501st Everglades Squad Themed Clone Helmet

tubachris85x

Master Member

• Sep 17, 2014

• #1

Finally finished this helmet. Had a plethora of issues, mostly with the paint, but I'm happy with the final outcome. Glad to be done though..

-TC

 

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Buzz

Active Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Sep 17, 2014

• #2

Really nice detail. Great weathering and neat chipping. I could almost feel all the dings while wearing it. Looks like a great job.

 

tubachris85x

Master Member

• Sep 18, 2014

• #3

Buzz said:

Really nice detail. Great weathering and neat chipping. I could almost feel all the dings while wearing it. Looks like a great job.

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Thanks! I have been sorta-experimenting with different weathering styles and this was loosely based off the Dredd movie style (in a sense) of weathering. Coupled with the idea of a "fictional in-universe" logic of how the weathering *would* be, i.e., traversing through swamp/everglades-type terrain.

 

Broilermaker

Sr Member

• Sep 20, 2014

• #4

Wow! That's pretty cool, at first I didn't realize that white spot was a droid, pretty impressive. I am so tired of white helmets. I also really dig the light

 

animefan

Sr Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Sep 20, 2014

• #5

Now that's a great paint up!

 

rootman055

Jr Member

• Sep 21, 2014

• #6

Very cool, especially the light.

 

tubachris85x

Master Member

• Sep 21, 2014

• #7

Thanks guys, I'm glad you all like it

As an FYI, the LED in the back was pretty difficult to do despite it being simplistic. It was very nerve-wrecking trying to drill a straight hole through the solid resin without fear of it popping out on the side. The next part, is that the slit is too narrow for a standard LED to fit, so I had to meticulously file two-sides of an LED as flat as possible until I got it. I then used some spare clear plastic, cut and fit it, hand-painted the lines (they're not perfect, but yea. ), backed the plastic w/ the same green tint I used on the visor and then placed a matching piece of light-diffusion plastic behind it.