Hi guys.
So I'm this seller. Before you start to throw me things to the head, please read what I've to say about this helmet.
First of all, you have to know that I'm a total noob about Darth Vader's helmets (you can ask what you want about TK or C 3PO helmet, but Vader is for me, a too dark area on the prop world).
I got this helmet in a trade.
I know that you'll say that it is the usual story, nevertheless, it's true. Believe me or not, but I'm not in the prop collection to cause any troubles.
I've had a good talk with Nick (Darth Niob) on ebay and regarding all the informations he brought me, I decided to accept to remove the auction.
Maybe it's not the helmet that you think but I'm not able to discuss of a subject where I've no knowledge.
I would like to open a bracket about the C 3PO helmet previously listed. It wasn't a recast and a true ZORG helmet kit, bought form him on RPF. And I guess you already saw the chrome trooper helmet. It has been made from a TE ROTJ helmet kit.
Now about this Vader helmet. As I said, I got it in a trade (I gave a stormtrooper helmet in exchange). I came from Australia for sure and got it from a guy named bentley otool (or something like that). And if I remember well, it's about 2 years ago now.
He had other props to offer (from other movies).
I kept it in his box a long time since I had other projects at the moment.
I planned to "rework" it since it was a little bit dirty and not enough gloss to me (I wanted a shiny helmet just like a MR finish, glossy like a glass).
Some month ago, I decided to do this little work on the helmet. And as a stupid guy, I used the first automotive varnish that I found in a can. It has a bad reaction with the helmet and I destroyed the finish.
A little bit disgusted, I started to gently sand it in order to restore the paint job. But it was very long and decided to stop the carnage.
Thus I used the «*ugly*» helmet as a test base for a chrome paint (which have been really help full in order to paint the ZORG C 3PO and the stormtrooper helmet).
I know that many of you wil consider me as a fool for this stupid choice, or a liar for this story. But it's the true.
I had many great helmet on my hands, with a true lineage. Mainly TK helmets kit like GINO, TE2, TE, CFO and other. I'm actually working on a RSProp helmet. And I've never been tempted to recast any of them.
I "only" recasted two helmets: Biker Scout from Don Post (in order to create an accurate lid) and a CAP TK helmet in order to create ESB MK2/ ROTJ v1 stormtrooper helmets (and I asked CAP before).
But I'll stop to tell my life since it's not the subject.
Now I have more information about the story of the TM helmet (thanks Nick), I totally understand that some of you could be disgusted. And I'm really sorry about that.
