Thanks a bunch for the overwhelming response. I'm thrilled that you all seem to like it so far.
I'll try to answere your questions the best I can.
Chewcy,
I'm not going to compare the different pedigrees of the helmets, that would probably be to open the mother of all worm cans. :lol What I CAN say though is that I've seen A LOT of different Boba helmets thru the years and no one compares with BM's as far as craftmanship goes. It's an incredible clean and crisp cast, all the tedious clean up has been taken care of. The visor slot is allready cut and everything comes primed ready to paint. It's a great helmet and I'm proud to have one in my collection.
TK1536,
Yes, I've tried to mask the silver scratches ones. I did not like the result at all, feelt like working with boxing gloves on. I've totally fallen in love with the topical technique since I feel that I can achive a far more detailed result free hand with a brush. The original helmet both had layerd and topical scratches. The grey and purple ones for instance were all topical. Most of the silver ones appears to have been scratched fysical but some were definatly topical. There are people on this board that do nothing else then eat and bread Boba Fett perhaps they care to chim in on this subject.?
RKW;
I'm still masking them and airbrush them on. I don't like the streak pattern that hand painting produces.
Thanks again all, if there's any more questions feel free to ask.
Steve.