Boba fett helmet pep build (my first build)

my paint it all done now and drying but i'll leave you waiting couple more days for a picture, reason being the paint scheme i have done is to represent my the royal navy passing out uniform of my girlsfriends brother, he is getting married tomorrow, sunday 1st april, no its not a bad april fools joke.

"why have you paint a boba fett helmet in royal navy colours for a wedding though?"

for some reason, unknown to me, the men attending the wedding have been making "silly hats" for a tradition from the brides side of the family, and since my helmet was near a semi finished state i thought, why the hell not? its not a silly hat, but it is a ****** helmet.

(the visor has been temporally install with masking tape but it will hold for the time i need it to)

i'll post couple more progress pictures later, paint half completed.

edit: added pictures

added some blue to it, the white dome is just pure white on these pictures unlike the last ones for some reason unknown to me, anyway enjoy.
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and heres a very small sample of the masking tape and bargain booze bags i used.
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i had no idea how long it can take to mask up the areas prior to painting, i knew it wouldn't be a 5 minute job but longer than i anticipated.
bargain booze bags are the best to use. :cheers
 
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some more progress pictures
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again, a note about the paint scheme (from my previous post);

"my paint it all done now and drying but i'll leave you waiting couple more days for a picture, reason being the paint scheme i have done is to represent my the royal navy passing out uniform of my girlsfriends brother, he is getting married tomorrow, sunday 1st april, no its not a bad april fools joke.

"why have you paint a boba fett helmet in royal navy colours for a wedding though?"

for some reason, unknown to me, the men attending the wedding have been making "silly hats" for a tradition from the brides side of the family, and since my helmet was near a semi finished state i thought, why the hell not? its not a silly hat, but it is a bad *** helmet."
 
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the finished product (for now, that is as far as the navy paint job is concerned)

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best quality pictures i can take of it right now

enjoy
 
the last moments before it was time to strip the paint off, couldn't help but take more pictures even though i already have them in abundance
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started by trimming the excess below the vent
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roughly smoothed it out
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taped up my pre-made vent
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applied filler and sat vent in place to make the perfect mould around the vent, taa daa
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i love how well this technique works, now my vent fits like a glove into place.

next up, the paint comes off. got 80% of it off so far, taken longer to get it off than it did to put on.
 
this paint is taking longer to take off than it did to put on.

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"without my bucket i am nothing"
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vent in place

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most of the way there.

after paints off i can get back to work on t
he ears. but i have no time so everything is taking 10 times longer.
 
so i am back to where i was about mid march before i painted it, now i get get to more on the shape of finish of it and maybe, maaaybee end up with a finished product. i wont hold my breath though.

picture time i guess.

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hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful british summer weather :cool

time for a BBQ now and a cold one
 
Its looking good Rosskow. im eager to see how you tackle the ear caps and range finder. it seems your like me in the sense of real life keeps eating into your build time =) Hopefully ill be caught up with you soon on my build even tho im still in the resining paper stage. Ill be keeping a weathered eye on this thread and on therpf
 
Its looking good Rosskow. im eager to see how you tackle the ear caps and range finder. it seems your like me in the sense of real life keeps eating into your build time =) Hopefully ill be caught up with you soon on my build even tho im still in the resining paper stage. Ill be keeping a weathered eye on this thread and on therpf
a follower on both thread, thank you.

this time i'll post up the picture first (because if you're anything like me you looks at them first then read)
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lets see if you follow what im doing.
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and a small description, cut the circle out, cut it down the middle, and now i had a lovely semi circle, taped the **** out of it to stop the filler sticking to it.
cut some MDF strips for the sides, taped them up.
fixed them all in place with.. blue tack :eek:hwell, it worked though
applied filler, wait 15 minutes, remove sides, let dry and sand to level/shape.
currently only sanded down the (helmets) left side, still do to the side with the range finder on.
hopefully get it down next weekend.

then make some ears, buy a range finder and hey-presto, done!

all sounds so easy...
 
i am close to having some ears now, ive spent long enough doing them, but still need some tweaking here and there, as everything always does.

roughly glued together (before cosmetic face lift)
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didnt really look at the picture when i took, them now i've uploaded them and ive actually looked at them, they are ...lets say lacking in clarity.

just silly-taped to the helmet for now get a look see.
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through that sun is a ear cap if you can see it.

i've not sanding down the right side of the helmet for the ear cap to go on yet though which i why its sticking out half mile.

if unpleased by this small updates heres a hamster on my helmet to make it up to you :happy
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Very nice mate, i know how long you waited to have a set of ears and the misfortune of the previous ones. Now you can take pride in that you have created everything on this helmet, and a fantastic helmet it is.

