more on the helmet... the one i have now is not clone wars accurate enough for my tastes, so i'm redoing it.
this is where it started:
i started marking off where things needed to be changed... sort of like a plastic surgeon would. the biggest cut though was on the back:
OUCH!
yeah, the entire back is different, so i had to cut it all out. that circle won't stay as-is either, but for now i want it there as a good center marker. in addition to the resculpt, cutting the back out also allowed me to push the sides out a bit. the animated helmets are just very wide at the bottom.
the first set of changes to the face were mostly focused on the area around the visor. the cheeks have been squared off, and the cheek tubes are being flattened out, then will be extended a bit to flare out more.
the second set of changes was more on shaping the resin bits... removing the brow trim, reshaping the visor a bit, reshaping the fin...
the indents on the sides of the helmet don't come as far foward in the animation, which got in the way of painting the stripes in correctly. so... i moved them back:
more to come! i'll be working on it for a couple of hours tonight, so there should be something good tomorrow.