Battlestar Galactica Viper Pilot Helmet

[piecemaker]

Inspired by MegoKnight's BSG Apollo custom and the acetone shrinking technique he used to shrink that head, I decided to try a shrink on a Starbuck I had.

I was very happy with the results of that head shrink but then I wasn't happy with the helmet size in comparison to the new head size.

Unfortunately an acetone shrink is not possible on the helmet so a lot of cutting, dremeling, resculpting, sanding etc, etc on the original and I ended up with this first trial helmet.

I have some fine tuning to do to this resin copy yet. It's not entirely perfect with all dimensions and it really cant be without modifying the head some more.

I wanted a smaller helmet that fits closer to the new head, i'm liking how it's looking so far.

A comparison picture with Peter Burke for scale and a picture of the helmet on the newly sized head which really got washed out by the flash.

I'll post some better pictures as this progresses.

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[Mego Magyar]

I like it.

[plaztekman]

very cool!

[Grimjohn]

Excellent work!

[apes3978]

Looks good...

[mpramuk]

Nice job! The helmet with the BBP figures was too big (even for the original head, which itself was too big!) You should make a mold of the finished product to cast correct scale helmets.

[piecemaker]

Here's a picture of an original unshrunk Apollo with helmet on.It don't look too bad as far as head to helmet size.

Also a picture of the shrunken Starbuck head with an original helmet, it looks real bad, i cant handle it.

I did a little more work on the resized helmet and slopped some paint on it to see how some areas were looking.

I started taking some of the paint back off and thought i should take a pic before that so it doesn't get washed out by the flash again
and here's what it is looking like now next to an original for comparison.
I still have some more to do yet but it's getting there.

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[JediJaida]

Excellent work on the helmet!

Now to work on that godawful uniform! It looked TERRIBLE!

[MIB41]

Nicely done!!!

[BATMAN89]

Excellent work!

[noelani72]

wow, those noggins were big. Good eye and great job!

[mpramuk]

Very nice job with the helmet!

[RobTMego]

great job!!

[GUYx1]

Looks awesome!

[piecemaker]

Thanks everyone, I have a little fine tuning to do on the helmet yet but got distracted for a bit on something else I wanted to do to this custom.

Excellent work on the helmet!

Now to work on that godawful uniform! It looked TERRIBLE!

I think the basic uniform is alright. I'am going to make a few little changes and change the body to a Type-S. It has less upper arm bulk and I'm hoping the jacket will fit better on that body.

The other change I got started on is some new Mego style BSG pilot boots. I want to make a few small changes to those yet but this gives a basic idea what they will look like.

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