There are roughly 12 or so of the 'version 1' helmets floating around the local 501st garrison and a few more in the hands of private collectors. I'm pretty happy with this helmet it's a more symmetrical version of the tk bucket but I think it captures the feel and style of the piece well.
But there's always room for improvement
so as much as possible I will attempt to do modifications to my faceplate form that involves taking away material from the existing shape. I'm a little reluctant to add material because that means using bog on resin and that means you've got materials that have a different hardness and that can cause a lot of pain when vac forming.So I'm looking to do the following:
reduce the eye border pieces from the current 14mm to 12.5mm. This might not seem like much (it isn't) but it will make a subtle change to the look. Also thin down the flaring a bit flatten down the nose a wee bit and take maybe 2mm off the top lift the brow line of the face plate by about 2mm widen the tear drop to along the bottom by 2mm or 3mm scoop the bottom side tube out just a wee bit. straighten up the teeth and widen the mouth by about 2mm
I might add a wee bit to the upper mouth part, maybe 1mm or 1.5mm just to fatten this out a bit.ok that's about it really. Here are a few first pics of the kind of thing I'm doing. I've actually started but can't find my damned progress pic
ok as always C and C is more than welcome
