BTW!
Ha! Not so perfect to me! It's sitting crooked on the stand. You're slipping, SEEKER.
Kidding, of course. Looks nice so far.
This is gonna be goodI recognised the helmet staright away from the right earpiece.. Keep us updated!
-Mike
Couple of more...
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Testing the colors with photoshop!
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I think ya got it SEEK8)I haven't found anything closer than that.
How the freak did you do that with Photo Shop??
heh heh - cut and paste. Actually I suck in photoshop. I need to take some classes or buy a book on it. I'm sure I'm missing a whole shiet load of things you could do with this thing.
Looks good Seeker. Photoshop is definetely the way to go. I always use it to proof before doing mods....for my armor, for my car, etc. Very helpful.
It would be cool to see it with different lighting situations too. I know in some pics the blues look deeper, more rich and I'm guessing it must be the lighting cause these colors look right on to some of the other pics I have.
Very very nice.
So, did you just take an existing photo of Jango and stick it on top of your helmets and lower the transparency, and if so what photo did you use? I just got a little experiment I'd like to try.
Looks absolutely great, which bucket is that
Cheers
ST
Yep I sure did. If you want the pics I'll send them to you.
Jango_Fett_Jr wrote:
Very very nice.
So, did you just take an existing photo of Jango and stick it on top of your helmets and lower the transparency, and if so what photo did you use? I just got a little experiment I'd like to try.
MSH
drvfett wrote:
Looks absolutely great, which bucket is that
Cheers
STMovie Size Helmet
I'm pretty new to the Jango camp. Everything's been Boba for me up until now. But my Boba is pretty much done, so now I'm preparing to tackle a Jango MSH...
I just need an aluminum rangefinder stalk and an accurate resin Jango RF top. Thank god there are no lights in the Jango RF!
Any suggestions on where to go? Any special RF detailing that a Jango novice might want to know about?
Thanks...
Well, Mardon is doing an accurate Rangefinder and stalk for us on his MLC Jango helmet. However, I don't believe the rangefinder stalk is aluminum, he works with fiberglass. I don't know if he will sell just the rangefinder without the helmet but you could certainly ask him. I'm not sure what BKBT has available.
Yeah, I actually already have one of Mardon's hollow RF kits on order. I'll be putting Bobo's light kit into it for my Boba helmet.
But since Jango's RF doesn't need to be hollow, I was hoping someone might know where I could pick up an accurate solid resin one.
And yeah, I really want to find a tapered aluminum stalk to go with my MSH. (No point in going through all that trouble and expense for a MSH and then skimping out on a detail like the RF.)
Brian,
You seek BKBT, he is where I got my taperd aluminum RF stalk for Mystery Jango helmet...
Lynn
I know nothing about pinstriping, but it doesn't sound that hard to do.
But I am guessing that they sell it in different widths, no? Various increments in millimeters?
If so, has anyone bothered to measure or guesstimate the width of the pinstripes on Jango's helmet? I can eyeball it, I suppose, but if anyone has actually tried to measure htem at AOSW or something, I'd be interested in hearing the results.
Thanks,
Squirk
I bought the 2 stripe pinstripe at Wal Mart and used the bigger stripe. Just trimmed it with an exacto knife.
Wes
I used 1/8th inch pinstripe when I re-did mine after rub-n-buffing it.
I made mine just under 1/8". 1/8" seemed just slightly too thick.
It was like 3/32".
Of course,I work at a sign shop and have the capability to
cut my own pinstripes at whatever thickness I want.
darksidedesign
I recently purchased a titanium drill bit and hobby files for cutting out the keyholes on the back of my Jango helmet.
It's always been my understanding that Boba's cutouts were covered with a circuitboard painted orange, and that Jango's were covered with speaker grille. But I've also heard some folk claim that nothing covered the keyholes (i.e., that the neck seal made the interior so dark that it just looked like there was something black covering the holes).
Which is true? If there really is speaker grille in there, do you just walk into an audio store and ask for it? Or do you find an old/broken speaker and just rip it off?
Frankly I don't think it matters. Just cut them out, put an ordinary screen there, and you'll be fine.
The pics from CII show a screen inside. I was thinking of getting some window screen and use that.
I am also doing the screen thing and I cut out the vertical ear piece opposite the range finder side for ventilation.
I used screen on mine also. I cut 2 sections the same size and rotated them to make it hard for you to see in.
I made a neckseal for my helmet from vinyl and i was wondering if anyone else used vinyl for theirs and how you attached it. I tried hot glue, but the neckseal peeled straight off the glue. So how have you all attached it?
Thanks
My neckseal used velcro. So, one part was sewn on to the neckseal and the other was just peal and stick on the helmet. I made sure that I cleaned the helment 1st.
I used a little epoxy on each end of the velcro to keep it from peeling off.
I haven't really noticed any good close-ups of Jango's rangefinder. Does he have LED's like Boba? I'm working on my bucket right now, it's a Rubies Deluxe, I decided to trick it out a bit and was considering putting in LED's if Jango had some in his rangefinder.
Quote: "Zam, there can be no mistakes this time"
Well, I was all prepared to post "no he doesn't" then decided to take a quick peek through my reference pics. Sure enough, they are there.
WHOOOOAAA!!! That's one huge pic!
Yeah, there were a couple pics on Jango Bear's reference site that seemed to indicate Jango's RF had LEDs. But, Mirax's pics are much more conclusive!
http://www.jangobear.com/ref/page_09.htm (The image in the upper-left corner, and the one directly below it.)
To me it doesn't look like the rangefinder has real working leds. What it looks like to me is they cast the rangefinder off of one with leds. This just leaves the little bumps on the top. You could put real working leds in but I don't think the real thing did.
Oh and the rubies rangefinder has those little bumps. Glad i didn't modify it yet.
my 2 cents worth
I agree, it doesn't look like they are necessarily meant to work. I'd like to put in some blue ones in though, that might be cool.
just to have a third opinion - I don't think they were working lights - but the idea of blue lights is cool while being accurate.
Well, I'm glad I thought to ask. I think I'm going to add blue LED's to my helmet, along with the fans and voice system. I'll be sure to post some pics as soon as they are ready. Thanks everyone
Thought I would post the finished product with this thread.
http://www.r2ro.com/jango_msh.htm
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wow Arturo thats a beautiful work
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Beautiful artistic work. Very nice indeed.
**** Dude!!!!
Great job dude!
Take that, Lucas films!
What'd you do the weathering with?
Edit
Nevermind, found the answer:
"Liquitex - mars black, raw umber, burnt ambur."
Re: pinstriping
Found the best way on a practise run was...
draw a line with a soft pencil to leave a light guide line mark...
Best way to get it straight for me was to use a credit card as a rule...
gently bend it against the helmet and rule out a striaght line all the way round...
then follow it over with the auto pinstrip.
Work really really well on the practise run!
Also noticed after watching the dvd movie footage on screen and in the bucket head documentary that the top stripe goes all the way round the top without any breaks in it...
IE: over the RF ear peice...not into it.
Ps: found the 1/8th auto pinstripe far too thick!, and went with the double pinstrip combo where theres a 1/8th stripe over top a 1/6th (i think) pinstripe set together into one thick clear tape...
Just cut along both sides of the thinner stripe which leaves you with a nice size and backing paper to peel back as you go...
Mason...
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