1:6 Scale Darth Vader and Star Wars Projects

[Too Much Garlic]

Anyone know if there are D-rings publicly available that is in size with a 1:6 scale lightsaber, or does it have to be custom made?

Thickness - 0.5mm
Hight - 3.904mm
Width - 5.364mm

 

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In case anyone's interested in seeing what I need to do to clean up the geometry.

The teeth gaps that still looks messy (to the left) has the whole inner edge separated, so it registers as unconnected. The issue comes from when I cut out that grill box shape on the inside of the face mask. I had missed a setting, so it didn't fuse the cut into the model, but kept the new shape as a separate piece.

Thankfully the other facemask's didn't have this issue.

And since I have to mess with every single polygon anyway... there's no reason not to simplify and clean things up. It will also remove size on the file. I couldn't use optimize or automatic tools, as that screwed up the shapes, so I'm doing things manually, fixing one polygon at a time. Which is fairly time-consuming.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Finally managed to get some energy to add the dome rings inside the ESB and RotJ domes that connects with the dome ring on top of the face masks. Uncertain whether the tolerance is good - we will see once we get some sets printed. I gave the ring and screw cutouts enough space, hopefully, for them to sit right every time, so they can just be glued down once the parts are painted.

Now I just need to fix some topology errors along the perimeter of the inside of the domes... that may take a few days' worth of work... and then I will have to figure out whether I will add a spacer inside the ANH dome so it will sit correct every time or whether I should just let people sort that, so they can match a specific dome position look from the movie themselves, which wouldn't be possible if I locked things down. The dome in that movie - due to the 3 apple tabs dome system - was all over the place. No wonder they changed it to the ring mounts, as people working on the movie and tour has stated that it was a complete PITA to put the dome on right and securely.

 

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Was pointed out by Mike Warren that I might have made the RotJ dome widows peak too straight, so I had help from a good friend to fix it and here's the result.

The change is minor, but the effect is major. Though I have seen RotJ helmets with the more square look... but it might have been fanmade ones or a trick of the light in medium res pictures. Uncertain.

Regardless... this is much better now. So thanks guys.

 

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All three together with approximate dome placement.

 

[Artofwalls]

When I was done with that I decided to go back and check whether it was the same on the ESB. From the reference I could find it appeared so. Much more tapered at the front and with sharper corners, however, this one also had a taper at the sides, unlike the RotJ, so I incorporated that. When working on it I found some bad geometry behind the coin slots that may have been the reason why the 3D print slicer reported errors with the model. These errors are not visible from the outside and the other 3D software didn't pick it up. But, I fixed it and from what I can tell the red lenses were the only difference between my model and the reference that I could find.
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If anyone can spot any other differences I would love to hear it.

In the TESB chestplate you have the top lettering upside down. Here is a movie screenshot for comparison.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

You are absolutely correct. Cannot believe I missed that. Thanks.