When I was in college, I lived with one of my best friends for a year. We lived in the on-campus apartments so we had quite a bit more freedom than anybody in the dorms did. I had known that my friend was in the Imperial 501 and that he had several other costumes that he’d either purchased or made. I’d even watched the process of him building his own set of Mjolnir armor from Halo, and then proceed to paint it blue and drill a hole in one foot to make it Caboose from the popular webseries Red vs Blue. He helped me put together a few things of my own as time went by, the only one that I’ve been terribly proud of was my ODST helmet. My brother has the Uruk-Hai orc helmet that he built. What I’m trying to say is that I’m familiar with the process of building a costume out of cardstock, fiberglass, resin and Bondo.
So, I can understand all of what I’m about to show you and, given several months to work
on it, I might be able to emulate this. But probably not. And certainly not like this.
What you’re looking at is one artist’s work on making a piece for charity. Harrison Krix built this helmet for an auction that will take place at Celebration VI that will benefit Make-a-Wish. 40 artists were contacted to make their own variations on Fett and Clone Trooper helmets for this purpose. If you’re going to be at Celebration, then you really need to take pictures of these helmets.
This piece was inspired by the game Skyrim and its protagonist, the Dragonborn or Dovahkiin.
For those of you interested in seeing the process of building this piece of art, check out the artist’s site.
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, and to celebrate, if you’ve not seen StarWars.com’s instructions on how to make a Hanukkah Droidel, here’s a link on how to geek up your Hanukkah celebrations; this particular dreidel still has the traditional Hebrew inscription referring to the miracle of the eight nights of light celebrated by Hanukkah.
