Dark Eldar Incubi Helmet

Hello RPF!

I'm passionate about warhammer lore, more specifically, that of the Dark Eldar. I'd like to create a Dark Eldar Incubi helmet. I bounced around the internet for an hour or two and I discovered some things:

1. There's no 3D model for an incubi helmet
2. There's little comprehensive information about how one takes a 2D object and recreates it as a 3D object.

This lead me to believe that I had two options, I could either create my own 3D model in software and follow that route, or mold it out of clay, and cast it.

Am I going down the correct road with this or am I missing something totally obvious?

Here's a pretty comprehensive guide but it involves knowing how to use a 3D editor, which I do not know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ07x2Wvwps

I have wanted to make a full suit of incubus warrior armor as well, but have never gotten around to it, so this may or may not help you here..but in the event you try your hand at something 3D..I made the front and side orthographic views of the helmet based on the cover artwork of "path of the incubus" (minus the horns).









One of the issues I saw with trying to make this helmet, and anything Eldar related really, is that an Eldar head is far skinnier than a normal human head. This means the helmet will need to be wider, which in turn makes it look slightly off and not as sleek as most things crafted by Eldar. However, if that doesn't deter you, then have at it!

Hi Escher! Thank you for the orthographic pictures! I'm a total noob, what would I do with such diagrams? Lay them out on some medium and get to sculpting?

SDub said:

Hi Escher! Thank you for the orthographic pictures! I'm a total noob, what would I do with such diagrams? Lay them out on some medium and get to sculpting?

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More or less, exactly! You can use them as guides to sculpting your own helmet either with clay or via a 3d model on the computer.

I am actualy working on this problem.
The lack of a decent nose area is a problem, especialy when you have to adjust the eyes to compensate.
I have been investigating the required base shape in Rhino, but also want to make a cast of my head, and then layer on clay till the nose is covered to see what dimensions I get.
I could then scan this in and use this as a base model for all the detailing.


In practical armouring, the Sugarloaf helm has many similarities with the shape and eye layout. (you can see this from my model, Im just working to cover my head model at the moment, fine tuning can come later)

You can scale up the helmet to compensate for this, but that can effect your eye placement.
Its quite a trick to get all these variables to work together

Just chiming in here to say it's awesome to see somebody doing a Dark Eldar cosplay, they have such cool gear and armor!