No Humor Man wrote:
You can definitely see that the inside mouth wall has brush strokes in this picture. But to me it looks like the same lightly drybrushed look as on that same outside mouth wall and not similar to the more clearly "grey" areas. But I'll leave that up to interpretation.
yes you can. ive been trying to determine this from screen grabs. but its very hard to tell. until of course. i saw this image and the one Thomas posted of the original ANH helmet.
not screen grabs. but images of the ANH helmet none the less with the inner sides of the mouth appearing to have gunmetal. you can see the inner sides of the mouth painted in the gunmetal.
how much gunmetal is hard to determine. but in this image you posted you can clearly see the brush stocks.
ive been trying find screen grabs from the Tantive scenes. but it was impossibly to find any until i came across this image. it looked very interesting to me which appears to have gunmetal running down along the very edge of the inner side of the mouth where it meets the face of the mouth triangle on the right side in this image below. some may say its reflection of the lights. but if you follow it from the nose paint. it appears to be all the same color. again though hard telling not knowing...
i think no humor man may be right as far as application of the gunmetal t the inner mouth walls. that would confirm the reason why it appears so dark. . as far as the inner mouth walls of the ANH lid being full on GM. the original ANH helmet b&w image does appear to be GM too from what little there is to see of it.
but i did find something very interesting.
i understand this is an ANH helmet discussion. but i felt the need to share this whit everyone here in this thread concerning the inner mouth walls painted gunmetal.
some may already know this. but this is for the ones who dont.
but what i did find from an on film screen grab (not ANH) to prove the inner mouth walls were indeed painted gunmetal (and form what i can see in the image it appears to be full on GM).
is this image of Vader when he storms the rebel base on Hoth with the snowtroopers. you can clearly see the inner wall is indeed GM.
my observation is that from the photos that we do have and that have been shown here. ive come to the conclusion that more than likely the inner mouth walls along with both outer mouth walls were indeed painted in GM. and more than likely in different shades or amounts of layers that were applied. that would explain the different looks or appearances you see on film in an array of different lighting. and from what the original b&w image shows is that the right C scare cheek has a layer of GM over the black.
unless of course someone reveals a screen grab that proves other wise. i could be totally wrong with my observations.