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budspencer1971

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  1. If i had the cash. i'd put a big sign on the highway saying shop at Mike's the best stormtrooper depot this side of the outer rim! I bet Watto would be green with envy! cheers!
  2. HI Mike, as always you are the guru! a few videos suggestions for the noobs like me. -How to prep and attach the green visor inside the helmet. -How to put chin straps. -How you do your Hovi mix tips...with screws or glued.... thanks you should make a "making of DVD and sell it"
  3. ahahhahah everything is proceeding as i have foreseen ahahahahah !!! goood good!!!! I hope your store expands too!!! lots of nice stuff in there! my new shopping place when budget permits!
  4. Mike, while i am thinking about this, would you make some tubestripes templates for the move along helmet?
  5. Hi Guys, Just to let you know that TK4510 (Mike) sells stuff to make your helmets cool! I ordered a kit of Humbrol paint last week or so and i already have them in my hand from California to New Brunswick Canada, faster than light speed!!! I have nothing but good things to say and big 2 thumbs Up! I ll actually order some more of that hard to find paint and maybe a few other things from him! He did not disappoint me that is for sure!
  6. Hi again Panda, ------- the question i am trying to find the answer for is this... going with the your photo how long should the tube stripes be from one end to the other and how wide or tall should the stripes be? i am supposed to get an ATA (yeah!) helmet so you may know roughly the proper size for the measurements of the tube stripes. i can resize them in gimp after... thanks for your patience...
  7. thanks Panda this is very much appreciated! cheers!
  8. this might help answer your question: Move along information link
  9. Lol if you look at this closely you can see E.T weird ahahahahahah
  10. Hi all, I have seen a few helmets that seem to have a layer of solid thick foam in them plus the leaf foam...example move along helmet... is there are better reference or tutorial on how to reproduce this? thanks
  11. again i am trying to solve that blue mystery for myself. like most everyone i tend to agree that french blue is the color of the tube stripes but then again some new photos i have seen seem to suggest that the blue might be of a different shade... ---- if you look at the Dave M helmet here down the webpage the color is blueish with some green in it. ------ I would say that the shade the blue changes depending on the lighting situation on the helmet but it seems that the Dave M helmet photos are correctly lit and do not suffer from shadows of other inteference. Then again several blues might have been used to pain the helmets, who knows, that is the nice thing about this....the mystery!
  12. For myself and others i have decided to collect as much pictures of the move along helmet as possible for reference purposes and the detail obssessed like me. Credits go to all original photographers~! as soon as i find more photos i will post them! Information about helmet can be found here: ----- Original post ------- Photos credit: Gonk27 as you will see you get some really awesome detailed view of the helmet if you want to reproduce it.
  13. of all the ways i have seen to try to recreate the look of an helmet, i think this rates pretty high. ----- of course he re-created an archived look for this helmet but i would say that i would consider this also just a notch above being screen acurate with all the paint chip offs that probably happened over time and after the movie was made. like i said in a previous thread, i think Bobba as the best way to do this so far... as least for the helmet... i was also toying with the idea of trying to roll the paint on the helmet with a small paint roler instead of spraying with a can or using a paint brush...paint rollers have a way of leaving the paint texturized in some distinct way that might be somewhat accurate to how the helmets are painted...
  14. Same here i wish them nothing but the best in those hard times!
  15. what i am trying to achieve is the textured look of the helmet as they are in the films... as we all know and from what i understand these were made from hdpe plastic and painted over, probably with paintbrushes since they are paint streaks on many of the helmets. that alone gives the helmets a definitive texture and look and i am trying to formulate different ways to simulate this. also the color is an issue. ok most of us will paint their helmet gloss white with krylon or the rustoleum stuff but i do not think that the helmets were pure white to begin with. they looked white on screen because that is the way the eyes perceive them due to photography and most of the time your point of view was not very close to the helmets for very obvious reasons so we could not really tell if these were pure white and i would say no... why? well the HDPE color makes a difference i would say...because you got sorta of kakhi color and you try to paint a white over it...so you are basically trying to hide a very saturated color with white with paintbrushes which most of the time does not give a smooth cover and it looked like porous paint so the mix of hdpe and the white gives the off white color to the helmet plus the tiem effect and other natural events like the chemical change in the paitn over the last 3 decades + .... For all appearances the helmet looks like a light cream to me...ok dont scream! i know you are gonna say it is aged and sunlight and other things have afffected the color and i am gonna say that you are right also. but if you look at reproducing the archive look ( as i call it) it is going to be damn hard... that is what i am trying to figure out... i am gonna run some test on spare plastic parts when i get the helmet and when the snow has melted here. Looked like Hoth here a couple of weeks ago! Krylon has some different ones and dover white seems to be the color that is white but with that hint of yellowing into it which the archive helmets looks like. It may or may not work... but i am sure as hell gonna find a way to have that HDPE color under and have some off white color above by hook or by crook. also looking at some still from ANH i think that move along was chipped a bit in some few places to make him look used and i would not be surprise if the helmet was not dipped in a bucket of hash and cleaned off just before the shot...if you look at the still it looks more like hash than dust on his helmet. and also it looks like this as entirely cleaned off after since the helmet does not seem to have that dirty Mos Eisley's look anymore. it was sure as hell not something they sprayed on to make it look dirty.. personnally i dont like the idea of spraying brown paint on the helmet to simulate desert sand because it looks too fake and people tend to overdo the effect too much... but i am a very picky man and that is my opinions which you may not share and i agree to disagree. but because i like this stuff too much. i ll share my findings and it it helps anyone then it will be all for the good of the troopers. Bud Out! for now...
  16. i agree the sandtroopers are the ones that get dirty... i am still trying to decide on a method to replicate the paint color and paint scheme of the TD's.... i ll share my ideas as i go...
  17. what i meant is that you can do a TK or a TD but how far do you want to go with your helmet? do you want to keep it brand new, make it scrren accurate or make it look like one of those star wars helmets.com helmets..... this topic is to share tips and tricks on how to achieve details and i am looking more for paint details like what paint to use, what color to use etc etc etc... example: well instead of a full gloss white to give it a clean look i used a cream colored paint and here are the results....
  18. The 3 states of helmets and armours weathering. this is my perssonnal view of the subject and it is debatable and not set in stone... I am trying to do some research on what type of look the helmet I want should have. From what I have seen there are basically 3 states that the storm trooper could be. Please discuss the state or state you want and ad your tips on how you might have achieved a specific state as describe below. Fresh out of the factory: You make your Helmet or armor but you keep it clean and you do not weather it at all but buff it up as hell to make it shinny which gives it a sort of “coming out of the factory†look. This look is not to difficult to reproduce and is made by a lot of people who “troop†Screen accurate: Weathering is used and the details on the screen are as accurately reproduced as possible. Troopers like this look also. Actual present day state of the helmet of armour or Archive look: the state of the helmets as they are now, sometimes missing some pieces, color has changed and other details on the helmet are prominent as seen on starwarshelmet.com
  19. Hi all, Does anyone wanna share their tube stripes masking templates? dont want to undercut those who are selling them but if you wanna share yours you would have a taker here... peace
  20. That and the hole you made with the hole puncher just above the ears where the brow trim and ears meet...how big did you make it?
  21. well wada ya know...waht would be cool is to find the real origin of this piece of history.. most people have the details but not the specific origins... but i was right...it is a plumbing part nonetheless... i tought about this and it may the inside part of a faucet aerator assembly also...so that may explain why it is so hard to find... oh well that is is what is fun about the lore of star wars, it is always fun to discover!
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