After Star Wars, many of us who were kids at the time were hit with "Star Wars Fever." Until ESB came out, there was Battlestar Galactica rushing in to fill that void, helping us to dream again. I remember how they were photographed with a diamond lens filter while being polished to a gleam, and that fearsome and cool monotone "By your command."
When I was 12, I was at Universal Studios and I will never forget the tram ride. We were riding along when we rounded a corner, and two cylons in vehicle with a powerful laser cannon hijacked us and took us on board a Cylon ship. There, we were captured, and all the Cylons were animatropic -- except for one lone actor, a Colonial Warror who cried, "Release the humans!" And then there was the most spectacular laser beams, which was something like 1,600 or 6,000 impulses per second, spewing out a beam of solid light! The brave Colonial warrior risked his life, allowing us to escape.
I scored this off of eBay for about $90-something. Currently SgtFang has a kit for a bit more, having recently procured the molds. This particular kit was sold by someone who no longer had time to work on it, and he included some Bondo glazing putty, some DupliColor chrome spray paint, and some cement glue. It came with the electroncis for the eye.
Supposedly the kit was made by an eBay seller whose ID contained the word "starbuck". I contacted the Seller asking about the origins of this helmet but was unable to get a response. So who knows if this is a fan sculpt or somehow was descended from a screen-used prop.