Since I first constructed my helmet from WizardofFlights awesome templates, I was over joyed to own such an awesome helmet. There was always something that didn't sit quite right in my mind though, but I could never figure out just what it was.
I finished off the rest of my costume, and started attending events with my local 501st squad. Picture upon picture was taken, and I finally had a decent collection of objective views of my suit. That's when I finally started to piece together what had been bugging me about my costume. So did the tweeks and alterations to my suit, and with my stomach in my felling uneasy, I got the nerve to alter my helmet. :facepalm
I decided to cut the bottom of the helmet to give me more visible neck, and provide more clearance with my collar armor. I left the length of the front mandibles, and swept the cheeks upwards towards the ears. I removed the bottoms of both ears, and trimmed up 1cm ( the thickness of the bottom of the left ear ). I went back and forth between as many photos of both Boba and Jangos helmets as I could, trying to ensure that the bottom of the helmet had the correct shape. I noticed that Bobas helmet has a high point directly under the ears. So when you place your helmet on a table, you'll see a noticable gap under the ears. So I emulated this gap. At this point it simply a matter of trimming 5mm off of the back of the helmet to match up with the ear sections better.
I now had a new bottom shape to my helmet, but had to rebuild the bottoms of both ears as I had to remove them. This is when I noticed something interesting on the ILM Jango helmet... the bottom triangle bits on both the right and left ears are the exact same height! So I pulled out my plasticard, and rebuilt the bottoms of both ears, making sure that they were both the same height. The final results are a night and day difference!
Now on to the pictures...
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And now for the in costume comparison...
before...
after...
I finished off the rest of my costume, and started attending events with my local 501st squad. Picture upon picture was taken, and I finally had a decent collection of objective views of my suit. That's when I finally started to piece together what had been bugging me about my costume. So did the tweeks and alterations to my suit, and with my stomach in my felling uneasy, I got the nerve to alter my helmet. :facepalm
I decided to cut the bottom of the helmet to give me more visible neck, and provide more clearance with my collar armor. I left the length of the front mandibles, and swept the cheeks upwards towards the ears. I removed the bottoms of both ears, and trimmed up 1cm ( the thickness of the bottom of the left ear ). I went back and forth between as many photos of both Boba and Jangos helmets as I could, trying to ensure that the bottom of the helmet had the correct shape. I noticed that Bobas helmet has a high point directly under the ears. So when you place your helmet on a table, you'll see a noticable gap under the ears. So I emulated this gap. At this point it simply a matter of trimming 5mm off of the back of the helmet to match up with the ear sections better.
I now had a new bottom shape to my helmet, but had to rebuild the bottoms of both ears as I had to remove them. This is when I noticed something interesting on the ILM Jango helmet... the bottom triangle bits on both the right and left ears are the exact same height! So I pulled out my plasticard, and rebuilt the bottoms of both ears, making sure that they were both the same height. The final results are a night and day difference!
Now on to the pictures...
before...
after...
before...
after...
And now for the in costume comparison...
before...
after...
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