6 neededConsidering the fact that propguys were always on a tight schedule ... it's most likely they used the same part over and over wherever they could ... so how many vocoder grills would one need now for one Vader ROTJ Reveal build?
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kind offer but I will decline your gracious offer as the wife's credit card will come in handy when I need it :lolBengrim99: do you need some "funding" to help offset some initial cost. I am interested in a final product helmet and could prepay portion as investor in the process. Thoughts?
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Hi Jeremy nice to hear from you, that's a nice top shot of the lettering and will help with the stretching and squeezing to make them fit, I'm going to do a slight alteration of the piece first as after I did a little mock up I noticed something that just didn't sit right, when I've altered it I will then try again with the lettering with the kind help of ChaimThat's brilliant I think you've nailed it with those eye details, nice one Ben!!
As to your etching dilemma, I think you just need to decrease the width of the laser-etched line quite a bit, your artwork looks nice but the final lines cut are too wide making the characters too fat.
I make the 'LTRS' and the '1-4' characters about 0.25mm wide. I haven't found a perfect font to replicate either of these details, so I did what I think has also been suggested here, and drew them as curved and straight lines in Illustrator (as stick characters) then worked out how thick the lines should be.
Here's a snap I took with my camera looking as straight down onto that area as I could get it. The best I could get, not easy to photograph through glass in dim lighting with reflections everywhere!
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kind offer but I will decline your gracious offer as the wife's credit card will come in handy when I need it :lol
Chaim my friend you are a star I just wish I could learn faster with this computer what you have done would have taken me daysWell I've had some time to tinker with the fonts for the brow linkage ... and here's what I came up with as my first attempt :
http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz258/Sym-Cha/LTRS-00_zpsw1dmtg4b.jpg
http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz258/Sym-Cha/LTRS-01_zpskxxeybcb.jpg
http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz258/Sym-Cha/LTRS-03_zpstktuauy0.jpg
And here compared to your last attempt Bengrim09 :
http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz258/Sym-Cha/LTRS-02_zpskmomlowd.jpg
Chaïm
4 addedExcellent find about the vocoder parts being used on the shutters.
soooo please add 4 of your inaccurate ones to my lot, ok?!
thanks for your efforts !!!
lol:lolYeah ... right ... :facepalm
http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz258/Sym-Cha/Darth Vader_zpsmrgwj7sr.jpg
Chaïm