generalgrevious
Super Freak
alright some hard copy photos. please keep up the great work
Amazing stuff!! Can’t wait to get my hands on some of these when you start to sell them. So will you be attempting to create the stormtrooper armour as well, or just the helmets?
I am hoping to get access to ANH and RotJ stormtrooper armor to get scanned in the future... but it is hard to get things done, since the logistics of getting it done is a real PITA. + having something like a full set of armor printed on a professional printer in the quality I'm getting these pieces printed at is gonna be really expensive, probably $1000+, so I need to be sure whether it is at all doable, as it also costs money to get the pieces scanned, so it's a rather big investment.
Paul Carson was gracious enough to show some pictures of the early castings. He ran into some problem with a bad batch of resin, which is why the surface has a lot of air bubbles and issues. He's getting a new batch and will make more castings, but we thought it could be nice to see even these rough casts until we have something better to show. He tried casting the chest and belt boxes and sabers too (created by Jesse J. McClear and finished by me), but they have so many small parts, so they'll most likely be 3D printed. We are looking into finding a really good, but not too expensive resin printer for this.
ANH - "Set For Stun" - Stormtrooper helmet:
(scanned from an original screen used helmet - the Stormtrooper that says the line: "There's one. Set For Stun!")
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"RotJ" - or known in fandom as an ESB mkII - Stormtrooper helmet. (Still working on getting a deal struck for a pure RotJ, but until then, this is close enough. You can even see the squashed in look to the left side of the face that is indicative of the ESB mkII and RotJ helmets, compared to the ANH):
(3D scanned by Mike Warren)
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ANH Darth Vader helmet - DJ scan - the DJ was made from the US Rick Baker mold made from the original screen used helmet that produced the tour helmets and later the eFX helmets. Also known as the ILM Mold:
(3D scanned by Mike Warren, 3D models fused by me, 3D models refined and finished by Dan DynamicMenace and Gaurav Kumar, grills and tusk models created by Jesse J. McClear and refined by me)
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ESB Darth Vader helmet - TM scan - the TM is from the ESB UK production mold lineage, which differs from the US mold in terms of details.
(3D scanned by Mike Warren, 3D models fused by me, 3D models refined and finished by Dan DynamicMenace and Gaurav Kumar, grills and tusk models created by Jesse J. McClear and refined by me)
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ANH Darth Vader chest armor - DJ scan - cast at the same time he made the helmet from molds made off the original ANH armor. Compared to most fan available armor, this one has the correct shape.
(3D scanned by Mike Warren, 3D models fused by me, 3D models refined and finished by Dan DynamicMenace and Gaurav Kumar)
, on Flickr
Darth Vader shins - Dan DynamicMenace had these 3D models created by Gaurav Kumar using reference as well as 3D models I originally scanned for the v1 scans from casts that link back to DJ's cast shins - original work.
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Wow! This is still THE most important 1/6 custom project of the past decade. It's taken years but it looks like these might be available by the end of this year.
They will come unpainted. We are working as fast as we can, but are not making the casts ready for HT or Sideshow bodies, so if we paint them, it may be ruined when buyers attempt to make the casts compatible to whatever they have. We will paint up a test set to show how they will look painted and we will be providing paint guides.
They will come unpainted. We are working as fast as we can, but are not making the casts ready for HT or Sideshow bodies, so if we paint them, it may be ruined when buyers attempt to make the casts compatible to whatever they have. We will paint up a test set to show how they will look painted and we will be providing paint guides.
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