Final helmet update:
The imperial cog is my favorite emblem and I thought it would look nice on the side of the blast shield.
A sticker might have been the easiest way, but it needed to be heavily worn off. That required more work…
Okay, here we go...
A plaque was required, as this helmet will be in my RS collection and there it would look odd without it.
The layout is close to the original RS plaques and I weathered it to match the style of this bucket.
This project was planned for winter 2020/2021 and now comes to an end. Building something outside the CRL restrictions was indeed real fun.
Would I do it again? Yes! It was more difficult than a normal helmet (oh wonder) but worth the effort.
Maybe I would use a little brighter kind of green (like TS-5, TS-28 or even TS-78). And I would add an aiming device on the right eye. It still hurts to not have it.
Anyway, it was a fun journey and I really enjoyed to run a build thread again. Many thanks to everyone here for reading and commenting.
Actually I wanted this post to end with a 360 degrees video of the helmet with all lights on.
Sounds easy, but after 13 takes I still ended up with issues on lighting, auto-focus and a wobbly rotation.
So instead, I now close it with the final list of modifications and a few pictures:
1 - Blast Shield
2 - Black Interior
3 - Two-tone paint job
4 - Antenna and radio
5 - Utility belt
6 - Universal supply box
7 - Bacta canister (illuminated)
8 - Helmet flashlights
9 - Breathing tube
10 - Kill marks
11 - Aurebesh letterings
12 - Imperial cog on blast shield
13 - Skull face
14 - Weathering and paint chips
15 - ‘flesh wound with guts‘
16 - Greeblies
17 - Blaster marks
18 - Helmet stand with customized display plaque
Have a nice weekend Troopers and Cadets.