Hello everyone.
One of your members suggested that maybe the Darth Vader experts here can help me identify this Vader helmet for me.
First a bit of background on this cast.
I got this from David Lady who originally got it directly from Henry Alvarez.
Henry was a master sculptor who worked...well for any movie effects house you can think of. This is a link to his IMDB.
Henry Alvarez - Biography - IMDbI was told that Henry cast this directly from the original ANH molds over 30 years ago.
I went to the Star Wars Helmet site which lists all of the different versions that were made of Darth and for the life of me I can't figure out which helmet this is.
This fiberglass cast was obviously pulled from a very worn out mold and it's taken me weeks to get the helmet smooth enough to paint and I'm now working on the face mask.
From the shape of the widows peak on the helmet it looks like this was pulled from the ESB molds.
But the face mask has details I can't identify. Especially an odd shape above the bridge of the nose which is under the helmet when it's assembled.
The face mask and helmet are both very asymmetrical and very HUGE.
This first pic is the way I received it. The next pics I just took for this thread. Please let me know what you think.
Thanks,[/B]
Sam McCain
Horror Sanctum Studios
www.horrorsanctum.com