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This project never went beyond the mask, and all my previous photos seem to have disappeared.

As the title says I’m looking for an accurate Wolf bio helmet casting to paint up, can anyone point a guy in the right direction? Thanks in advance!

Yes I seem to remember talk a long time ago when the LM Excelsior came out that it was around 1/500 scale, if so I’d be curious to see how those decals might potentially line up on my model, which as I say is a ballpark 1/537.

Fantastic work! Forgive me but what scale is this again? I am working (slowly) on a 1/537 scale and have yet to work out where I could get some decals from.

Yes, there were around 8 made, all done from water cut aluminium, then sharpened and polished.

The knife was made specifically for the show, it’s not an off the shelf item.

Mixing slightly different amounts of the powder can affect the finish, also if they dust the mould with the powder first or not can also affect the final product, it can also be highly polished, but over time it will wear naturally and get darker. The true finish will only be apparent when you...

It’s cold cast just like the original helmet is. Cold casting can be tricky to get exactly the same each time so there will likely be some slight variance with each piece.

If they’re going for screen accurate then the range finder stalk is static. It moves in the movie (CG) but the prop doesn’t, the RF stalk sits in a slot between the outer and inner ear parts on the original helmets.

They were indeed TIG welded.

A good quality polyester resin is the go-to for fiberglass casting, we use it 99% of the time in our workshops for things like helmets and non -flexible armour parts.

I emailed and asked them for photos of the actual kit but I was sent some photos of what looked like a pretty poor 3D print. Has anyone ever purchased any kits from this company before as I’m not overly familiar with them or their work.

Very glad you are happy with it, Luke. I’m glad I was able to make one for you, and thanks again for the awesome work on the flash hiders!

So here is my progress so far on what I would say is the definitive version, resin cast from my own mould, CNC’d walnut grips courtesy of Justin Rowan, CNC machined aluminium flash hider from my file via Luke at JJ Industries and finished in screen accurate paint.

Thanks man, always appreciate your feedback!