HELMET SIZING AND BUYING TUTORIAL. Please read before asking all the answered Qs

[Barbarossa Kad]

Cool thanks a lot I'll have to give him a shout.

[Maz'oa Grey'Vard]

Can someone help me find a dome ?
i have roughly enough republic credits avail.
Need a raw or unpainted one.
can assemble
Been looking everywhere but cant seem find one i like
please p.m. with price or whatever info will help
(not to jump in but seriously been looking forever)
Thanks
Chett

[Hondo Karr]

Depends what kind of helmet you want and what size you need. We all advertise in the Trading Station, sometimes sales threads move a couple pages back due to other activity in the boards. There is a stickied "Who sells What" thread that is somewhat up to date.

What style of helmet are you looking for? A Fett style helmet? A canon, non-Fett helmet? A custom helmet?

Have you looked at the helmet sizing tutorials? Any idea what size you need? 1:1 Boba Fett scale? 1:1 Jango Fett scale? Something inbetween?

[Maz'oa Grey'Vard]

Done found and purchased.....THANK YOU "Kilryth"
   

[Vih'Torr]

I need a little help guys, I have a fairly large head ~23 inches around above the ears. I was thinking about purchasing a HBF and modding it but I'm not 100% sure it will fit without more modifications than the current template for modding one. does anyone with a larger head (or know a Vode with a larger head who knows approx what helmets will fit a large headed person) have any experience with the HBF's and whether or not they will fit? I don't want to buy one and then find out my head would be smooshed against it.

[Hondo Karr]

Plenty of room for your head in pretty much any 1:1 Boba scale helmets. The only issue you could run into with them is the cheek depth. There are 3 easy fixes to that... 1. get your 1:1 Boba scale helmet and if the cheek depth is too much, mod them 2. scratchnuild or mod an HBF 3. Legacy style helmets.

[Atina Kiele]

If I"m 5'2" and 103.62 lb, should I still get the Deluxe Jango Fett Helmet Two pieces?

http://www.amazon.com/Rubies-Costume-Co-Deluxe-Helmet/product-reviews/B008H7UO90/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

[Hondo Karr]

What's your shoulder width? Youre probably 1:1 Jango scale (which would include the Jango 2 piece)... possibly the 1 piece Jango.

[Atina Kiele]

shoulder with... haha... ermmm... lemme get back to ya... n i can't find a one piece jango.. this is a two piece, but it can connect, making it a one piece.

[Drogynn]

Hi guys! Hopefully some1 would be able to help me with an helmet size issue?
Currently starting my very first armor and thinking about the helmet which is gonna be hard for me to make.. So I was thinking of buying one.

The issue I got is, I'm pretty short. Around 5'7" or 5'8", 143 lbs. And I measured the outline of my head to 23-24 inches. Ofcourse with room for the nose that would be an extra 1 or 2 inches.
Now what I really don't want is an helmet with too much extra room. Because I'm so short, the bobblehead effect applies very fast with most helmets so what I'm looking for is a good fit!
I do want to add some soft part to the inside of the helmet to make it an exact fit but I'd rather have it look a little bit small then to have it too large.

So I would very much appreceate any ideas. Is the rubies 1 piece jango kinda the smallest one out there?
Or better yet, is anyone able to measure the size of the inside?

Thanks!

[Hondo Karr]

The best way to size the helmet is to use a 2:1 ratio between the width of your shoulders (without costume armor) and the width of the base of the helmet. It should be as close to 2:1 as possible. When you start dipping below or going over a 2:1 ratio you can end up looking like a bobblehead or a tictac head.

A 1:1 Jango Fett sclae helmet is usually about 9.5" wide. These include Saz's 2 piece Jango sized helmet, Asok's 1:1 Jango helmet, my ComMando and Night Owl V2 and the Rubies 2 piece Jango Fett toy helmet.

A 1:1 Boba scale helmet is usually about 11.5" wide. These inlcude darn near everything else out there. Most helmets as scaled in this size as it's size most, not all, costumers or/and prop builders need.

If you run somewhere in between in the two, it's best to error on the side of which you are closer too but, that could still not nail it right. A third option out there is the Don Post 95/96 Boba Fett helmet. They come in vinyl (realitivly cheap between 60-120... but they are getting harder to find) and fiberglass (can run near 1000 and are VERY difficult to find as they are a collectors piece). I dont know of anyone casting helmets in this size. My Super COmmando V1 was closer to this size than full 1:1 Boba but, Ive discontinued the mold.

Without knowing your shoulder measurement but, seeing you height and weight, I would lay wager you are most likely going to be in need of a 1:1 Jango scaled helmet.

[Drogynn]

Thanks for the reply! I think you might be right on that one actually.
Though Temuera Morrison is a bit more musculair than me his height is exactly the same. And so is his body type.

The size difference between the 1 piece and 2 piece doesn't seem much. However, I like the shape of the 1 piece a little better and I think it will fit me best.
I found a rubies jango helmet on ebay for $60 which seems acceptable but it adds another $50 shipping cost to Europe which I don't like.
Is there anyone I can ask here to make a 1 piece for me? I believe Saz only does the 2 piece.

[Hondo Karr]

No one, that Im aware of, casts helmerts in that size as they are simply too small. They really are only suited for children. They are narrower and shorter than the 2 piece. They are also vinyl which creates a whole other level of issues to contend with. Women typiclaly don't even use they as they are too small for them.

[Grim]

My question is in regard to the helmet template sizes. Am I able to just print them off on regular sized paper then transfer to plastic or sintra or whatever I decide to make it out of? Or do I need to scale it up a bit? In this thread it just looks like the cut outs are larger than what my printer can do.
http://mercs.firespray.net/forum/index.php?topic=12816.0

[bback]

The helmet templates were designed to be printed off on an A size sheet of paper (most common in the US, also called letter size; 8.5x11").  There are also templates designed to be printed off on an A4 size sheet of paper (common in Europe, 8.3x11.7")

However, in my scratchbuild adventures, printing those at 100% makes them way too big.  Comically and unusably large.  The "Fill entire paper" option scaled it down to 40%, so I'm not really sure where the original scale comes from.  My first scratchbuild (at 40%) was too small for my big head and my glasses, so I'm working on another one now at 43%.  I actually just got to a point today where I was able to put a lot of components together, and I'm a little worried it's too big.

The larger pieces are laid out in a manner that makes it easy to print multiple pages and then tape them together.  The main cylindrical body, the top and bottom rounded forms, and the dome are some of these parts.  If you're saying that each piece is scaled larger than the paper and lines are running off the page, then it sounds like you don't have the right scale set.

If it's your first time, I'd recommend printing them out on cardstock or some other heavy-weight paper and assembling that.  You'll get a feel for the size and the process involved.

Have you seen Antman's scratchbuild tutorials?  They're very helpful.
http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f23/antmans-second-cardboard-scratch-build-24821/