We drilled a small hole through the top of the commbox, directly above the three vertical bars. Take notice the wire antenna that protrudes out the top of the commbox. The Commbox is held in place on the helmet via a 1-inch long #6 threaded bolt. The measurement of this commbox is 5.5cm wide x 9.5cm tall x 2cm deep (little deeper on the corners though due to the curve of the helmet). To the best of their abilities, they think the commbox has one flat donut shape, two dome bumps and three vertical bars on it. They did extensive research to the pattern of the details on the side of the commbox. supplied us with a vacuum-form shell from which we took patterns off of to make out own commbox out of. The Communication box on the side of the helmet has an odd bevel on the bottom of it. The smoke colored 'blast shield' can either be painted onto the helmet or vacuum-formed from 1/8 inch smoke acrylic plastic, depending on your budget at that time. For the normal fan-costumer, a bright white helmet will do just fine, but for those concerned about accuracy, a light grey helmet is the only way to go. Movie prop collector David Oliver () actually owned one of the ILM helmets and from that helmet it was confirmed that the plastic was infact off-white in color, kind of a light gray.

Some very color-oriented prop-makers thought that the RFT helmet did not quite match the color of the walls of the Tantive 4 movie set, nor the color of the white stormtroopers armor. Helmet Color For years the Star Wars costuming community has been debating about the color of the Rebel Fleet Trooper helmets. We pulled vacuum-molds from an existing MKII helmetĪnd custom sculpted the 'swept back wing' vacuum-mold.

One usually comes up for auction about every 4 weeks or so.

is a good place to find Mark II Navy helmets. The ILM movie used Rebel Fleet Trooper helmet was based on a USA World War 2 Mark II Navy Talker Helmet. Allow 3 to 4 weeks for it to be shipped out. We are offering RFT helmets to the fans, in 'Kit' or 'Assembled' form.

World war 2 mark ii navy talker helmet