Legionnaire Helmets

Very nice TTK, you've totally outdone yourself.  I now have a lot of work to try to come up with something else to TRY to compete with.

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that is so freakin awesome.. thats what lego needs to make right there. :D
they could you know. they could do it. yeah sure


i wish

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wow,that fig is awesome,and the helmet is great!

i would also like to compliment how shiny that torso decal is,what did you use to coat it??

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Excellent work, once again! 

I'm not too familiar with Legionaire armour, but the back of the helm reminds me of the hot-oil neck guard seen in the LOTR movie (used by the baddies during the fight at Helms Deep). Nice!

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Sweet! That is awesome!

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for the avvy!

It's one of those odd things:

I arrived at the Moose Lodge in Beautiful Burbank for SoCal Games Day, only to find that the building had been double-booked.  Some of us could jam in upstairs and play games until the lower level cleared out around one.  As I walked through, I noted the other group were plastic model builders.   So I looked around, and there was an Alumilite Super Casting Kit.  Well, having packed that away for a time that I wanted to actually track down where I could buy one, I could see my opportunity arrived.  A very nice gentleman told me where I could buy it locally (Pegasus Hobbies in Montclair).  I also picked up some "green stuff" and Magic Sculpt for sculpting.  So this is now moved off the back burner to the front again. 

So the first stage is to get a castable helmet.  The problem I foresee with the current design are the cheek guards.   They are narrow at the top than the bottom (look at the second photo from the top, blue figure - that gives the best view of the problem), which would seem to be a problem since  the final piece would have to flex (and eventually break) the mold as it was extracted.  The second is the forward jawline projection.  One could possibly rotate the helmet as you extracted it, but this would force an effective wider part though the already narrow top.  Doable as is (i.e. sttrip off the paint and cast), or make a streamlined version?  The easiest part would be to make the backside of the cheek guards straight, and then file them into the final shape after casting.  The harder part would be to remove the lower projection.  More work to restore by cutting away material above it, and would less like the real thing if left off entirely.  Suggestions from those that have been there already?

Oh man, and what happened to my avatar....?

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Spectacular work, Two-tonic.  Hopefully the casting issues will work themselves out, and this excellent piece will become available.

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