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.









5 comments:

  1. Serious Final Chapter vibes. Look at that shape!

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  2. Eres privilegiado

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  3. Now that you’ve seen this mask up close, to your eye what mask matches up to it the most? The crash? JDF A/B due to the larger eyes and because of the linage? Maybe the one from Illusive?

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  4. The Crash is more accurate than the JDF in size, shape and features, although even Crash's are wrong in small ways. For example, this mask had larger, sharper eye cavities and a slight curve across the top rim that Crash's masks don't have. It was also more oval shaped.

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