Hi back to all and again thanks for the warm welcome.
Just to fill you all in about myself . . . I am a father of the three in his very late thirties, but hangin on to em. lol
Time is precious.
With that said, someone asked me what I am working on at the moment . . . . .go out to wookiepedia and check out Commander Ganch and his pilot Squawk. These two are the present focus, and I hope to show you soon.
I am also working on my fourth Jet to sell on ebay. He is still hot so I am going with it lol
If you get into my ebay feedback, you can see some pics of others I have done this season , and if you go back far enough, there is last season as well.
I would love to have a tutorial with pics and the whole nine yards, and promise that someday soon . . . .but wanted to break the Rex helmet down for you since everyone is so jacked about it, now you got me fired up about it again!!
Anyway I think I can give you a good description without pics and I am all for someone making a cast of that helmet and the Jet helmet. (Clint?!?!?!?!)
Those earmuffs (for lack of a better term) are tricky!
So here we go:
Get yourself a Rex figure, and a Snowtrooper, of the OTC variety. Or any of the other more recent versions with removable helmet. (Strange side note: I made three of these Arctic Rex's last year - however there was one thing about the first one that set it apart from the rest. I found there are two different versions of that snowtrooper, one has a more slender helmet, than the other more flared out version. ) The slender helmet version is the one I have posted.
ok, so numero uno,
1.) Off with the heads! Both of them.
2.) Cut the ball joint of both off just about the 'collar' of the suit on both.
3.) Attach Rex's head to the snowtroopers body with your favorite bonding agent.
4.) Cut the 'raised' vision / breathing section out of REx's helmet. Very carefully. You should end up with basically just the " T " section of the helmet.
5.) Lay this on the snowtrooper helmet.
6.) Use a sensitive marking pen or other such tool to lightly outline the T visor on the snowtrooper helmet.
7.) Use an exacto to cut out the shape of the T visor from the snowtrooper helmet.
8.) Remove what you have cut (and save it for another custom!!)
9.) Carefully glue the T visor into the helmet. This takes a lot of practice. (and there is probably a better way, I just haven't gotten back to it)
10.) After allowing this to dry, take a very small drill bit or your exacto, and carefully make a hole on each side of the mouth section of the helmet.
11.) Insert and glue small, short tubes, which are the coldweather 'snorkels' seen in the 'toon.
12.) Thats pretty much it. All there is left to do is paint it up. Let me know if this makes sense . . . . . . . .
