Mandalorian Death Watch helmet WIP

This is one of the greatest things I've seen on these forums, really accurate - especially for a paper sculpture.

Will you be making more than one copy when done?
 
Really good job on the helmet man. However you dont really have to wait overnight for bondo to cure. If you added the right amount of hardener it should fully cure in less than 2 hours.
 
Ok, I have some questions to answer!

Sarim Thiri: I will indeed be making copies, as previously mentioned in the thread. This cardboard/fiberglass/bondo mockup will be wearable for myself, but I'm actually making it to be my first helmet mold and will be molding it before I paint it. I'm going to make a rubber mold of it and then do resin copies. I'm looking at using rotocast or something like that for simplicity and for experimentation with materials. The nature of the helmet would prevent easy access to key areas for fiberglassing, but it could be done after the fact I suppose. I want to make the casting process as easy on my end as possible, as I do intend to sell copies in small quantities. The plan is to sell copies as kits, with the helmet pulled right out of the mold with the edges cleaned up, and the horns cast in resin as separate pieces.

Montatora Viroria: I haven't decided what scheme to color it. I want to keep it "accurate" to the source materials, but I do have some options. There is the lighter olive drab and yellow/gold that looks very nice, but then there is the darker black version which just looks plain menacing. I think I'd like to do the black version though, but I'd do extensive weathering on it, like the Boba helmets.

987654321a: I have extensive experience in working with Bondo, and that's actually one of the best qualities of it - the cure time is pretty fast. However, because of the extensive surface area covered, I wanted to give it as much time as it needed, especially since we were going through a humid/rainy period. I also really just didn't want to rush too much with it.


Here's my final progress for the evening. I got the visor cut out and sanded smoothish. I also carved out those horizontal lines at the sides of the visor area. The lineart has those lines coming directly out of the visor, but I decided to give a little 1/4" space between the visor and the line. The line was carved out with the router bit on my dremel turned on it's side. :)

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Well congratulations for being the first to really take this project to the next level :) I really didn't know what to expect when you started, but your skill is amazing :D
 
Amazing and inspirational work. Just curious though. I'm not familiar with the comic your using for a source. The only Death Watch I was aware of up to this was the Star Wars Galaxies Death Watch in the DWB. Looks great.
 
This is just awesome! I would certainly be up for a copy if you will sell it.

The SWG Death Watch are lame and lazy, they're just regulars with no distinction at all.
 
The ears were looking at me funny, so I lopped them off with a hack saw. I didn't like how they were curving, so I drew a new profile for them (curved more inward) and went to work. It definitely has a thinner front profile now. I'm gonna add some more cardboard over it and just bondo straight over the cardboard. It's structurally sound in that area, so it really don't need too much reinforcement. I might go in with a bit of epoxy on the inside of it before I attach the cardboard, though, and I'm actually probably going to attach the cardboard with the same epoxy while I'm at it.

I've also been working on that ridge around the dome, and I've also begun to shape the dome down. This dome is gonna need a bit of work, a bit more than my Coruscant Guard helmet did.

I've also begun to tighten up the shape of the horns. The left horn is ready to be smoothed down since I shaved the mounting shaft down a bit so it's slimmer. I still have to shave down the right horn's mounting shaft, though.

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Holy.... that's uncanny. And you've done a GREAT job sculpting that from the pictures. I thought about redoing my ear pieces in wood, myself. Much cleaner corners.
 
I've gotten to a point on the cheeks where I can prime it and prep it for filling. So that's what I've been working on this morning. I got it primed to where I like it and I can start filling in with some putty.

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I also decided to go ahead and put together some greeblies for the cheeks. The lineart shows *something* being there, but of course, it's not clear enough so I decided to design some greeblies myself. They are identical on each side.

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I still have a LOOOOOONG way to go on this helmet, but getting this stuff done make it seem a little more closer to completion for me. :)
 
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