NEW!! Fettpride Bucket aka "FPH" !!

Great comparison pics! That new helmet does look pretty close to me, but then again I never nitpick the Boba helmets apart like a lot of the "helmet guys" do. :lol: Seriously, to me and pretty much the rest of the world (besides TDH), every Boba helmet out there looks like Boba Fett. As long as it's shaped like a Boba helmet with a T-visor and dent and rangefinder (generically speaking), everyone you see will recognize it as Boba Fett, regardless of which paintjob you paint yours in, or how many milimeters this section is apart, etc.

I'm not trying to sound mean or anything, it's just that there's a lot of different Boba helmets out there and while every 'maker' is striving to be more movie accurate (which I fully admire), to everyone seeing you wearing your Boba helmet in public at events, it doesn't matter who made it, they just see Boba Fett. Doesn't matter if it's a repainted Rubies or this brand new FP one. They see Boba Fett. But for the TDH community, I know we're always striving to make a better Boba. Yay for our insane commitment !!!


For me personally, most of those Mystery sized helmets look too wide for my skinny shoulders, so I'm pretty much stuck with old school helmets as it is. :facepalm I have 3 helmets in my closet under various degrees of being finished, and all are smaller (2 DP vinyls and 1 DP sized fiberglass). I wish I could get a cool helmet like the rest of you guys, but most of them make me look like a Bobble-Head. The Sgt Fang helmet "might" be about the max limit of large size to match my body frame, but in this thread it's being said this new helmet is even larger than the Sgt Fang so most likely would look bad on me. :( The whole movie look is deceiving. Even though the ESB and ROTJ helmets are probably the exact same size, in the stills from ESB the helmet looks really huge on Bulloch's head, but in ROTJ it doesn't. So, for an ESB helmet, I guess I could go with a large Mystery type helmet and the Bobble-Head look would work for that one being accurate. :lol:

It's late and I'm rambling on. Regardless, that's a KILLER helmet that FP has created (with group effort this time) and I'm sure will continue to raise the costuming bar once again. :cheers
 
I am so in love right now...and with a helmet, that was reworked by a group of outstanding helm guy gurus...If this was heard in any other place but here, it would be so wrong, and on so many levels. :lol:

Thanks again guys, for the outstanding work on this. :cheers And now...I want one... ;)

Tim.
 
And Finally.... I like to call this one..."DONE!!" :p

Don't ask me what EVAN4218 is doing?????:lol:..good thing that helmet was there....:eek:

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8)...thanks everyone for all the comments....the DETAILS will be coming sooner than you think.;)

Peace!(y)

If you notice all the black marks on the helmet in this picture... those are our comments for final tweeks. We are striving for perfection on this bad boy. I am very excited to see this project finished. Alot of dedication went into making this helmet capture the essence of the real thing. As far as fan made helmets go it wont get much better then this.
 
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Great job on the helmet. I'm hoping FP can accommodate the vast amounts of orders he's about to get!

If you notice all the black marks on the helmet in this picture... those are our comments for final tweeks. We are striving for perfection on this bad boy.

That's great to hear. I see some marks on the mandibles. I'm such a fan of all the fan-made helmets to date, I guess I'm used to the mandibles being flat or convex in profile view. The mandibles on the FPH currently look more concave than the movie helmets, from the pictures.

How does this look in person? I'm wondering how the horizontal curve of a visor would fit with the vertical arc of the mandibles.

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That curve is there believe it or not, but one of our comments we marked was to lessen the curve to make it more subtle. But it is there. ;)
 
Thats fantastic!!! You guys must be as happy with yourselves as we are eager to get our hands on one!!!


How long before we can all start talking prices??????????????
 
we looked at this over and over and over....we know this curve is present...however we agree it is a little more subtle than what is curently on the FPH. As EVAN4218 said the adjustment will be made and it should come out great. The Best part about this project is that it is a group effort so everyhing we are doing has been reviewed many times so that the most accurate bucket will be created. I am confident that this will be the best helmet FP has ever done!!



That curve is there believe it or not, but one of our comments we marked was to lessen the curve to make it more subtle. But it is there. ;)
 
We did take some with a Srgt Fang...but I duplicated the file names when I uploaded the MSH2 pics..(n)...:(..so no pics..
I know I suck.:p

aw :(

i just wanna know if it will be too big for my head :)

it sounds like it should be just right. i could use something a *little* bigger than the marrow sun helmet i have, but a little smaller than the msh2 i used to have.
 
