Hey guys! I wanted to share some progress on a project that has been brewing up for quite some time now.
I'm sure some of you know I'm a bit of a Stormtrooper nut... so an accurate suit is obviously something I've been dreaming of for years and years now. And it all starts with a proper helmet, right?
I've had two of the green polyethylene RS lids for a while now. While the first one I got will stay in it's raw form, the second I am planning to paint and weather to match the filming helmets as closely as possible - as part of my as-accurate-as-I-could-possibly-make-it display TK as mentioned above.
Here is a pic of my two beauties, accompanied by a third which I recently built for our very own Trap Joe:
The weather here in Germany is really nice right now, winter was cancelled this year and spring starts with a bang (global warming?! *put in conspiratorial grin*), perfect time to do some paint work! So I went ahead and hosed the second one with white paint (of course with a sublayer of red primer, not that anyone will notice, except for the mist inside... but we want accuracy here, right?
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So here it is now, all white with the paint curing up as I write this... already looking forward to chipping some of it off, showing the nice green plastic beneath.
If you look closely you will see some paint runs on there, these are absolutely intentional, as I want this to capture the spirit of a production-used helmet.
Got a bunch of vintage Newey snaps stashed away for the chin strap already, just need to find some accurate elastic to go with them. I also have some vintage foam left over that I ripped out of some old furniture which will make an excellent foam star for the padding!
I'll keep you guys posted on the painting progress, and on the armour build as well if there's interest - but I warn you guys, this will be a slow build, I'm still gathering all the needed bits and bobs to make it as accurate as I can, there is no need to rush this for me, I really want to make it right... which means copying/simulating as much of the sloppy nature of the real suits as I possibly can. This will not be an all neat and tidy build, quite the opposite!
That's it for now, if you like what you see, give my good friends at RS Propmasters a shout - they offer the finest ANH stunt replica to date in my humble opinion. Doesn't get much better than a first gen cast off an original I guess?
I'm sure some of you know I'm a bit of a Stormtrooper nut... so an accurate suit is obviously something I've been dreaming of for years and years now. And it all starts with a proper helmet, right?
I've had two of the green polyethylene RS lids for a while now. While the first one I got will stay in it's raw form, the second I am planning to paint and weather to match the filming helmets as closely as possible - as part of my as-accurate-as-I-could-possibly-make-it display TK as mentioned above.
Here is a pic of my two beauties, accompanied by a third which I recently built for our very own Trap Joe:
The weather here in Germany is really nice right now, winter was cancelled this year and spring starts with a bang (global warming?! *put in conspiratorial grin*), perfect time to do some paint work! So I went ahead and hosed the second one with white paint (of course with a sublayer of red primer, not that anyone will notice, except for the mist inside... but we want accuracy here, right?
) So here it is now, all white with the paint curing up as I write this... already looking forward to chipping some of it off, showing the nice green plastic beneath.
If you look closely you will see some paint runs on there, these are absolutely intentional, as I want this to capture the spirit of a production-used helmet.
Got a bunch of vintage Newey snaps stashed away for the chin strap already, just need to find some accurate elastic to go with them. I also have some vintage foam left over that I ripped out of some old furniture which will make an excellent foam star for the padding!
I'll keep you guys posted on the painting progress, and on the armour build as well if there's interest - but I warn you guys, this will be a slow build, I'm still gathering all the needed bits and bobs to make it as accurate as I can, there is no need to rush this for me, I really want to make it right... which means copying/simulating as much of the sloppy nature of the real suits as I possibly can. This will not be an all neat and tidy build, quite the opposite!
That's it for now, if you like what you see, give my good friends at RS Propmasters a shout - they offer the finest ANH stunt replica to date in my humble opinion. Doesn't get much better than a first gen cast off an original I guess?
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