WIP - Screen acurate ROTJ Vader helmet from ANH ashes

darthjones · **Joined:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:57 am **Posts:** 472

Oh! I think I was the one who mentioned Dupli-color. I was just a kid and not around for the film shoots but at ILM I saw two Vader helmets restored with the Duplicolor cans and they looked just great.

This one here I did was with Duplicolor (kind of an ROTJ face with ANH dome but whatever)

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This is also with Duplicolor:

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DJnew.JPG

Turrican · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:53 am

After all that massive work a very ncie result.
You made a really good job on this one :thumbsup

kroenen77 · **Joined:** Sun May 23, 2010 7:50 pm **Posts:** 59

Great job...your helmet looks very nice! :thumbsup

What Colorcode from Duplicolor did you used for the gray highlights?I´m testing some paints for my Revealproject so this one could be the right one. :wink:

Darth Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:34 am

Sorry for the delay, No computer. I used GM 318. Charcoal Grey Metallic.
Hope that helps.

Darth Obsession · **Posted:** Tue Jul 26, 2016 6:27 pm

darthjones wrote:

Oh! I think I was the one who mentioned Dupli-color. I was just a kid and not around for the film shoots but at ILM I saw two Vader helmets restored with the Duplicolor cans and they looked just great.

This one here I did was with Duplicolor (kind of an ROTJ face with ANH dome but whatever)

Attachment:

IMG_0983.JPG

Attachment:

IMG_0984.JPG

This is also with Duplicolor:

Attachment:

DJnew.JPG

I I just want to say how much I truely dig that helmet in the first two attahments. It has a near real deal look to it, but captures elements of all three original versions (ANH,ESB,ROTJ) of Vader's helmet. A quintesential dream helmet. JUST AWSOME! Keep up the great work, DJ!

p.s. nothing wrong with the helmet in attachment 3 either. Awsome ANH.

craigjohn · **Joined:** Mon Jan 04, 2016 11:51 pm **Posts:** 531

Just read through this thread, and you really live up to the name "Obsession". :lol

The final result is excellent, and you have to be giddy with it in the end. It's a true labor of love.

My only critique in this...please don't use funky font colors when you type. The colors are vibrating on my screen and it's making my eyes bug out. :cheers

Darth Obsession · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2016 3:53 pm

craigjohn wrote:

Just read through this thread, and you really live up to the name "Obsession". :lol

The final result is excellent, and you have to be giddy with it in the end. It's a true labor of love.

My only critique in this...please don't use funky font colors when you type. The colors are vibrating on my screen and it's making my eyes bug out. :cheers

Yes. Thank you. A nearly 40 year obsession.

p.s. you don't like my colors? :cry2

Are you sure it 's not just time for a new
monitor? I gotta do my colors.

danzig1313 · **Joined:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 7:24 am **Posts:** 16

First off DarthObsession I want to say GREAT job on this mod.What a job on all levels.After doing nothing more than reading the thread,Im exhausted.I havnt even gotten around to painting my SPFX Vader yet..With that said,if you wanted a ROTJ helmet,Im curious as to why you didnt just sell your ANH SPFX and buy the ROTJ SPFX?The ROTJ SPFX is actually a very clean cast and quite good.At least to my eye.See pics..

jedijeffrey · **Joined:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:44 pm **Posts:** 95

Darth Obsession,
excellent work! It really shows how much paint manufacturing has changed! Who would have thought that that 40yrs after Star Wars you could get a can of spray paint from autozone that was even close to a Rolls Royce color. Kinda cool!

dcarty · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:12 pm

Fantastic work!! Absolute labor of love. I can't say enough how terrific it looks :cool:

Dave