Rexermus
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So to preface, this breakdown was done by CobaltGreen1138 on Twitter and I'm posting it over here for the RPF for any of you who may be interested can see (especially those of you who don't have/use Twitter), I have their full permission to compile it into one post here on the RPF, as they do not have an account on the forums. Link to the original thread: twitter.com/CobaltGreen1138/status/1775806837306331242 (Be warned it's 55 tweets long lol). Because this breakdown is so long and has so many images for reference I'll be breaking it into 2 posts. First post will be the helmet and colours.
There are already some inaccuracies built into the base as it was built off the rushed BOBF armour (around 40 by Cobalt's count). But let's get into the Rex specific inaccuracies & some accuracies:
Rex's Phase 2 helmet is of course a Phase 2 base with a Phase 1 T-Visor welded on along with the breathing tubes from a Phase 2 BARC helmet. Aside from the self-explanatory weld lines it includes a rangefinder.
In The Clone Wars TV Show, when we see Jango's helmet (both in person when Boba rigs it as a trap and when Jango's armour appears in a hologram on Kamino) he has the standard Clone Trooper rangefinder, letting us know that clones use the same rangefinder and what we see in TCW is simply another case of stylization. For the most part Ahsoka gets this right, but for some reason adds an extra step (Which I assume is supposed to make it a bit more faithful to TCW but we know that it's supposed to be stylized).
Rex's Jaig Eyes were lifted straight from Ralph McQuarrie's original concept art for Boba Fett all the way back in Empire. Since Jaig Eyes were never portrayed in live-action there's more room for interpretation. TCW opted for an angularized interpretation, while Rebels opted for a more faithful interpretation. The Ahsoka show did a variant that's almost in-between the two but leans closer to TCW.
Speaking of the Jaig Eyes, the artist painted them too high on the Ahsoka helmet, so to make up for the empty space between the brow and Jaig Eyes he added a scorch mark that is reminiscent of Boba's helmet dent right under one of the Eyes.
The Ahsoka helmet does not feature the grey temples from the RotS helmet and instead has plain white temple indents. Rex's Rebels model does have the grey temples meaning that he presumably didn't paint them in white himself and this is an error for Ahsoka.
The Clone Wars Clone Trooper helmets do not feature the black brow detail that was present on both Phase 1 & 2 Clone Helmets in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Rex's helmet should have the black brow present in live-action and not painted over in blue, as no Clone Trooper in ROTS with a full visor stripe painted over their brow, neither did the officers in AOTC have their command stripes paint over the brow.
Fanart by: Talon Newton
In The Clone Wars, Rex's helmet is heavily weathered. There's noticeable yellowing on the TCW model that the Ahsoka helmet retained (though it's difficult to see on the poster because of the lighting). One bit of weathering that was faithfully carried over was some missing paint on the brow (though to me, TCW looks more like chipped paint vs scratched paint on Ahsoka)
One thing that the production team got correct is that Live Action Phase 1 T-Visors have rounded corners where the two ends meet and form the stock, instead of the straight/angular lines TCW used in their stylized version.
In Revenge of the Sith the dial on the back of the helmet has approximately 90 ridges (according to Cobalt's count) as well as an indent that is like a ÷ symbol. Neither of these details are present on the Ahsoka helmet cast (Cobalt's theory is that these details were normal maps on the RotS CGI models so they weren't carried over when creating the molds).
When it comes to Rex's weld lines, Ahsoka for the most part lifted them straight from The Clone Wars and placed them directly on Rex's helmet. The lines are raised and look like real weld lines on metal. The brow and earcaps weld lines no longer connect however. The nose welds are also not painted over and have exposed oxidized metal.
Another detail the Ahsoka team remembered to include that wasn't present on TCW models but on RotS models, is the rear black vent. Which FBFX did not include on their Obi-Wan Kenobi helmets.
The breathing tubes in Rex's cheek indents are intended to be the same ones from BARC Helmets seen in ROTS. In Ahsoka, the production team recreated the simplified cylinders instead of the more complex geometry used on Clones like Neyo in Revenge of the Sith.
