This was a painstaking process that I worked on off and on for a couple of years. Back in 2022 I created my own part 3 buck ground-up from a Plante mask after having seen the Hollywood Museum mask in person. This is a clear PETG blank from that buck pulled in 0.060 thickness, which I believe is correct to the movie mask.
The mask was base-coated front and back with Krylon Dover White, the cracks hand-etched with an x-acto knife to be as close to the original as possible (this part takes several days), painted weathering carefully applied with acrylics, then given five coats of Maimeri's patina varnish. It was finished with Krylon Kamar varnish and movie-accurate 7/8 inch straps. I can't claim it's flawless, but it's a keeper for me. Happy Friday the 13th!
With what did you aply the acrylic weathering JL1980 im a verry big fan of you sinds i was 16 never got the nerves to ask you somthing
ReplyDeleteJust a small paint brush and a sponge
DeleteLooks great! I'm not sure the original is that thin, but everything else is spot on. Excellent work!
ReplyDeleteI've been following your blog ever since 2010 when you were first making the ultimate 3. I've been really impressed by all the deep research you've done on this prop and i think you're right about most of it.
ReplyDeleteBut i sure would like to know what really became of it. I don't believe that they nailed it to the wall outside until it withered or whatever they said. I think it's more likely to have went missing from the set of part 4 or 5.
In part 5 they used every mask they had up til that point and even one that hadn't seen screen time. I know it's speculation, but is it a stretch to believe that it could've been in a deleted scene from part 5? We didn't even know it was used on the set of 4 til Crash found a photo of a deleted scene.
I'd love to know the other brands and colors.of paint you used.
ReplyDeleteJust custom mixed acrylics. I think the weathering color approximates raw umber. I use cheap Wal-Mart acrylics, the art store stuff is too thick.
DeleteAwesome! I've been curious for a long time as to when in the process it is that people fill in the Fibrosport vent holes and drill the Friday The 13th mask vent holes. I mean, the fact that the holes all have those sunken areas around them would seem to indicate that it was BEFORE the main vacuum form layers, but that also seems problematic because then, of course, you would basically have to change them in the buck itself, which is a cast piece, so that the buck itself would have to be patched and drilled, etc.
ReplyDeleteBTW, there's an original Fibrosport mask on the Fiberglassmasks.com site as of now with the same forehead vent hole configuration as the one that Jacques Plante displayed in his office of which you posted a picture in one of your articles 15 years ago.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I take it that you made the extension of the edge prior to vacuum forming, right?
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