Let's see those Airborne Commander / Beehives

Let's see those Beehives! I am thinking I might do one of them next. But, I would like to see what others have done.

Shoot I dont have any pics of mine.

Here is the Parjai helmet I sculpted myself ( Progress pics available )and finished for a friend.

Thanks,
Mike

Very nice helmet Mike!

Beautiful - the finish is extremely professional.

Mike, that helmet is sick! I can only hope mine turns out as good as your Bro. Don't you ever tell me you can't paint!
I plan to wear and display mine proudly! I am stoked to see these pics here dude!

jon

yeesh mike - nothing for ages and then all these pimped out lids making appearances again!

nice work again matey.

now time to show off that Fett of yours too!

Nate

Those beehive troops look sweet. Though I am very interested in the Commander Thire, Commander Neyo, Commander Bly, and Commander Appo varients. I am actually thinking of making my own unique design of a clone with those varients. LOL!

Heres mine. H Ver 1, got it a few years ago.

Those beehive troops look sweet. Though I am very interested in the Commander Thire, Commander Neyo, Commander Bly, and Commander Appo varients. I am actually thinking of making my own unique design of a clone with those varients. LOL!

I'm currently converting one of my masters over to a keller variant as we speak

I like the Keller helmet alot.

Here's mine, I love it! (thanks mike!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXM05id6xGM

Sick nzjedi! LOL! I love it!

Cheers jon, but mike did the hard work, I'm just a "newb" with a rattle can and some paint brushes I rate these things as one of, if not the single, best true fan made star wars helmets to date, dudes like evo, pghfett, sgb and others are raising the bar all the time, its great.

here's my pghfett airborne paint up.
it's been four or five months since i recieved this helmet and i'm still in love with it.

I just got my helmet from Mike on Saturday. I can't wait to start it.

i literally screamed like a little girl when i got mine.

i can't wait to see what you do with it asok.

Originally Posted by nzjedi

Here's mine, I love it! (thanks mike!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXM05id6xGM

Man, that's sweeeet! Note: add lights to my bucket at some point!

thanks!
asok, did you get your helmet yet?
i know that Morgue has his and two other people from ct.net are starting there's...

i'd like to see some more hippo's though too!!!

haha. i just read a few posts up that asok did in fact get his helmet.

c'mon MAN, paint that sucker up!!!!!!!

I am in the process of getting it ready for paint. As for painting it, I am going to cheat. I have friend who is drooling at the chance to paint one. Who am I to tell him no?

Great likeness and great work... but am I the only person who thinks this helmet design is one of the ugliest in the galaxy? I absolutely love most of the Ep3 clone helmets, but where they pulled this design from... well, this is a family friendly board so I can't truly express my opinion on that...

Originally Posted by ART ANDREWS

Great likeness and great work... but am I the only person who thinks this helmet design is one of the ugliest in the galaxy? .

Imagine for a moment that you DON'T like most of the Ep. 3 helmets, then see what you think of them.

Not to knock anyone's work... these are fantastic representations of the helmet. I just think the design of the helmet itself looks too much like a bug or something...

I think you really need to see one in person, the design definatly grows on you. There is something unusual about it but, I actually think these things are almost more "realistic" than most helmets from SW. I think if you painted one of these olive drab, you could almost imagine some heavy gunner in an east block state wearing this.

lol I admit it
not a desgin that immediately grabs yer, but all these grow on yer, esp.ly Mikes sculpt. Although it might have something to do with the how he captured the complex curves for the lid.

I seem to be really gettin into the less popular lids like the Airborne beehive and Kashyyyk trooper bulldog look

Originally Posted by nzjedi

I think you really need to see one in person, the design definatly grows on you. There is something unusual about it but, I actually think these things are almost more "realistic" than most helmets from SW. I think if you painted one of these olive drab, you could almost imagine some heavy gunner in an east block state wearing this.

I guess I could imagine it for someone driving a heavy vehicle such as a tank I might could see it.

Yeah, I'm with you and Brian, Art. I just never got into this helmet design.

All of you have done great work on your personal pieces for sure! But, I just can't get into this one.

I'm probably going to get hung for saying it on this board but, I feel the same about mando helmets, of all the helmets from star wars, I just cant get into them.. or vader buckets now that I think of it. Taste is a funny thing. The thing with beehives is, you see them and you go " my god.... its... its.... its..... bad arse!" They just look really heavy, and by heavy I mean plenty tough, like a Jamaican gangster. I'm thinking about stripping mine back, and doing a plain white grunt beehive no fancy add ons like the skirt or ammo belt things, I know they don't exist in the films but still, could look quite cool.

