intwenothor's accurate ESB interior thread.

[intwenothor]

It's the same basic model but the webbing needs replacing. I am yet to find an exact match to the one in the ESB although I suspect it is out there. Finding one with the correct leather headband a bit hit and miss but replacing it is hardly insurmountable.

 

[intwenothor]

The Parts of Star Wars guys have identified a number of parts for the Endor bunker charge. One of them appears to be the clip used to retain the wires inside the ESB helmet.

It's part LS108/65.

Thanks POSW

 

[sutt_hero_rotj]

Nice ! Now just have to figure out where to purchase.

 

[Fett 4 Real]

Nice ! Now just have to figure out where to purchase.

 

[RafalFett]

Great find. Thanks for posting, Andy! Here's the page translated in english for all the non german speaking (like me):

 

[intwenothor]

Just to further the information already out there:

These have minimum sale quantities in the hundreds and are presently sold out. Roy Wannawanga is trying to buy some to sell through his store. So, unless you're desperate to finish your bunker bomb then hanging on for Roy is probably the best bet. In any event, I'm guessing the perfect wire clip interior replicators are probably not that many!

 

[Jango Fett Jr]

intwenothor thanks for all the incredible research, you inspired me to work towards a semi-accurate interior for my MCR helmet. I’ll post more details in my forthcoming build/paint-up thread but here’s a progress pic for now:

 

[intwenothor]

I appreciate that this is an old thread; however, here's an interesting thing.


I've never given up on finding the parts for the helmet interior and a fairly recent item that came to me is just that little bit closer. It's still not quite there but it is closer than I have previously got.


It came from a Joe Brown type helmet. No markings for me to say so definitively but it shares more consistency with the JB types than the other brands. Hard to give a date for the same reason. It shares fewer characteristics with the very early models of the late 60s and seems more similar to a cross between the models of the later 70s and early 80s.

The interior cradle is sewn directly into the plastic deltas per the Star Wars helmets. The brow did not have a padding band. I took this tan leather brow band from a different early JB. Although dirty, the padding strip is the correct colour. Note the thin groove along the top of the strip [as worn - bottom in the pictures]. This groove is present on the ESB helmet brow padding. This groove can be clearly seen in Steven Coleman's Costumes of Boba Fett book - page 83 in my copy.

The other leather strip is a clean piece from the lining of the helmet from which the leather brow band came. I've laid it against the interior band of another JB helmet to show the colour difference to the models with the stitched in brown faux leather bands. This second helmet is marked 1986.

The white herringbone is cotton. This is after washing. The remaining black marks appear to be from permanent marker that also had remnants on the inside of the white helmet - probably the owner writing his or her name.