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Thanks for the update Wyatt. I've emailed a few textile mills here in the UK to see if they have any old stock. It's a long shot I know, but worth a try

Looking good K

Just going by what the man himself quoted Great new layout of your site Jez, I like it!

Brian sculpted the armour and then the plasterers at Elstree made the moulds from this, then fibreglass castings were made to vacuum form over. These were then sent to AA after the vac machine at Elstree was faulty, so AA continued to pull the majority of the armour used in the movie. It's believed AA did some refining to the helmet moulds in order to make them more user friendly, though this is not concrete, just what AA has said. It's been proven he did not sculpt the helmet or armour, but he may have sculpted the ear caps, knee caps and other greeblies to make up the complete stormtrooper as we see it on screen compared to what was made at Elstree before filming started. Just a bit of background info there

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Looking good Mark! Okay, here's my guess for the helmet stack... Top: TE Hero Middle: TM ESB - DL ESB Bottom: TE2 'MNS' TE HDPE - DL ANH

Any updates on this?

Okay, found him....on the left

That particular helmet was used in the promotion shoot and it wasn't worn by either Luke or Han. I am sure it was used in ANH somewhere, I just haven't looked hard enough for it.

Just as I thought. I have a full suit of glossy 1.5mm HIPS which I made a couple of years ago and even though it does flex quite a bit, it does crack when flexed too far. This new plastic can be bent over backwards and will not break. I will have to get a couple of photos to show just how good this new armour will be.

That's not Luke's helmet.

Here's a couple of screen grabs courtesy of RoCKo

That piece of gaffer tape is actually holding down another piece of gaffer tape which is wrapped around the black elastic strap from the bottom of the shoulder bell. This is done to keep the biceps from falling down, since there was no strapping for the biceps. This picture makes the bicep look an odd shape (which some believe to be the correct shape) but in reality it is simply the elastic strap being pulled down over the bicep. I believe the reason why the armour looks so scuffed and beat up in the Tanive IV raid is because it was one of the last scenes to be filmed. The scuffed up armour really looks SWEET!

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I don't think there were three helmet moulds in ROTJ. The reason it looks different from the two other ROTJ helmets is because the moulds have been messed with. The back and cap is too small and the forehead too big. I would say that this helmet is just a recast of one of his old ROTJ's from a decade ago. It would be great to see it side by side with your original Joe.

Looking SWEET Mark!

All my armour has return edges, the flexible armour is no different. I get my white E6000 from the states.

It may be flexible, but is it unbreakable?

Nate, I mark out out the width of the strip with a pencil and then use a metal spirit level (or any stright edge will do) and a utility knife and lightly score the first cut. A second score usually gets through the plastic, but if not, just bend and snap. Make sure to cut the corners off at 45 degrees at each end, so the bottom would look like this \___/ for authenticity Now hurry up and get the kit finished!

Leave about one inch of the strap showing and only one rivet per strap for stunt or two for hero. Punch a hole roughly half an inch from the bottom edge of the belt for stunt and an extra one the same distance from the top if going for a hero. Use a rivet and a washer on the back side to prevent it pulling through the canvas.

I have a couple of pairs available now

"That's impossible....even for a computer" For me, it has to be 100% screen accurate. That means using the same materials, assembly and hardware that was used back in 1976 when the original ANH armour was made. You cannot be screen accurate any other way IMO. I love for my helmets to have paint chips....to be held together with gaffer tape and to to be rough as hell. The original ANH armour and helmets are what I strive to replicate, no matter how bad they look to anyone else, I love them

Thin channel goes on the helmet, thick channel goes to the inside for ANH. For ROTJ the thin channel went on the helmet while the thick channel went to the outside.

I use white ABS adhesive for this suit, very simialr to what was used originally, but it does crack if stressed too far. White E6000 would be better for costuming. I am not sure if it is available in black, sorry.

The touring suits are night and day different from the ANH suits. They used poly webbing for the belts, around 50mm, not canvas. Hopefully we can find the original material or item used for the real belts because so far, I have yet to see a truly screen accurate belt from anyone.