Thanks guys! Egon, yes, I do intend on getting a much more accurate helmet but I want to first practice painting up the rubies helmet to gain more experience before I paint the good stuff. That's why I'm starting with the blaster as well; if I goof up, I goof up $17 rather than $300 (plus I can always sell the rubies later in the cargo hold or the bay
). I got the helmet many years back when I was little, but since I got it, might as well work with it!
I intend on getting a Bobamaker helmet. Since I decided to go with SE Boba Fett I need a good ESB style helmet and Bobamaker pays a lot of attention to little details in the helmet (uneven cheekbones, sharp dent, ect.) plus he makes a hollow RF stalk so I can put that RF light system in there as well.
Costume update; I received my Fettronics V3.2 light board today! It looks so cool. Jon is a great guy to deal with; fast response time and it only took 3 days from when I sent the order form in to getting it in the mail! I highly recommend! I will post a picture tomorrow!
Now that I have that piece, I can start laying out the size of the window I'm going to cut into the left breastplate. I also finished fine sanding the helmet so I can start getting good paint to practice perfecting the armor color scheme. Still have yet to finish the blaster but after today I have some time off work so I can gather more materials and knock some stuff out!