ANH Buckets

[Solo_bones]

Why always sideways??

 

[Solo_bones]

Maybe the orientation?

 

[Adam1138]

Maybe the orientation?

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Superb mate. It's amazing how now that the helmets look so accurate it makes the inaccuracies of the armour stand out, whereas with the HT helmet on the body I never really noticed them to much.

 

[TaliBane]

Cool stuff, Will. I started painting mine last night. I'm definitely going to be getting some more. Its an awesome helmet.

Can you or Solo post a pic of how it arrives. Just a bit worried about the roughness. You'd think by now consumer 3D printers would be capable of pretty smooth finish.

 

[Solo_bones]

That's how the old version came out. I had him use a better media. Here's that pic.



This was with a quick spray of primer...I later used Mr Surfacer...one coat and it was smooth. No need on primer before mr.surfacer. I just did it to quickly show contrast on photos, compared to the clear finish that comes with ultra fine print media.

 

[anwe]

I've been following this thread sporadically at best, well to be honest just drooling at the pictures. But what are we buying a pressure cooker for, you will clean up the prints to have a perfect helmet and then do recasts of it and other assorted stuff?

If so, I'm there. I only wish I had bought more HT stormies then.

 

[Solo_bones]

Yes. We can cast smoothie helmets and with a casting pressure pot we can also produce variants. So think about cutting the mask off of this version, extending the forehead and then rising the helmet to get the Move Along look and any combination of raised or lowered brow seam. It's just there to hide the seam of the overlapping helmet...so removing and adding a new brow doesn't match what was done in the films. In addition to that we can cast other things...it will be good.

We just need about two more people to completely fund the effort.

 

[Spudtrooper]

Can you or Solo post a pic of how it arrives. Just a bit worried about the roughness. You'd think by now consumer 3D printers would be capable of pretty smooth finish.

Here's how mine came. Pretty smooth to begin with but I think I'm going to get some Mr. Surfacer to help with some areas of the helmet.

 

[Solo_bones]

Awesome! You got the new version with ultra detail. The scan produced shadows on the mask so that shows up as a little rough patch on first coat. Just give it a second coat and sand down a bit. If you apply Mr. Surfacer just right you might be able to skip sanding. Either way it's not too much work. Wash that thing really well first. I dip it in acetone to wash off the chemicals.

 

[Spudtrooper]

Yeah it accepted the base coat of paint really well.

 

[Solo_bones]

Ok, so far on the record I have;

SB: $75.00
S; 50.00
Adam; $75.00
ZE; ?
New Member; $75.00

Subtotal: $350.00. Assuming ZE is in for $50.00, we'll be at $400.00. That starts to pay for materials such as resin, mold casting and supplies. I'll need to buy misc plumbing parts to seal up the pressure pot for casting and all the cups and supplies for molds and whatnot. Need to account or some trial and error...but I've been reading and watching videos to eliminate as much as possible.

This is an endeavor....but at least we can created many bucket variants and work on variation paint apps. I know I'll want a couple helmets per sandtrooper.

OK, who's ready to get this thing going? We just need one or maybe two more people to cover supplies for resin and miscellaneous pieces.

 

[agonistes86]

I'd be in for $50 or so as well.

 

[Solo_bones]

Ok, great! This brings us to $450.00. Should cover just about everything that I know about;

Pressure pot
Compressor
Castin Resin
Resin mold silicone
Misc plumbing parts
Gloves/cups/sritsticks

 

[anwe]

Direct me were to pay the moneys and I will chip in too.

 

[Solo_bones]

Gents, my paypal is [email protected]

Is everyone ready?

 

[Spudtrooper]

Did some painting work tonight. Pretty fun. Just have to paint the blue lines on the sides and the little black bars inside the gray indentions. And speaker mics of course.

 

[The Beginner basher]

I dabble with moulding & casting and have all but the pressure pot. I'll be watching this with interest. I work in a builders yard and was thinking of trying the pipe fittings chamber. Failing that, my mother has an old pressure cooker that can be modified.

 

[agonistes86]

Gents, my paypal is [email protected]

Is everyone ready?

Would it make sense to put a number on what's needed (i.e., $450), and then split the total across everybody involved? If a few people chip in $75 but some only $50, I feel those chipping in more should get more than those who do less, but it's difficult to split that properly, since the output can't be divided as easily. I'd be more than happy to do $65 or so instead of $50, if that means everybody chips in the same and we're all on the same level.

 

[Solo_bones]

Great work, Spudtrooper!! Fantastic paint job.

 

[Solo_bones]

Would it make sense to put a number on what's needed (i.e., $450), and then split the total across everybody involved? If a few people chip in $75 but some only $50, I feel those chipping in more should get more than those who do less, but it's difficult to split that properly, since the output can't be divided as easily. I'd be more than happy to do $65 or so instead of $50, if that means everybody chips in the same and we're all on the same level.

Yeah, I broke it out earlier but I can do an itemized list later. For the money people should make out. One helmet on Shapeways is about $38.00...so getting only three helmets pays for the investment...should be able to make more than that.