practicecactus
Active Member
Hi, long time listener, first time caller..
This is an upsized vader helmet I'm working on.
Why 1.5 scale? Couple reasons, one is the whole spaceballs thing, the other is, as I'm sure many of you will have experienced, when you held a replica vader helmet for the first time you realise how much bigger it is than you expected. But I guess the real reason is because I saw a bobblehead vader and thought it was silly and all those things clicked in my warped little mind.
I'm not game enough to get into making a real vader bucket from scratch just yet [I'd have to learn how to make molds and stuff] and I was a little daunted how much work my rubies vader would need.
So I decided to make an upsized helmet out of cardboard.
I used the measurements off my rubies helmet to make all the peices.
Still a work in progress, I'm posting this as incentive to get my arse into gear and finish it already.
Already made the mouth grill/mesh, and metal tusks.
I'm just trying to smoothen out the surfaces. I used car body filler to smoothen out the mask. Not sure what to do about the helmet though. Needs to be light enough to not weigh down the whole thing too much.
I sprayed it up with some black at one point to see how it was looking.
I see out the mouth and chin grills. Visability is ok.
This is an upsized vader helmet I'm working on.
Why 1.5 scale? Couple reasons, one is the whole spaceballs thing, the other is, as I'm sure many of you will have experienced, when you held a replica vader helmet for the first time you realise how much bigger it is than you expected. But I guess the real reason is because I saw a bobblehead vader and thought it was silly and all those things clicked in my warped little mind.
I'm not game enough to get into making a real vader bucket from scratch just yet [I'd have to learn how to make molds and stuff] and I was a little daunted how much work my rubies vader would need.
So I decided to make an upsized helmet out of cardboard.
I used the measurements off my rubies helmet to make all the peices.
Still a work in progress, I'm posting this as incentive to get my arse into gear and finish it already.
Already made the mouth grill/mesh, and metal tusks.
I'm just trying to smoothen out the surfaces. I used car body filler to smoothen out the mask. Not sure what to do about the helmet though. Needs to be light enough to not weigh down the whole thing too much.
I sprayed it up with some black at one point to see how it was looking.
I see out the mouth and chin grills. Visability is ok.
lol:lol
