TM HERO HELMET - Tantive IV

Hi everyone

I got a hero kit helmet from Paul about a year ago and after all this time I am very close to finish it. For this helmet I got inspired on the hero helmet that appears on Tantive IV right after Vader gets on the ship followed by the troopers. It is very short appearance on the film but I managed to find some reference pictures that guided me in the process to finalize it. At this point I am pretty much done except the weathering and the elastic straps, all the details are hand painted of course! I will add more pics very soon with the weathering pass. In the meantime this are some pics of my progress

Cheers

A

That is sick!

Thanks!

A

That is one nice stormtrooper helmet! You have different mic pieces. is there a reason for that?

nicely done! pure perfection!

Very nice looking piece.

its looks glorious, but is there meant to be that peeling of the paint on the vocoder and the mic tips?

Thank you guys. I am glad you liked it I am still working on the weathering pass.

cavx said:

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That is one nice stormtrooper helmet! You have different mic pieces. is there a reason for that?

The mic pieces are identical to each other, they are painted replicating the tantive IV style, one of them is peeled off with metallic grid, the one on the left is painted in black at the base and the rest is peeled off as well but covered with white tape.

rosskow said:

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its looks glorious, but is there meant to be that peeling of the paint on the vocoder and the mic tips?

The vocoder chipping is just replicating the damage on the sets present in some original helmets. these are some of the pics that I got inspired for this helmet containing this kind of details.

Cheers

A

Good job!

Nice job.
I think the right side mic tip is broken off at the prongs on the original.

Keith.

Beautiful job on it!

Love what you did to the mics!

yup, to me attention to that kind of detail makes the helmet that much more authentic. It also shows you care. This helmet is amazing and replicating the mic tips like that is just way cool!!!

Those stormtroopers in that frame look bad ass.

I hope EFX comes through with their HERO.

Keith said:

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Nice job.
I think the right side mic tip is broken off at the prongs on the original.

Keith.

Thanks Keith! That is great information, what I can tell is that the right mic is slightly shorter than the left one, I would love to see more pics of that if possible. If so I would modify the mic to match the original one. . Thanks

Thanks guys, I just wanted to do something different to the usual troopers we see in the forums most of the time.

Edwardowan said:

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yup, to me attention to that kind of detail makes the helmet that much more authentic. It also shows you care. This helmet is amazing and replicating the mic tips like that is just way cool!!!

Thanks, still I am a bit away of my general final idea, I'm also touching up the ear ups to kind of reflect the damaged occurred during the filming

nice...looking good

Nice helmet man. You did a good job on it.

You have hit this one out of the park. Great job!