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Excellent work on the helmet!
Now to work on that godawful uniform! It looked TERRIBLE!Leave a comment:
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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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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.Leave a comment:
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Battlestar Galactica Viper Pilot Helmet
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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