Okay, here's the deal. It's a bit of long story, but I'll try and do the reader's digest version.
Some of you know that I used to work for a toy company. We made mainly 1/6th figures, then later 1/18th & 1/32nd.
I was very active on various 1/6th forums. That's where I met and purchased products from the maker. Our old Design Team told me how they scale up and down weapons, vehicles, etc.
Say they have a 1/35th Tiger tank. Assuming it's accurate...they take loads of measurements and using basic math, scale it up. Same way if they take a actual M-1 rifle or a mini-gun, they measure it, and scale it down to 1/6th scale.
I can't say that I know how to do it, or to even better explain it than that. To them, it was as simple as baking a cake...
The maker of the helmet did the exact same thing. He scaled it off another helmet in a different scale. The most amazing idea, I thought. He scaled it off a Hasbro 1/6th Jango Fett helmet.
Pretty jaw-dropping stuff to me. He was understandably proud how close it was to " accurate-size". As you've read in the above posts,it's a little bigger in a few areas, but not too far off at all.
The ironic thing, is in another 1/6th forum, when the Jango Fett figure first was released, there was much complaining that the helmet was too big...
He considers it a relatively simple task to do. He's the creator of 1/6th German Armored halftracks- 250, 252, various German military vehicles, smaller tanks, etc. He's done American armor, a Dodge Ambulance,even a Sherman tank.
He's doing the keyholes separately, because his fiberglass caster feels he can get a crisper casting this way.
He's making the rangefinder / stalk "wiring-friendly".
That's pretty much all that I've got on this. I'm looking forward to it a great deal. No doubt, more than one will be made.
I'm just trying to convince him to do a jet pack!! There's two of them in that Jango figure box!!
Please, feel free to ask any and all questions you might have.Either here or PM me.
take care all,
-Rex