(Wolffe wears a stylized BARC helmet in TCW)
Phase 2 Clone Trooper helmets have 9 dark blue heat dispersion vents in Revenge of the Sith, whereas the Clone Wars animated Phase 2 helmets have 6 black dispersion vents instead. Rex's helmet for Ahsoka has The Clone Wars animated version instead of the proper ROTS version.
Not entirely about the Ahsoka Rex helmet, but loosely relates. For The Clone Wars Phase 2 helmets, Rex's mouth grill is smaller and his chin vocoder is slightly different than the rest of the Clone's. Cobalt believes that it is a stylistic choice to make Rex (even more) unique compared to his fellow Clones, thus making the Ahsoka mouth vent accurate.
ROTS and other realistic Phase 2 chin-sections are larger than TCW allowing for a longer chin stripe. For the TCW model, Rex's stripe is straighter with a less pronounced taper. When painting the Ahsoka helmet the artist decided to do a significantly more noticeable taper that mirrors the shape of the nose section of the visor.
The original vocoder grille has one part that is white on the original Episode III helmet, however the Ahsoka piece is cast as a singular piece entirely in black. Most likely because it was easier and faster than casting in two parts or painting part of the piece.
Final helmet detail: the neck seal. For Revenge of the Sith, the Clone helmets had rings around the base that acted like a neck seal. Of course, because the Clone were all CGI, there was no consideration as to how a human head would fit past this ring but cosplayers found several work arounds (clamshell designs & removable pieces). For all the live action Clone helmets the neck seal was completely ignored, either because they didn't want to have to deal with it or they couldn't figure it out (more likely they didn't want to).
Onto the 501st unit colours: None of the post-RotS TV Projects correctly do a 1:1 representation. All 4 have different shades of blue for the 501st compared to the original Revenge of the Sith colours worn by the 501st. Rex's Phase 2 armour has a different shade of blue compared to the rest of the 501st but Cobalt believes this is an animation error that was never corrected (I'm inclined to agree as the visor stripe is supposed to be carried over from his Phase 1 helmet and his Phase 1 model had the same shade as the rest of the 501st as well as his Phase 2 reference sheet).
There are already some inaccuracies built into the base as it was built off the rushed BOBF armour (around 40 by Cobalt's count). But let's get into the Rex specific inaccuracies & some accuracies:
Rex's Phase 2 helmet is of course a Phase 2 base with a Phase 1 T-Visor welded on along with the breathing tubes from a Phase 2 BARC helmet. Aside from the self-explanatory weld lines it includes a rangefinder.
In The Clone Wars TV Show, when we see Jango's helmet (both in person when Boba rigs it as a trap and when Jango's armour appears in a hologram on Kamino) he has the standard Clone Trooper rangefinder, letting us know that clones use the same rangefinder and what we see in TCW is simply another case of stylization. For the most part Ahsoka gets this right, but for some reason adds an extra step (Which I assume is supposed to make it a bit more faithful to TCW but we know that it's supposed to be stylized).
Rex's Jaig Eyes were lifted straight from Ralph McQuarrie's original concept art for Boba Fett all the way back in Empire. Since Jaig Eyes were never portrayed in live-action there's more room for interpretation. TCW opted for an angularized interpretation, while Rebels opted for a more faithful interpretation. The Ahsoka show did a variant that's almost in-between the two but leans closer to TCW.
Speaking of the Jaig Eyes, the artist painted them too high on the Ahsoka helmet, so to make up for the empty space between the brow and Jaig Eyes he added a scorch mark that is reminiscent of Boba's helmet dent right under one of the Eyes.
The Ahsoka helmet does not feature the grey temples from the RotS helmet and instead has plain white temple indents. Rex's Rebels model does have the grey temples meaning that he presumably didn't paint them in white himself and this is an error for Ahsoka.
