Krayt Dragon Mando helmet *Pic Intensive*

[Flachzange]

Hmm, not 100% sure where I know you from, the handle isn't familliar

No worries
TDH, I was following closely on your celtic design thread

 

[Rebabaluba]

Beautiful helmet! Those scales must've taken forever. Great job!

 

[Kavan]

I saw these over on the Mercs and A'den's finished helmet.

Very nice dragon.

 

[Darth Rikush]

wow man!!!

amazing work!!!

love it!

 

[damon5973]

looks great..I always wondered how far the customizing could go and the combination of the 2 is great..ever try a shark or soemthing..underwater mando helmet?

 

[Saz]

A shark is a possibility, though I try to keep things within Starwars though, hence why the dragon is a Krayt, so it would have to be a Starwars shark of some kind, I'd have to check all my resources to see if there was one I could use.

The scales did seem like it would take forever, I used a pottery needle to etch into the car body filler (bondo). I've bought some engraving needles for my Dremel now after suffering the blisters I got on my fingers!!!

 

[MagnusPrime]

:thumbsupThat is just amazing work!

 

[Saz]

A quick update on this, here is a cold cast helmet I produced for my own Mando outfit, the dragon was using a brass mixture and I painted into the dragon part of the mold before going over the rest of it with an aluminium mixture.

It was then cut out, painted up and pimped big time

And finally, here's one in mid kit construction, the armour is cold cast too:

I appreciate some purists may dislike it, but I've enjoyed making it

 

[GunsAndGloryFX]

Dude, this is cool. The sketch didn't have me convinced, but the proof is in the pudding. Love the lights and the brass dragon. Would love to see more of the dragon motif on the rest of the armor, but its pretty cool as is.

 

[firesprite]

WOW!!!! I'm totally loving this... I've been pondering doing a custom bounty hunter/mando costume for a LONG time now... I may have to bribe the hubby into doing something like this for me. :love

 

[Aestivalis]

Outstanding work on the sculpt. I am in awe, Sir.

 

[obiwan2]

Really diggin' the look of this!

 

[Saz]

WOW!!!! I'm totally loving this... I've been pondering doing a custom bounty hunter/mando costume for a LONG time now... I may have to bribe the hubby into doing something like this for me. :love

If you're serious about doing a mando costume, try www.mercs.firespray.net there are some great people around to help, especially with female armour.

 

[MooCriket]

As I stated in an earlier post: "Not a fan of customer mando's"...however, Man, you really pulled it off! GREAT WORK!!! You made me a believerthumbsup:thumbsup

 

[Saz]

As I stated in an earlier post: "Not a fan of customer mando's"...however, Man, you really pulled it off! GREAT WORK!!! You made me a believerthumbsup:thumbsup

Thank you, as I mentioned, I understand the purist point of view, however, I work long and hard turning the Mandalorian armour into an art form and I appreciate people understand what I am doing and purists accepting my work is a very great honour!

I think I'd be doing the the Star Wars franchise a disservice by trying to be a larger sized Boba or Jango Fett. So it's nice that the Mandalorians, as a culture, has a certain amount of leeway.

I hope my work is representation of the quality that all custom Mandos strive to, and knowing a lot of them, they do.

I also love that, some of my work has been televised in and American parade, I am really proud of that

Anyhoo, here's me on my last progress, forgive the codpiece, it has been modified since :lol

 

[Stinkape]

Nice ! great details ...