Hasbro conversion to Phase I clone pilot

Cruzer

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I swear there's a Phase I clone pilot helmet in there somewhere!:confused
I know I really enjoy build up pics. So, I thought I'd share a project I started tinkering with after I caught the clone pilot fever this past summer. I revisit it now and then in between working on member's orders or during drying times, but it's pretty much a "long-term" project. Who knows if it'll turn out alright, but at least I'll be able to call it my own.:wacko:lol:

Thanks goes out to stormtrooperguy and skygunbro for their inspirations.

I'll be sure to continue to post pics of the progress when there is any.(y)

Enjoy,
Cruzer

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For now i can say: good luck with your new project!:cheers
:lol:Yeah, I know it still is FAR away from looking like a clone pilot helmet!:confused
Right now I'm just trying to capture the base overall shape, afterwhich I'll start fine tunning it.

After gluing all of the parts together with CA glue, I lined the interior with a few coats of expanding rigid foam from Smooth-On, then I used some of that expanding foam in a can for home construction because I ran out of the rigid foam. If I could do it over, I would have ordered more expanding rigid foam and used that because it's way better than that house stuff. Oh well.:facepalm

Here's a pic of how it looked after the expanding rigid foam, and with the home stuff. I actually left the two canisters in there because they took up space.::rolleyes

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make sure to get rid of that huge snout.

and keep it sharp like this orignal EFX helmet with out 10 layers of paint.

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Yeah, ideal would be to use a Sci-Fire or efx helmet as a base, but I don't see that happening as I don't have $450 to drop on an efx helmet right now because I just spent some $ on Sci-fire armor. As for the snout, it is what it is and changing that area doesn't concern me because it's not that far off as far as protrusion. I'm not looking to get crazy accurate, I'm just looking to make a nice fan-sculpt/build to go with my scratch made chest box.(y)
 
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Yeah, this endeavor is meant to be a long-term fun project, and to have an Ep2 clone pilot helmet that is scaled more to my "vertically challenged" height.:lol: I like what skygunbro once said to me when he said having different projects going on at once helps feed prop makers A.D.H.D.:lol: Hopefully he'll chime in with his thoughts about the Clone Wars pilot helmet.;) The future for having more Ep2/Clone Wars pilots among the ranks looks bright!(y)(y)
 
Yeah what ever man Cruzer. Your just as anal as I am. :lol:

I love the Ep2 pilots and Ep3 clone pilots.

I'm thinking I would love do to a V-Wing pilot some time.

As soon as I hire some of those Elfs Cruzer has in his garage. :lol:

They were never seen onscreen, but there's some nice looking pictures of them somewhere. ;)
 
When I send you pics of me working on props in the garage in my boxers and shirt because I walked outside early in the morning to let out the cat but never made it back inside the house...then you'll have undeniable proof the elves don't exist!!!:lol:

Dude, and you know you take it to an accuracy level I only dream of!;)

I'd love to see those V-Wing pilots.(y)
Yeah what ever man Cruzer. Your just as anal as I am. :lol:

I love the Ep2 pilots and Ep3 clone pilots.

I'm thinking I would love do to a V-Wing pilot some time.

As soon as I hire some of those Elfs Cruzer has in his garage. :lol:

They were never seen onscreen, but there's some nice looking pictures of them somewhere. ;)
 
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:lol:lol::lol:lol:

Yeah Hasbro screwed up in some of the box art on the toy version of the V-wing.

Everyone thinks is just the regular ARC-pilot

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But it's actually this guy right here. This is the one I'll be doing. :D


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Nice, but with your facial resemblance I'd do an opened face helmet if I had your movie star looks!;):love


:lol:lol::lol:lol:

You dont look to bad yourself. :rolleyes

There is couple of bald looking clone in the 3-D tv series. You could one of those clones.

:D
 
:lol:I actually liked the shaved head clone that had red patches of hair.
The jet packs in this scene looked curiously familiar!8)

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This looks like a great project. I look forward to seeing more progress.

How has the Hasbro helmet worked out so far for this?

I haven't paid enough attention to the Clone wars, what is the difference between the CW version and the AOTC version?
 
I haven't paid enough attention to the Clone wars, what is the difference between the CW version and the AOTC version?

the angles are REALLY exaggerated in the clone wars... the mouth area juts out a lot further (like the hasbro helmet), the bottom lip is flared out more, the frown is cut out completely and is just visor, the fin is really thin and has no ridges / details.

same with the armor... lots of relatively subtle changes, most of which make it more comfortable - like having the knees be extensions of the shins, rather than separate knee pads.

some things are probably for rendering simplicity, but i think more of it is just stylizing - they took the time to render brush strokes in paint on the armor, they could have rendered a frown into the helmet model if they wanted to :)
 
This looks like a great project. I look forward to seeing more progress.

How has the Hasbro helmet worked out so far for this?

I haven't paid enough attention to the Clone wars, what is the difference between the CW version and the AOTC version?

Clone wars helmet is cartoon based of the AOTC helmet.

I dont think Cruzer is going that route.

C6 how is your pilot helmet going? is it completed yet? I would love to see some images or give some feedback to this thread.

Can you post some images of what you did? and how you did it.

thanks man
Arturo
 
C6 how is your pilot helmet going? is it completed yet? I would love to see some images or give some feedback to this thread.

Can you post some images of what you did? and how you did it.

thanks man
Arturo


Finished? no, this is a work in progress.

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I still have a great deal of work to do before it's finished. I hope to get to it and wear it to Wondercon, but this project (like everything else) is slow going.

I used the face and collar of my infantry helmet, and the dome was carved out of 4 lb urethane insulation foam.

Sorry for the hijack
 
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