Welsh
 
i just got to mould them now and then i can look at fixing that dent, make it accurate (to some degree) then im almost done, which ive thought/said many times before

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just a couple of new, slightly clearer pictures
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anyone got tips for moulding, what to use, where to buy how to do it and everything else involved :rolleyes
 
well.... first time moulder, first time failure

i didnt mix up enough silicone so i only have (barely) half the amount covering my ear cap than i wanted.

the proof is in the pudding below
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almost got mad bubbles, dont know how it will turn out. i think it was because i mixed the silicone up too fast, it wasn't from pouring it, i spent about 20 minutes slowing pouring it in, i mixed it as though i was making an omlette so i ended up getting lots of air into it (lesson learnt, go slow mixing, less of a wip)

apart from all those problems and issues it all went peachy. that'll be left for 24 hr now before i carefully try to demould it.

meanwhile... i'll correct some minor issues with my bucket tomorrow.

edit: almost it hasn't leveled out properly yet, least i learnt alot from this, thats all i can take from this.
 
i've never been so nervous...

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i dont know whether i should of left the gap out and then i could of just did it on the casts i pull, too late now though...:facepalm
caused all kinds of problems getting out the master.
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eventually got there
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roughly trimmed it, bit worried about trimming it too much and pulling away something important, any tips on trimming it would be a massive help.

tomorrow, remove my other two moulds and maybe attempt a pull on my first mould.

things (still) to do:
-accurate dent, no idea how im going to do that though...
-some dents to fill in on the dome and smooth out
-fix curve on the the right cheek

i see an end in sight, but its still seems a fair distance away.


ALSO, any tips on cleaning out my mould before i try to cast it, the silicone just hangs on to any bits of dirt or dust that comes within 5 foot of it
 
Dent update

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i think the dent it about the right shape, position and orientation but its a little shallow, tell me what you think i could do with some input on this bit



edit: after looking at some reference pictures the dent is too small, still right shape, place and orientation but i need to figure out a way to enlarge it, how i can do that i have no idea.
 
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i've been looking into moulding and casting this helmet, so are there any people out there interested purchasing a cast, it would include the helmet along with the ear caps, it would not include range finder, stalk, visor or MQ-1 circuit board. if you were interest what kind of price would you pay, PM me if you're interested...
 
great build thread. excellent work captain!

ive never been called a captain before but thank you very much

got my vent (semi) installed, its finished but just taped in for the time being

some full shots to show where i am, note the boba fett helmet shape helmet stand i made, i got a little bored :p

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i think all i have to do now are the little arrows in the middle above the visor, how? i dont know yet.

if any one can see something thats missing or doesn't look right, just say so then i'll add it to the to do list.
 
i dont know what else call them other than the arrows, i have done a little more surgery on my helmet to get the rough shape out, started by drilling into it.

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managed to do the second one a little cleaner
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roughly shaped it out
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and lastly, here you can see it's position on the helmet
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thanks, see you again
 
cut the arrows right out
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threw some filler in and stuck in my arrow shaped plug in
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yet to clean it up, its looks wavey but its not as bad as it looks
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now whether i get this moulded or not, im no where near skilled enough to paint it so i think it will only ever see primer paint so im fitting a permanent (styrene) visor.
ignore the cable ties, i had to pull in the cheeks as they weren't in the right position.
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problem is that when the cheeks are correctly positioned so they are not outward from the helmet the visor area is slim to say the least.

so i have two options i see, allow the cheeks to be slightly opened outward from the helmet and get the right visor gap, or i can sand down the cheek edges to give a wider gap, or a little bit of both...
 
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