The Clone Wars Clone Trooper helmets do not feature the black brow detail that was present on both Phase 1 & 2 Clone Helmets in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Rex's helmet should have the black brow present in live-action and not painted over in blue, as no Clone Trooper in ROTS with a full visor stripe painted over their brow, neither did the officers in AOTC have their command stripes paint over the brow.
Fanart by: Talon Newton
In The Clone Wars, Rex's helmet is heavily weathered. There's noticeable yellowing on the TCW model that the Ahsoka helmet retained (though it's difficult to see on the poster because of the lighting). One bit of weathering that was faithfully carried over was some missing paint on the brow (though to me, TCW looks more like chipped paint vs scratched paint on Ahsoka)
One thing that the production team got correct is that Live Action Phase 1 T-Visors have rounded corners where the two ends meet and form the stock, instead of the straight/angular lines TCW used in their stylized version.
In Revenge of the Sith the dial on the back of the helmet has approximately 90 ridges (according to Cobalt's count) as well as an indent that is like a ÷ symbol. Neither of these details are present on the Ahsoka helmet cast (Cobalt's theory is that these details were normal maps on the RotS CGI models so they weren't carried over when creating the molds).
When it comes to Rex's weld lines, Ahsoka for the most part lifted them straight from The Clone Wars and placed them directly on Rex's helmet. The lines are raised and look like real weld lines on metal. The brow and earcaps weld lines no longer connect however. The nose welds are also not painted over and have exposed oxidized metal.
Another detail the Ahsoka team remembered to include that wasn't present on TCW models but on RotS models, is the rear black vent. Which FBFX did not include on their Obi-Wan Kenobi helmets.
The breathing tubes in Rex's cheek indents are intended to be the same ones from BARC Helmets seen in ROTS. In Ahsoka, the production team recreated the simplified cylinders instead of the more complex geometry used on Clones like Neyo in Revenge of the Sith.
(Wolffe wears a stylized BARC helmet in TCW)
Phase 2 Clone Trooper helmets have 9 dark blue heat dispersion vents in Revenge of the Sith, whereas the Clone Wars animated Phase 2 helmets have 6 black dispersion vents instead. Rex's helmet for Ahsoka has The Clone Wars animated version instead of the proper ROTS version.
Not entirely about the Ahsoka Rex helmet, but loosely relates. For The Clone Wars Phase 2 helmets, Rex's mouth grill is smaller and his chin vocoder is slightly different than the rest of the Clone's. Cobalt believes that it is a stylistic choice to make Rex (even more) unique compared to his fellow Clones, thus making the Ahsoka mouth vent accurate.
ROTS and other realistic Phase 2 chin-sections are larger than TCW allowing for a longer chin stripe. For the TCW model, Rex's stripe is straighter with a less pronounced taper. When painting the Ahsoka helmet the artist decided to do a significantly more noticeable taper that mirrors the shape of the nose section of the visor.
The original vocoder grille has one part that is white on the original Episode III helmet, however the Ahsoka piece is cast as a singular piece entirely in black. Most likely because it was easier and faster than casting in two parts or painting part of the piece.
Final helmet detail: the neck seal. For Revenge of the Sith, the Clone helmets had rings around the base that acted like a neck seal. Of course, because the Clone were all CGI, there was no consideration as to how a human head would fit past this ring but cosplayers found several work arounds (clamshell designs & removable pieces). For all the live action Clone helmets the neck seal was completely ignored, either because they didn't want to have to deal with it or they couldn't figure it out (more likely they didn't want to).
Onto the 501st unit colours: None of the post-RotS TV Projects correctly do a 1:1 representation. All 4 have different shades of blue for the 501st compared to the original Revenge of the Sith colours worn by the 501st. Rex's Phase 2 armour has a different shade of blue compared to the rest of the 501st but Cobalt believes this is an animation error that was never corrected (I'm inclined to agree as the visor stripe is supposed to be carried over from his Phase 1 helmet and his Phase 1 model had the same shade as the rest of the 501st as well as his Phase 2 reference sheet).
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