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.
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