I am going to try and see if this comes out right not, so here goes. I do not like the way the helmet looks from the movie. PGHFett has done a great job of recreating the helmet. Make sense?

Then the next question you are going to ask, why are you doing this helmet them?? Well, a group of use are doing some clones and we need somebody with this helmet. So, I was able to get one and the rest is history.

Originally Posted by nzjedi

I'm probably going to get hung for saying it on this board but, I feel the same about mando helmets...

Get a rope!

I like the Beehive helmet more when I see them with the whole suit, and then I think that's bad looking! But that's probably not saying much because I'm also the guy doing the suit for the "other ugly helmet", the ugly AT-RT!

Regardless, those Beehive helmets above look amazing and intimidating at the same time!

personally, i think that airborne helmets look fast and streamlined... and aren't they supposed to be high altitude jumpers or something? i imagine a squadron of beehives dropping out of the utapau sky and landing on the battle field to back up cody and his grunts.

I liked it at one time......

Until I had to sculpt it - lol -

it was a challange to sculpt having very limited images to sculpt from, apparently I like projects that are difficult.

I've always liked the odd characters that had limited screen time, the stuff in the background. Fett was like one of these characters for me when I was a kid, perhaps thats the reason I'm attracted to the Clone scout and Parjai troopers ?

I agree, the helmet looks better as part of a complete costume.

when I saw the Airborne in SW Insider, I just got that warm fuzzy feeling inside. When I came across the 501st and learned the armor/helmet was actually being produced by people, well, it was a done deal!

These are so detailed! Congrats!

a work in progress.

You mean like this? For you Mike!
Thanks for a great addition to my Collection. It is one on my favorites.

Originally Posted by pghfett

I liked it at one time......

Until I had to sculpt it - lol -

it was a challange to sculpt having very limited images to sculpt from, apparently I like projects that are difficult.

I've always liked the odd characters that had limited screen time, the stuff in the background. Fett was like one of these characters for me when I was a kid, perhaps thats the reason I'm attracted to the Clone scout and Parjai troopers ?

I agree, the helmet looks better as part of a complete costume.

I've never been a fan of this helmet design, but here's one I painted for a friend last year. Nothing too grand, just a beater of a paint job.

Jon,
I knew it would look good... I just had no idea HOW good. That's amazing. I really considering taking my pghf beehive back to plain white, and doing a straight white beehive when my armour arrives. Thanks for posting the pics man, its stunning.

Originally Posted by MORGUE

You mean like this? For you Mike!
Thanks for a great addition to my Collection. It is one on my favorites.

You stole my helmet design!!! I am going for something very simiar!!

So dont get to offended when i post it up in a couple of months.

some on who can tell me wher to buy parts for Commander Beehive Suit?
it cut be nice

I can't remember the name of the place but, it's right beside the Commander Cody helmet house.

hehe Thanks, but wher is that? heh

I think it would be cool to see a battlefront version of the beehive, to my eye it seems to be smaller and have sharper lines than the film version. I think if you have pepakura designer, the model could benifit from some edge smoothing, you'll find if you try to sculpt on that armature you'll go through miles of material. Smoother curves require less material to finish, and give you more control over the final shape.

wow i love this suit would like start one of my own im guessing the helmet is best to start with first. can some one plz im me to were i would find one ty

Originally Posted by SaxeCoburg

I've never been a fan of this helmet design, but here's one I painted for a friend last year. Nothing too grand, just a beater of a paint job.

i love this paint job, probably one of my favorites, and i love how you removed the black squiggles - they always looked like a toddler got loose with a sharpie

has any one heard of a ebay store called the star fortress if so what are your thoughts are they good? cause i found a bucket and was wondering if it was worth it

I'd stay clear of them, from what I've heard from other members when I was browsing, they're recasters and I've also heard a lot of the time it's a pain in the neck to even get what you paid for.

cool thank you any idea were i can get my first bucket

avoid SFP.
recasters.
bad after sales.
fugitive from US justice with allegations of paedophilia

what really is that last one true

yep

many SFP parts are verified recasts.

just the facts, no comments - as its all alleged http://www.geocities.com/universalar...er_wanted.html

ok good to know

man i just love these airborne trooper helmets anybody still selling raw casts?

Now that was an awsome helmet!
Look s very tough too..

does anyone know where to get a pepakura link of the airborne helmet?

can i ask if anyone actually sells these lids?, or are they all scratch one off's, you guys made for yourselves?

Mikes can, look up skygunbro on Facebook. He's on some of the forums too, I think maybe clonetroopers.net and maybe here. He's got good photo galleries of his helmets info.

cool thanks i will take a look.

Last I heard, skygunbro dropped off the map. Something with personal issues, I believe he still owed people helmets that they have been waiting a year for. But again check on him.