Imperial pilot (TIE) helmet

Description

Now’s your chance to own your own piece of Movie history. The most accurate production of the screen-used Imperial helmet ever produced, cast from the original 1976 moulds. A unique collectible that doesn’t get more accurate than this!

• Imperial helmet cast from the original 1976 moulds.
• Uniquely numbered helmet signed by the maker Andrew Ainsworth
• Supplied with square display stand and brushed metal plaque for your collection
• Fabricated from bespoke black thermo-plastic.
• 7 part construction including face, left/right hemispheres, Mohawk bridge, front Mohawk detailing and left/right ears.
• Hand-turned aluminium metalwork (ear detailing)
• "Double Bubble" grey eye lenses
• Helmet is wearable or for display in your collection

Authentic

Original helmets from the original prop maker.

In 1976 Andrew Ainsworth sculpted, fabricated and produced the original helmets used in the first Star Wars movie. Thirty years on, Andrew dusted down his original moulds for the Imperial Pilot (TIE) helmet and resumed production.

"We made the 1976 on-screen Imperial Pilot by mating the face of a Stormtrooper and the back of a Rebel Pilot. By the time we increased the overall bulk, changed it to black, added a war like Mohawk, the Imperial Pilot grew an awesome presence." Andrew Ainsworth, prop maker at Shepperton Design Studios.

How it all started

Watch DVDAndrew explains “One day George Lucas showed me a drawing. It showed a black helmet from the rear view. He asked me to re-create this. Knowing how they worked, I went home, and instead of giving him a plastic back I sculpted up a TIE pilot with a whole new character."

"I went back the next day and said ‘What about this?’ and he loved it.”

Find out more

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