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[BGHunter]

Well Ive done the work on my (now yours) scratch built , and it looks pretty sweet in real life, I replaced the whole right ear set up, because when I made it I used WOFs templareaand as great as they are the ears are quite over sized , any way so I put in a set up I had spare (the lower one is acctually one of my scratch built masters for my modern ears , I took a few pics of it next to a Jango and a ROTJ helmet of mine,
the scrathy is a little bit bigger but not to much
In the pic it has a visor and a Jango rf topper I may actual give you one of them to use as my Boba RF topper mold died and I dont know if Ill be adding a visor , but if the ones Ive order turn out to be right I wil add one
And these are your total order

 

[Metadude]

(begins to cry) they...they're so beautiful!

 

[Metadude]

by the way, i'm not sure why but the right hand side on the jango looks a little odd? is it just me?

 

[BGHunter]

Yes its just you
Yours will be one of the last Fett helmets I do Im not making them or selling Fett stuff any more Ive a few more orders and then Im done with it

 

[Metadude]

seriously? wow

 

[BGHunter]

Yep there is no fun in it any more , and its not like I make any money on them so there isnt much point
Ive got what I wanted, all I ever wanted was to have a few people have and enjoy some thing I made,
and Ive done around 30 or more, Boba helmets now so I think Ive achieved that goal

 

[Devilstar2k2]

Yep there is no fun in it any more , and its not like I make any money on them so there isnt much point
Ive got what I wanted, all I ever wanted was to have a few people have and enjoy some thing I made,
and Ive done around 30 or more, Boba helmets now so I think Ive achieved that goal

 

[Jayvee]

Thats a shame J, your helmet sits beautifully in my study, in all it's little ESB glory these days. I am warming to ROTJ and was toying with the idea of doing that with one of your lids, but alas, my plans may have been foiled!

 

[BGHunter]

There is alot to it , I do still intend to make one here and there, mabey ill just take a time out

 

[Metadude]

well, I can't wait to receive them

 

[BGHunter]

Cool , Ive ot to do some of the prep to your Jango and then there ready I finished the Boba it actually looks pretty good, much better than it did with the wrong sized ears

 

[Metadude]

thank you so much for this really excited

 

[BGHunter]

My pleasure!

 

[Metadude]

So when would be a rough estimate of time before you can send these two master pieces off?

 

[BGHunter]

Remeber we had this talk 5 days ago

 

[Metadude]

I thought we had it about a week and a half ago? my bad

 

[Metadude]

My boba fett helmet looks more like a boba fail...i'll post pics of what i've got some time tomorrow

 

[BGHunter]

Its a lerning prosses , its alot harder than it looks but if you just stick at it and work on it you should be able to get it

 

[Jayvee]

Keep at it metadude. one of the best bits of advice I can offer, is take your time - it may end up being a long process (could take months depending on time available to you), but in that time, 99% of it should be used looking, prepping, masking, drawing on stencills etc, and only about 1% actally spraying and painting. Use a quality masking fluid (I personally feel you cant go past Humbrol Maskol - many hobby shops sell it, but I also found it in the hobby section of a Toyworld here in Perth, for $9.99 a bottle). Once you draw on your damage, take time to carefully paint on the masking fluid. Sometimes I would find I would be masking bigger layers for hours - but while tedious, it produces great results. keep on hangin in there brother!

 

[KarmaTiger]

I'm also modding a DP for my first Fett bucket. I figure it's a cheap way to learn the painting techniques, etc. and I had one laying around. Someone was overenthusiastic with the glue on the right ear cap, and in stock form it's a POS, but free is free.