inside the bucket

[shdwtrpr13]

So as I'm waiting on the replacement part for my bucket I'v been thinking of a way to make the inside of my helmet something that would be cool for kids to see. I know for several buckets like boba fett and the TK there are some rubber molds to make them look screen accurate/awsome. I was wondering if anyone hand done this with a TB helmet before?

 

I have a guy in my garrison that loves to play around with concept molds. he even did a half mask vader for a guy. I was going to give him the deminsions for the face of the mask and some rough ideas with what the biker scout has intigrated in their helmets. Sure this will add alittle weight but I'm a volunteer firefighter I'm used to my helmets having weight for long durations. and I want the kids to see something that makes them think wow cool when i flip up the face shield of the helmet.

[NegativeEleven]

Don't know if you've seen the terrible fiberglass helmet I bought on ebay (I believe it was originally a Star Fortress). The snout sticks out kinda far (much more than an accurate helmet) and the weight of that (plus face and visor being fiberglass) made the whole thing fall forward and never fit right. If you add weight to the face, you better have some kind of support (TKs use a hardhat liner which won't fit in the Scout) holding the dome to your head. I know the way the KS ships "pre-assembled" with foam strips in it, sits weird on me and I'd need to modify that, bracing it against my forehead to leave room in the face for my glasses. It's a tricky helmet compared to Fett, which has pretty evenly distributed weight all around.

 

I'd also like to take this space to point out again, that as a kid watching the movies, I never thought that the vents on the face of the scouts were just vinyl stickers. I really think they should be real vents when a kid comes up close to take a look. I am going to put the stickers on my new KS kit that arrived saturday because I'm building the scout specifically to join the 501st, but I won't like it!

 

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My Fett is where I allow myself some creative choices. I've got real multicolored horsehair braids because wookies aren't solid white-black-brown. I don't wear a jetpack because I don't have one yet, but when I do get one, I like to think that Fett didn't wear it all the time. The toe spikes and darts on knees are just asking to get caught on something, and I don't recall Boba Fett having to carefully watch where he stepped constantly. I'm also planning to replace the velcro vest closure with snaps, that'll make it easier to get dressed by myself without ending up with the back all crooked. The velcro wasn't seen on screen and shouldn't be part of the CRL! I think the same thing about the scout vest, but again, I want to have a 501st approved costume, so I'm doing everything whether I agree with it or not.

[shdwtrpr13]

With my KS kit I'm going to be doing my own padding inside the helmet and I will also be adding some interior components to the back to even out the weight that will be put onto the face. I'm hoping to have a fully interactive helmet when I'm finished so when I take if off you will see awsomeness. not just that which you'd see when I flip open the face.

[Southscout]

There are some pictures on the internet on how a TK-helmet looks like. For instance: http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/HateMail/Babies/Helmet.jpg

 

You can always design something similar if you wanted to My guess is some air vents from the ears, a microphone near the snout, something binocular-looking by the eyes etc. It could be very cool

[elwyn5150]

So as I'm waiting on the replacement part for my bucket I'v been thinking of a way to make the inside of my helmet something that would be cool for kids to see. I

 

Most of the time, we keep our helmets on to maintain the illusion of being faceless minions. The rare times that I've had to deal with children helmetless were when we were doing a parade with them and had to wait around for half an hour before it started.

 

If you add weight to the face, you better have some kind of support (TKs use a hardhat liner which won't fit in the Scout) holding the dome to your head.

 

Like this: http://forum.bikerscout.net/index.php?showtopic=10270

[shdwtrpr13]

with this it will really come down to imagination, creativity, and experimentation. I'm hoping we fan fabricate with light rubber resins and add padding to keep a stable but beautiful interior to the helmet. This is a KS bucket and I do have the average size head so it will be interesting to find what works best.

[NegativeEleven]

Elwyn, exactly. I know that's what was in the originals, and I know it's offered here. That's definitely the best option. Since I'm building my scout with a friend who has spent the last 2 years on his TK, he had me buy a hardhat and remove the liner before we had the scout helmets in hand. Neither of us were expecting the size to be so different. They don't look that different in the movies, but they're so rarely right next to each other.

 

The KS when you buy it assembled just has some foam weather stripping stuck in there for a little padding. It works if your head is small and you don't mind the helmet shifting a little with movement. It's so light, I bet most people don't have a problem with it. On me, though, my head is big and I wear glasses. When I put it on, the eyepiece mashed up against the glasses as it sat at a weird angle. If I were to use it without a headband, I'd need a support above the eyes padding my forehead to hold it back, to prevent my glasses pressing into my face and scratching the eyepiece.