It is bigger then the Marrow Sun but smaller then the MSH2. :) I belive it to be as close to the size of the real deal as we will ever get with a fan made. The mysterys are to small if your going for the size of the real deal. But the MSH2 was to big... I think folks will be quite happy with this helmets size!
 
That's encouraging to hear, evan4218. Maybe there's hope after all. I'd still have to try one on to see if it would be too wide for my skinny shoulders, though.

You said the "Mystery" helmets are too small? You mean like the Sgt Fang, his was one of the Mysteries, right? I thought FPs original helmet and the Sgt Fang were from basically the same source helmet??? Now I know my Don Post's are too small to the common man, but with my skinny head I have to actually install 1" foam blocks into my Don Post helmet to make it sit nicely on my skull.
 
I thought FPs original helmet and the Sgt Fang were from basically the same source helmet???

FP's MSH2 came from a highly highly modified MSH1, or the Natty15d helmet...which FP owns the molds and rights to....(comparison shots above)
Now as far as how Natty came up with his, I remember reading way back when, but really I just don't remember...anyone??:facepalm

And I think with this new FPH helmet our goal was to make the most accurate fan-made helmet possible.....everyone always knew the MSH2 was too big......yet after seeing the Fett exhibit at C4 allot of us agreed that the "Traditional Mystery Helmet", Marrow's or Sarge's, was still a little small compared to the real deal....I know I know, that is a very BOLD statement. But throughout my time at C4 I spoke with a number of fellow TDH'ers that agreed.
In addition, at the exhibit we took some shots of a Mystery Helmet "fairly close";) to the Exhibit...and the Mystery Helmet was noticeably smaller in terms of over all shape...however details like Ears, RF, etc it was just way to hard to tell, and keep in mind the helmet we used had the new RS ears on....Thanks GBH.(y)

I think at this point a great helmet for "costuming" is cool, and things like "How would it Look on me" is an extremely important question....heck lord knows how many times I was called "JANGO" when I was in the Fett suit here recently:lol:.
But our goal was to try and be as accrurate to the Exhibit as possible, and unfortunatly the Costuming or Trooping aspect NEVER came into play.
At one point it was going to be a 100% ESB helmet, with all the Cracks and gauges...now just a universal Bucket....with so many options ...(y)

I think in the end Fettpride came pretty close with a "Happy Medium" of sorts for everyone....(y)

Hope that helps?:p
 
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To add to what Spidey said... the Natty was a fan sculpt done with clay on top of a DP95. (correct me if I am wrong)

The reason the Mystery helmets are "too small" is due to dozens of generations or recasting... every time you recast something or make a mold your new product shrinks a bit, the level of that shrinkage can be controlled some by the quality of product and the way you mold the helmet. You can also have deformations to the basic shape of the piece... be it the flair or other aspects. Even RS's plug, a first gen casting from a studio helmet has shrinkage. The issue with most the mystery helmets is they have been molded and remolded to the point that they have lost a measurable amount of size from the real deal. This dosnt apply to you if your only interest is costuming and what looks good on you.

My interest is to have the most accurate helmet possible on a museum quality display so how the helmet looks on me when I wear it is of no concern of mine. I have a wide variety of helmets in different sizes to choose from to look "right" on me when I troop. The effort of the FPH is to have a bassist for a truly accurate helmet based on what we witnessed at C4.
 
Even RS's plug, a first gen casting from a studio helmet has shrinkage.

I guess that depends on what you mean by "shrinkage." If you sit two helmets beside each other and see differences -- that's what you can measure with a ruler. I think the MS1 and S/F mysteries are fairly safe in the qualities of their lineage -- however modified lineage they may be.

Where's Lee on this one? I know enough to vouch for now, that fortunately for RS, he had the best industry men on the job with this one (why wouldn't he?), so no, IF (and that's a BIG "IF") there was shrinkage it would be in the undetectable thousanths upon thousanths. We're talking less than the thickness of human hair. That plug wasn't just a bit of work from someone's garage, that much is apparent now. I heard that shrinkage rumor a long time ago, and not only do I not agree, but digital measuring instruments disagree too. That thing has been through so much scrutiny it's rediculous. When you add found parts, the measurements are identical. I'm a patient pefectionist type, and I've got to hand it to that plug, RS is a lucky dude.
 
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