HDPE Helmet: The real deal.
Back in 1976, before the main shooting for SW started, the art and costume department came up with all the props and armors for ANH. At that time, Stormtrooper armor was sculpted by Brian Muir based on the concept designs by Ralph McQuarry. At that time the famous Stormtrooper helmet was sculpted by Liz Moore. A legend was created.
When the sculpts were ready, armor and helmet had to be pulled from plastic. Being white ABS the choice for the armor and green High Density Polyethylene HDPE for the helmet.
Jump to this days, Stromtrooper armor is pulled by a bunch of makers in a few different plastic. From ABS to HIPS... and a few in HDPE. But only RS Propmasters pull a helmet with first generation moulds derived from real screen used armor in the original accurate HDPE.
This IS the holy grail of Stormtrooper helmets for prop/armor builders. And is the only kind of helmet I would feel 100% happy with if I want to build a completely accurate armor in the ANH fashion, style and technique.
My helmet was not only pulled in HDPE by RS Propmasters, but expertly finished by them. put together and detailed by hand in the same way original armor was made in '76.
So, with no further word, this is my RS HDPE Stormtrooper helmet.
posted by plasta at 3:55 PM
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Okay, the original helmets were sloppily made and some of them had their eye sockets cut out in a haste and had more or less of the plastic material left, so no helmet looked exactly like the other. There is one - ONE(!) - existing original helmet that has this little bump of leftover material in the right eye socket and now every single "screen accurate" bucket out there seems to have this little bump, it's ridiculous!
You guys know, that there probably have been much more helmets without that flaw on that particular spot than with it, right?! ;)
Hey Jules... How are you? Thx for reading...
I have to say that yes, we all SW prop enthusiasts and specially Stormtrooper armor enthusiasts know that. This, however, is a replica of that exact helmet. Made with the intention to look exactly as the Move Along helmet. Results might be or not perfect, but that is the idea. Just as my own Move Along replicad (showed in another post).
To further discuss or read about how I tackled the sloppy way original TK armor was put together, you can go to the FISD whitearmor.net and look up the thread "My next project: a Tantive IV boarding party armor replica"
You might find it interesting...
Saludos.
J
PS. My original account was lost, so I have to reply on this new
one.
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