darthjones wrote:
I looked for such things as well. Didn't see anything other than remnants of what is found on DJ/ SL castings.
Come to think of it, this ESB could even be out of that same mold for all we know.
One of my favorite helmets ever. Screen used or not this one is king material.
Cheers John and thanks John and Scott for incredible images of this very interesting helmet.
I wish I had seen this in person as well. Guys, you go to Celebration. There's an original Vader helmet. You bring a nice camera!
And you take a lot of photos!
The ESB masks did not come from something sourced from the Baker mold. Only tour pieces came from that mold (perhaps the Funeral Pyre helmet as well). Of course the dome would be the same as a TM dome. It seems very much to me that the tusk tube ends going back to the V-convergence were redone on this mask. Perhaps at one point they were damaged. Hard to tell if there's a bit of neck extension on Vader's left side of the rear of the neck but it seems like there might be, but I don't see the additional border inside the eye perimeter typical of a TM....just seems more like ANH and other original ESBs. The TM mask is a copy of a modified original ESB mask, as we have yet to see all the hallmarks of a TM on an original ESB mask. It will be fun to compare this mask to the Paul Allen ESB.
regards,
Thomas