The Rocketeer Helmet Project

wow I certainly wasnt expecting some thing of this magnitude when I opened this thread. Thats so cool you have a piece of history.
 
really love the small scale scanned helmets! really cool that you own one from the production molds, threads like this are what make the rpf awesome. come on...reconsider on offering those printed scaled helmets...you know you'd make a lot of people happy :love :behave
 
My loving Helmet, the perfect concept. I love the works make by master replicas. Cant wait to released a new accurate perfect helmet.

Of course see your progress on the helmet, 3D print is just amazing
 
Here is the mold of the 1/4 scale helmet and the first, reject, rotocasting, cut in half.

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These castings are for this year's Christmas ornament for family and friends.

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It's a little tricky for my eyes seeing such a perfectly proportioned helmet at that scale, :lol

Awesome work so far! Are there other full-size helmet castings from the original mold floating around or mainly just the ones you have?


-Carson
 
deadbolt said:
It's a little tricky for my eyes seeing such a perfectly proportioned helmet at that scale, :lol

Awesome work so far! Are there other full-size helmet castings from the original mold floating around or mainly just the ones you have?


-Carson
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Yes, I smile whenever I pick one up. They are just too cool!

These two original castings are the only ones I know of. There are some recasts (or recasts of recasts of recasts...) floating around. Four of the original props have been sold at auction over the years, two hero helmets (one with the bullet crease), a stunt helmet (built around a motorcycle crash helmet), and a partial helmet (front and top only, no sides) used by the parachuting stuntman that fell off the plane. Disney has several helmets in their archives and I know of two other original helmets, one screen used helmet owned by a friend of mine and another original helmet, not screen used, made by Design Setters (the shop where they were made) for display in their offices, which was sold to a collector when they went out of business a few years ago.
 
I wish I was a friend that received those for Christmas ! Love the build and the history behind them. From one Finhead to another Awesome Job !
 
DaveG said:
Yes, I smile whenever I pick one up. They are just too cool!

These two original castings are the only ones I know of. There are some recasts (or recasts of recasts of recasts...) floating around. Four of the original props have been sold at auction over the years, two hero helmets (one with the bullet crease), a stunt helmet (built around a motorcycle crash helmet), and a partial helmet (front and top only, no sides) used by the parachuting stuntman that fell off the plane. Disney has several helmets in their archives and I know of two other original helmets, one screen used helmet owned by a friend of mine and another original helmet, not screen used, made by Design Setters (the shop where they were made) for display in their offices, which was sold to a collector when they went out of business a few years ago.
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Very interesting, thanks for filling in some of the back story! I didn't realize until now just how rare those helmets of yours are..:love

Such an awesome project!


-Carson
 
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