Vader ANH helmet showoff....
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Darth Kahnt
Sr Member
Lovely lid Thomas. I hope to own a GH ANH one day.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Very nice looking helmet you got there. :thumbsup
Lord Abaddon
Sr Member
That my friend is my dream helmet. Exactly like you've pictured it.
Thanks, guys. Well I've moved from shooting in the bathroom (white light :lol) to the kitchen...more room 
. I just use a halogen lamp bouncing off the ceiling and set my camera for auto-white balance and longer exposure times...no color manipulation in photoshop. I use a manfrotto tripod since I'm not using flash (lighting too harsh) and its indoors. I just have a handful of helmets in my collection...not like some of the hugely impressive helmet collections some here have (Lord Sandy's comes to mind). Ya those wayward tusks...I just taped them on this GH helmet for the shots. Hope you guys can post photos of your helmets as well...whatever condition they are in .
. I just use a halogen lamp bouncing off the ceiling and set my camera for auto-white balance and longer exposure times...no color manipulation in photoshop. I use a manfrotto tripod since I'm not using flash (lighting too harsh) and its indoors. I just have a handful of helmets in my collection...not like some of the hugely impressive helmet collections some here have (Lord Sandy's comes to mind). Ya those wayward tusks...I just taped them on this GH helmet for the shots. Hope you guys can post photos of your helmets as well...whatever condition they are in .
vaderdarth
Master Member
Sweet Noggin Sithlord......very nice photography. You know your way around a camera.
Dave
Dave
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
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Turn the camera around... (sorry... couldn't help it...) :angel
A bit of trivia about the photos....the GH faceplate and helmet were mated only with two paired layers of velcro...there is no spacer...no mounting ring. Of course because of that the helmet sits back a bit further as well. Here's a comparison below of my JBV2 faceplate mated with the GH helmet (top row) and then the GH faceplate inside the same helmet (bottom row). The JBV2 requires a ring spacer a bit less than 1 inch tall.
Here are the same faceplates without the helmets on. JBV2 on left, GH on right. The JBV2 faceplate is nearly the same size/shape as a 20th Century ESB faceplate, for example. I'm always intrigued by differences between fan-made helmets such as these....
Here are the same faceplates without the helmets on. JBV2 on left, GH on right. The JBV2 faceplate is nearly the same size/shape as a 20th Century ESB faceplate, for example. I'm always intrigued by differences between fan-made helmets such as these....
yakcam
Sr Member
Awesome pics again Thomas :thumbsup
Well, I'm going crazy trying to get decent photos. These are the best I can do for the moment, for some reason they're grainy, they shouldn't be, they were taken in a room that cops the morning sun and is nice and light.
Well. here they are in all their grainy, blurry and detail lacking glory
One day I have to figure out how to use this bloody camera.
Cheers,
Kraig
Edit: I put 2 of the same pic up :unsure
Well, I'm going crazy trying to get decent photos. These are the best I can do for the moment, for some reason they're grainy, they shouldn't be, they were taken in a room that cops the morning sun and is nice and light.
Well. here they are in all their grainy, blurry and detail lacking glory
One day I have to figure out how to use this bloody camera.
Cheers,
Kraig
Edit: I put 2 of the same pic up :unsure
RKW
Sr Member
All ESB faceplates had a 1" dome mounting ring fitted on top and the actual ANH dome would have also had something inside the dome to reach the dome tabs on the faceplate. I would say that you've got your domes sat too high in the first place as the widows peak covers the top nose slot in the Tantive scenes so you could probably reduce the amount of velcro you're using. Using foam inside the dome like seen in ROTJ helps keep the dome straight.
Nice pics though, they'll come in handy
Nice pics though, they'll come in handy
