AOTC helmet

nzjedi

Jr Hunter
I've been working like a dog on this, its taken a little over a week, there is still a lot to get done, the dome is lop sided at the moment, and the surface is quite rough, have to get in and hit all the angles with a razor but, its starting to resemble a clone helmet.
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Rear vent greeb
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Some days I was putting 10 hours into it... So "a week" is all relative really, I'm pretty happy with where it is for the time frame, usually I take things very slowly, a helmet can take me months to do sometimes LOL some of them never even get finished at all :p I still have a long row to hoe... Being hand made, it's never going to be perfect but, Im trying my hardest to make it as good as I can, there are already some really nice renditions of this helmet out there, so I have my work cut out for me..
 
Cheers gentlemen, Im hoping to get this under rubber to cast some copies in a week or so, if I can get a few issues worked out :)
 
Foam, bondo, apoxy-sculpt, styrene.. You name it, it's in there :) "Sculpt" is quite a broad term, I didn't start with a bust and a ball of clay if that is what you're askig. IMO that would be a wrong way to make this helmet, because it has so many flat surfaces, I approached it like a model making excercise. I did sculpt it in the sence that the entire thing was made by me, it's not a modified existing helmet.
 
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Apoxy-Sculpt is a ridged setting two part polymer putty for detail sculpting, its a lot like plumbers putty but it has a much longer work time (5 to 8 hours). Styrene, or more correctly HIPs is a type of thermoplastic usually supplied in sheets, commonly used to vacuumform items like plastic cups and packaging. It's also popluar among model makers.
 
here's the power plug detail for the back
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Also, this will be my last post on this forum. if anyone is interested in this project, you can follow it on clonetroopers.net
:cheers
 
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