Wow, what a cool thread this is!
A tidbit about the concept Vader above with the lightsaber. Myself, I am acquainted with Joe Johnston who told me a tale of woe - this suit was made here in CA at ILM and obviously never used in any capacity other than conceptual.
Joe tells me this though - the suit had glam boots on the bottom for height or whatever - like Ziggy Stardust boots if you can picture it!!! And not only that, Joe had the suit in his possession until a friend asked to borrow it for Halloween one year.
Bad idea since the suit was essentially destroyed via "Halloween" and Joe threw it in the trash!!!!! AAAAGGGHHH!!!!
But that story is from the horse's mouth and Joe said that he is the one in the photograph wearing the dang thing too.
Beyond that, I suspect that one of the ESB or ROTJ hero helmets was out of that original mold and cannibalized into its refined form. Just a suspicion...
And pints?! Right now I could use a gallon of whatever y'all are drinking. I intend to attempt something next to such a feat later this evening after the last couple days at work...
, and I can show what is wrong with it....and again it's not the same neck as the original sculpture so it can't be derived directly from it. The forehead curvature is too steep, the crown curvature is too rounded, the eyebrow curvatures are not right (sigmoid in shape toward the outer edge of the eye), the seam is actually more forward than it should be (checked again), the noseslots are not deep enough. I know you can rotate it so that the forehead/eyebrow curvature looks close, but then the mouth area is not lined up properly...and it wasn't photographed far away...not to mention Prowse' head would not be that small behind the ears...
Was very interesting to find out the details about them and thank you again for your time.
