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How To Make A Stormtrooper Helmet

Propmaker Andrew Ainsworth takes you through a step-by-step process on how to make your very own Stormtrooper helmet. Fun fact: Ainsworth recently defeated Lucasfilm in a legal dispute over the right to sell sculptures of the Imperial headgear, which he designed for George Lucas and sold to The God Of Flannel himself back in the ’70s for approximately $32 per helmet. (via.)

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How To Make A Stormtrooper Helmet
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      Andrew Ainsworth did not “design” the original Stormtrooper helmet. He was hired to cast a mold based on work that was already done. The actual design was the result of a team effort by people like George Lucas, Ralph McQuarrie, Liz Moore, and Brian Muir. Ainsworth was a work-for-hire that was called in the very last stage of the fabrication of the helmet. He was given designs and clay sculpts, and made a mold based on them. Ainsworth had nothing to do with the actual design of the helmet, and you really ought not to state such things in your articles. No matter how much the nerd community wants to hate George Lucas, the ruling in Ainsworth’s favor was a BAD THING for creators and designers. It basically allowed a work-for-hire to steal someone else’s designs for his own profit.

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      ok lemme see if I got this right.
      1 - Get your black helmety thing, and coat it with yellow stuff.
      2 - Use rasp and carving tools to make yellow stuff into stormtropper shape
      3 - mix random amounts of glass fiber, filite, steel, iron and aluminum dust in a little bucket with a mystery liquid.
      4 - coat yellow stuff with gray stuff mixture
      5 - brush gray stuff with watery gray stuff
      6 - carve with handheld grinder, rasp and sandpaper
      7 - cut wood pieces with band saw
      8 - smear UPOL Easy-1 on mouth piece area and place wood pieces in it
      9 - compare to your original
      10 - make obscure gestures
      11 - vacuum form front
      12 - vacuum form back with original 76 tool (wait what? Did we make the back?)
      13 - put on one glove
      14 - obscure gestures
      15 - vacuum form blister eyes
      16 - spray with air and compare to original piece
      17 - cut and assemble
      18 - pose and smile

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