Most of the things I make are at least a bit complex and take weeks worth of work in order to see any progress at all. So in the middle of one (or five) of those, it's nice to take a few minutes here and there to do something that shows quick results.
With that in mind, a while back I got a few helmet kits from Skygunbro's Custom Creature Shop. Here's what they looked like when they showed up:
While I've already got a few of the old Master Replicas lifesize clonetrooper helmets, I've always thought it'd be cool if they'd made more variants. One that I really liked the look of was Sideshow Toys' live-action style Captain Rex from the Clone Wars. But nobody really makes a good-looking version.
So after sitting them on my bench for a while (to distract me from real work) I'd modified one of those raw cast helmets to look like so:
For a detailed description of the modification process, and a boatload of additional pictures, read on...
