Just finished a keeper for myself. This is on a Fiberglassmasks.com Part 6 mask, from Bob's new mold derived from the back of an old Nightowl Part 6, itself, pulled from a production-made Part 6 mask. As far as I can tell, this is the most accurate Part 6 blank you can get.
One of the things I've obsessed over as a mask painter is the eyes. You can't really get a screen-accurate look to a Jason mask without getting the eye cuts right. And you can't get the eye cuts right if you don't have correctly shaped eye sockets.
The eyes on the Part 3 movie masks were big and sharply defined. They were also, roughly, egg-shaped, coming in close to the nose and had slightly different contours. Though it can be hard to see in screen shots, viewing an original Part 3 pull at the Hollywood museum showed me exactly what they are supposed to look like.
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Faithfully reproducing this shape, size and depth enabled me to get the big, accurate eyes we see in these early movie masks.
I still have Part 3 and 4 style clear PETG blanks available. Email me at farrelljm1122 (at) hotmail (dot) com
Working on a few new cut blanks. These are still available (part 3 and 4 style) in clear PETG. Email me at farrelljm1122 _at_ hotmail _dot_com.
My customer wanted the cracks from the Part III hero incorporated into the stunt mask seen at the end of the film. This was painted on one of my own blanks (clear plastic copies still available, see email address at the end of the previous post) using a basecoat of Krylon Dover White and Maimeri's patina varnish.
I've been working on perfecting my P3/4 buck for about three years now and I believe I've gotten it as accurate as I'll ever get it. Below are some comparisons between my test blanks and the best shots I could find of the original Part 3 and 4 movie masks.
Below is the Part 3 hero mask as photographed for a Part 5 poster, next to my Part 3 test blank.
And a raw Part 4 blank compared to the movie mask.
The Part 4 hero photographed back in 2012 along with the Part 4 blank.
These blanks measure 20 x 26 cm (10 5/16 x 8 in.) so they're pretty large. Comparing with our only measurement of an authentic Part 3 or 4 screen used mask (below) they seem to line up perfectly.
A finished piece can look nearly identical to a movie mask, as shown below. Note that the below example was made from an earlier version of the buck, before several holes were moved.
I started this project back in 2022 after I saw the Hollywood Museum mask in person for the first time. I started with a copy of a Plante mask, and built it ground-up from there. It was a more complex process than I thought and quite a few changes had to be made to get it to look accurate, which has taken years of refinements.
I created this buck for my own personal mask projects. I don't plan on selling a lot of these, but I will make a few available for a short time. Pulled in .060 gauge clear PETG only. Email me at farrelljm1122 (at) hotmail (dot) com.
Here's some brief analysis of the original straps on the Part 3 mask.
As far as I can see, they were almost certainly 22 mm braided elastic bands. This is an odd width (roughly 7/8 inches), typically used for watch bands. The braids can be counted in the top strap of the Part 4 mask and the side strap of the Part 3 mask in the photos below; in both cases, there appear to be 11 braids in each strap.
The only 22 mm braided strapping I've found has 12 braids per strap, so it is possible they are 23 mm, (even more rare), but more likely just a slightly different braid width.
Using a ruler, I lined up the centimeters in the Dario measurement photo of the Part 4 mask with those on a real ruler and came to a width measurement of 21 mm for the straps on the part 4 mask. Allowing for a tiny margin of error resulting from the tape being lifted off the strap, these almost certainly imply 22 mm nylon.
Just a quick comparison between Part 6 movie mold and Fear City Creations blanks. The Part 6 mask (right) is a second generation casting of the back of a Part 6 movie mask by Fiberglassmasks.com. The FCC mask (left) is a second gen casting of a blank by the late mask maker Ken Tarallo believed to have been pulled straight from the Part 7 movie buck.
The similarities are striking, so much so that they almost appear to be from the same buck. The FCC mask measures on the back 21.2 x 24.6 cm. The Part 6 measures 21 x 24.3 cm, not really a meaningful difference considering the slightly different cut of the two blanks.
There are some noticeable differences. The FCC mask has a slight flattening on the right side compared to the six; the right cheek and edges appear rounder on the six, which is also more consistent with the Part 6 movie masks. The lower left edge of the Fiberglassmasks Part 6 is also more rounded and consistent with the movie masks, and the far right curve near the right strap hole is a perfect match to the movie masks, the curve on the FCC mask beginning a bit higher.
In some ways, the FCC is actually closer to the Part 6 movie masks, including the shape of the left edge near the strap hole.
Given the remarkable similarities, and the fact that the minor differences could be the result of both copies here being second gen recasts, it is tempting to conclude that the Part 6 and Part 7 movie masks both came off the Part 6 buck. This however seems unlikely, given that the Part 6 buck is known to have split horizontally across the mouth, a fact attested to in the photo of Gabe Bartalos with a production blank below, as well as the Part 8 movie masks, themselves recast from a spare Part 6 mask.
There is no visible horizontal mark in the Part 7 masks, but there is a massive vertical split down the middle visible in the rare first-gen blanks, which was filled in before they were pulled. The greatest likelihood is that the Part 7 mask was a recast of the back of a Part 6 movie mask, rather than a pull from the same buck. The slight differences in the Part 7, including the flattening in some parts, could have been the result of a poor fit between the silicone mold and its plaster casing. While we don't know which Part 6 mask it was cast from, it was likely made from a mask pulled early, before the buck fractured.
Here's a few in-progress photos of part 3 and 4 masks I painted on my own blank a couple of years ago.
