New Vader 3d sculpt

[chris1748]

Just WOW! This seems like it will be the definitive fan-made helmet.

Chris

 

[Frogfreak]

Just WOW! This seems like it will be the definitive fan-made helmet.

Chris

Thank you so much! That’s the hope. At least in terms of non lineage castings. Nothing will ever be able to beat lineage casts.

 

[Frogfreak]

Also, as for another update, I believe i have completed all the parts for the outside of the upper half of the helmet now...

And As per Kroenen77's Suggestion, the disk for the crown has been slightly rounded off at the edges, with the front being a little shaper than the rest.

 

[Anakin Starkiller]

Ohhh. Nice refinement! Way to dial in the details.

 

[Frogfreak]

Ohhh. Nice refinement! Way to dial in the details.

Thank you my good sir!

 

[Woody]

Just amazing 3D modelling work. Looks phenomenal.

 

[Sym-Cha]

Chaïm

 

[Anakin Starkiller]

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Chaïm

Do we know exactly which camera these came out of?

 

[Sym-Cha]

Yep Copal MXV shutters from a Seagull :

And Yashica-Mat D :

Yashica-Mat D with this logo :

Chaïm

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Looks cool. Can you post a direct side shot of the bottom of the mask with the neckbrace on? Just want to see if you have tucked it enough into the back of the mask.

 

[Frogfreak]

Ask and you shall receive!

Let me know what could be adjusted! and if you have any good reference of the trulife airflow collar laid out, i'd be appreciative, that goes for anyone though.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Sadly, I don't have much reference for the reveal. I just noticed once that people tended to not tuck the collar enough into the rear of the mask. It should go in quite a bit making the greeblies on the collar sit rather more squeezed than you see in replicas.

 

[Frogfreak]

Sadly, I don't have much reference for the reveal. I just noticed once that people tended to not tuck the collar enough into the rear of the mask. It should go in quite a bit making the greeblies on the collar sit rather more squeezed than you see in replicas.

Ah, gotcha, how far off is mine would you say?

 

[Sym-Cha]

And this should help with re-aligning all those small 'cubits' on top since they all do touch on the inner circle :

You can see the exact shape of the smaller 'cubits' here (i.e. see top right) :

Chaïm

 

[Frogfreak]

I forgot to show this last night, but i've decided to rework the neck brace, so i found some reference of the trulife collar laid out, and i'm working on my own pattern, that i plan to try printing in tpe as a prototype. Here's the current progress on the W.I.P.

 

[Reel Fakes]

This is outstanding work. As someone who has trudged though two of these, I'm very excited to see another direction to go!

 

[Frogfreak]

This is outstanding work. As someone who has trudged though two of these, I'm very excited to see another direction to go!

That is highly appreciated, for as long as the reveal aspect has been hidden, I’m glad some real progress has been made recently.

Also, non modeling update, my 3d printer is projected to arrive within this week, so prototyping will soon begin

 

[Frogfreak]

Well, does anyone have any tips? i reference the original collar, then added the reveal parts, did the original reveal collar get trimmed for the helmet? it feels like there's so much extra room on the ends...

 

[ZeroSum]

Looking at Sym-Cha's photo from above, it really does look like it's had the ends cut off.

 

[Frogfreak]

Looking at Sym-Cha's photo from above, it really does look like it's had the ends cut off.

I feel like that's the only answer that makes sense, otherwise it wouldn't fit on the helmet right.