Thursday, March 10, 2022

Finally Saw the Hollywood Museum Mask in Person

Have been waiting about a decade to get out here and see this thing. It's not huge, about the size of a Crash part 3 mask, although a bit more oval shaped and with larger eye cavities. It's covered in a beige-tinted clear varnish which you can see with 100% clarity in person but doesn't really show up well in photos. The cowl it sits on could be the part 4 stunt/dummy sculpt by Kagel or the part 5 sculpt; it has a machete wound across the head, which can be seen in both films. The shape of the ears strongly suggest part 4.

It looks like they pulled a clear acrylic blank, base-coated with a light paint color and added some brown or black washes, which were then partially sanded off with a very rough grit. Then the buff-colored varnish was sprayed across the whole thing. The mask is very thin, probably .060 plastic sheet.

Check out my earlier post on this mask for more in-depth analysis. Not sure why it looks so yellow in some other photos because in person it's not yellow at all.