Slave1Pirate's Aluminum ROTJ Boba Fett Build PIC HEAVY

[Slave1Pirate117]

Wow! What a fun evening!

 

[Slave1Pirate117]

Working on the base coat on the boots today.

 

[dogbertwrldrulr]

Working on the base coat on the boots today.View attachment 247968

Definitely going to follow the progress on this. I need to get my boots setup and ready as well.

 

[Slave1Pirate117]

Well how do we look? All was done with air brush.

 

[Slave1Pirate117]

And here are my gloves.

 

[Slave1Pirate117]

I put a clear coat (finally) on my armor pieces that I painted. A lot of work has been done on helmet number 3 and I'll have pics for you on that most likely tomorrow.

 

[Slave1Pirate117]

Well, be nice! Here are some pics of the aluminum helmet. I DID find some aluminum powder putty to spot fill blemishes and holes. Working on the visor mounts and various other things.

What do yall think? Tempted to start over again or hire someone haha.

 

[dogbertwrldrulr]

For a first cut I think it looks great. Once you do the spot fills with the aluminum powder, I think the only things left would be detail work. The bigger comments I would would likely be fixed when you work some of the finer details. My comments would be:

1. The ridge on top of the visor isn't well defined. It looks a little rounded vice having a sharp edge. It looks like you have enough material thickness left that this could just be some careful grinding or possibly dremel work if you have the right tip. Painting could also help to give it more contrast.
2. The inner "dent" on the mandibles isn't well defined, the blends are too smooth. Same thing with the top ridge, some grinding/dremeling could likely make the blend more distinct. Again, painting would likely highlight the difference as well.
3. Its hard to tell when its laying down, but does it have the correct slope across the bottom? The back should be higher on the collar than the front. It may just be the camera angles though as it does obviously lean back when laying flat. I don't have a helmet in hand to compare it to though.

I think once you fill in the gaps and minor cracks and then smooth everything over and fill out some detail its going to look amazing.

 

[Slave1Pirate117]

For a first cut I think it looks great. Once you do the spot fills with the aluminum powder, I think the only things left would be detail work. The bigger comments I would would likely be fixed when you work some of the finer details. My comments would be:

1. The ridge on top of the visor isn't well defined. It looks a little rounded vice having a sharp edge. It looks like you have enough material thickness left that this could just be some careful grinding or possibly dremel work if you have the right tip. Painting could also help to give it more contrast.
2. The inner "dent" on the mandibles isn't well defined, the blends are too smooth. Same thing with the top ridge, some grinding/dremeling could likely make the blend more distinct. Again, painting would likely highlight the difference as well.
3. Its hard to tell when its laying down, but does it have the correct slope across the bottom? The back should be higher on the collar than the front. It may just be the camera angles though as it does obviously lean back when laying flat. I don't have a helmet in hand to compare it to though.

I think once you fill in the gaps and minor cracks and then smooth everything over and fill out some detail its going to look amazing.

Your comments and kind words make me want to start over.....again hahahaha

 

[dogbertwrldrulr]

Your comments and kind words make me want to start over.....again hahahaha

I don't know how much work some of the various things take so I'd leave that decision up to you. I think it would be worth taking at least a little further, even maybe a base coat of paint to see where you may need to adjust your build earlier in the process. You could restart now and fix a few things only to paint it and realize there were other things that needed to be addressed. Even a quick coat of paint, with some though on how you'd mount the ears and RF stalk may reveal some things you should do earlier. Just my 2 cents, but I usually try to take things as far as I can and note where I could have done better throughout, then start over. Either way, looks like it will be an amazing build once you're done and happy.

 

[Slave1Pirate117]

Alright I did some work today. I flattened the cheeks which helped considerably! Chiseled more of the cheekbones and the ridge that runs around the top. What do ya think now!?

 

[dogbertwrldrulr]

Alright I did some work today. I flattened the cheeks which helped considerably! Chiseled more of the cheekbones and the ridge that runs around the top. What do ya think now!?
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I think it looks much better. I think those details will stand out a lot more when the paint gets added too.

 

[Slave1Pirate117]

Getting super stoked about the helmet.

I welded in aluminum studs to hold down my visor but I still need to trim the studs to length.

I started working on my padding as I wanted all my padding figured out BEFORE I started painting. The idea is to paint, felt the inside, and then mount my padding. I'm debating on the helmet seal as well whether or not I want to make one.

I HAD to do something on the cheek bones padding wise because I have a long nose and I didn't want it pressed up against my visor the entire time I'm trooping.

I had some issues with that in regards to the helmet liner I bought as well as vision issues so I narrowed it down to the top liner being too thick and the part that covers the keyhole plate being too thick as well.

I cut the center portion out of both liners and made some leather wrapped tapered pads that just brought the whole thing together.

Mind you, this is without felt and all the pieces just laying in there. This isn't the final look!

 

[Slave1Pirate117]

I did a thing! I sand casted my left ear for the helmet today! I'll be cleaning it up tomorrow.

I felt this was much easier than trimming my mill 500 times to machine it out of aluminum.
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[Slave1Pirate117]

Alright so I was able to clean up the ear piece some and the shape is coming along nicely but not finished by any means. Once complete, I'll drill and tap some holes and thread in the screws through the helmet to mount it.

I was also able to make my toe spikes in the lathe today as well as the brackets. Tha ks to RafalFett"s blueprints I was able to make them pretty quickly. Thanks mate!