SithLord wrote:
About the Chronicles....if someone can show me that detail on the chronicles ANH helmet I'd be very interested to see it. But keep in mind, the detail isn't just in relief (ie: how it stands out from the surface), there is black paint associated with both the ring and the imperfection below it.
Yes... until it was touched up by Kermit - removing the black, but keeping surface detail - and later when it was repainted for the footprint ceremony and the Chronicles shoot. It is very simple deduction and everyone who's painted with metallic colors will know this. You can see the circular pattern in the exact spot you highlighted on the two Chronicles pictures I posted + if it was just paint and nothing on the surface, you wouldn't have it on your cast. Paint doesn't cover previous paint application formations or blemishes in the surface, if the covering layer is very thin, it does not annihilate or eradicate surface details, unless it is a very thick layer. And the black streaking can easily be covered, while keeping the surface detail of how it looked preserved.
I really do not know how else to explain this. The detail is also on the Corbis pictures, so I advice you to re-examine those with more scrutiny - the issue with the Corbis and Chronicles shoots is that the helmet is photographed from so far away, compared to the screen helmet, the creaturefeaturekid picture you own and your helmet. But the detail is there. The black smudge isn't important, the surface detail is. And that surface detail remains all the way up through those various stages.
Finding it doesn't prove when it was molded. Only the features that lack on the SL does.
Not wanting to forget... cool find, btw!