BARC Helmet kit Progress

[Army Scout]

One of our talented member over on BSN (PGHFETT - Mike) made a BARC trooper helmet kit. This is a Fiberglass resin combo. Very sturdy and looks good out of the box.

I finally got some time to start working on mit. I spent about 3 hours cutting sanding and bondin. Layed a few coats of paint and here is what she looks like now...

This kits has been a pleasure to work on. I am having a blast Forgot how much fun this is.

Now the paint scheme. I know Mike is doing the tan base coat, but I dont think its that dark. So am applying the standard gloss white. Once this is set, I will go over it with a tan wash, then camo it up then weather it. I need to hit the art supply store for some paints. So I thin I can have her ready in a week or so.

I'll keep everyone posted

Army Scout

 

[deralis]

Looking good... Cant wait to see the whole project when done

 

[yodasan]

Is it possible to buy one of these kits?

 

[steveo]

That looks really good and very screen accurate. I think it's a great sculpt and you did an excellent job on it, so I hope no one takes offense - but I think (my opinion) that has to be the UGLIEST helmet design in the Star Wars universe. This one and the Beehive clone. What were they thinking?

 

[Army Scout]

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Is it possible to buy one of these kits?
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Army Scout

 

[yodasan]

<div class='quotetop'>(steveo @ Jun 27 2006, 10:35 AM) [snapback]1269317[/snapback]</div>

That looks really good and very screen accurate. I think it's a great sculpt and you did an excellent job on it, so I hope no one takes offense - but I think (my opinion) that has to be the UGLIEST helmet design in the Star Wars universe. This one and the Beehive clone. What were they thinking?
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I can understand why you might feel this way - but I have to say that the Parjai "beehive" bucket looks
great to me. Speaking of which if anyone knows of anybody who has made (or is making) a custom
please let me know.

 

[Darth Kahnt]

The helmet is looking good so far.

I have to agree that it is not the nicest looking SW helmet ever but there are worse (ie: Rebel Trooper Helmet IMO)

 

[madphisto]

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[but I have to say that the Parjai "beehive" bucket looks
great to me. Speaking of which if anyone knows of anybody who has made (or is making) a custom
please let me know.
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You could look over at clonetroopers.net or maybe ask this guy http://www.shortimer52.com/BeehiveDomain.html as he has one.

Also, I recently saw a beehive in ebay (just google it) but it didn't look too good.

 

[UKscout]

chris,

looking realy good and sharpe, but from the pics is the helmet got deep scrathes already done on the helmet?

 

[cayman shen]

Looks great. Is the eyepiece a little low, or is that just a trick of the angle? The eyepeice in the movie seems unnaturally high (for a human, anyway).

 

[Army Scout]

<div class='quotetop'>(cayman shen @ Jun 28 2006, 05:28 PM) [snapback]1270342[/snapback]</div>

Looks great. Is the eyepiece a little low, or is that just a trick of the angle? The eyepeice in the movie seems unnaturally high (for a human, anyway).
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Hehe, it has to be lower, otherwise we could not see out of it

 

[madphisto]

Hey army Scout I think you could double the depth of the slit.
At least on screen it looks a bit bigger in depth.