Tristan Eaton and AZK One created this gas mask Darth Vader helmet for the Vader Project art exhibition, which displays artist’s colorful refashionings of sci-fi’s most iconic fashion accessory.
What’s strange to me is that, once seeing it, I realized that while I’ve seen a lot of steampunk Vaders, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one take the gas mask approach. This is either a shameful oversight of the steampunk community or my memory… one or the other.
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Not sure if I’d consider it steampunk really but very cool lookin. Like if there was an Elseworlds Star Wars series.
Looks like something out of the Kerberos Saga.
I think gas masks are more dieselpunk than steampunk, but I get what you mean. I do wish the helmet was WWII German for the complete look.
George Orwell mask
http://www.stockroom.com/-The-Pig-Face-Hood-P3027.aspx?ref=1923512
…Maybe it’s the helmet that’s been used, but for some reason that doesn’t say “steampunk” to me at all. Maybe if they’d used a German WW*I* helmet – you know, the one with the spike on top for Hogan to hang his colonel’s cap? – it might have worked.
Still looks cool, tho…
Somebody find a screenshot of Lewis’s “Vader mask” from Revenge of the Nerds.
No… *I* am your mommy!
Maybe they never thought of it because the mask seems to already have breathing apparatus behind the mouth grille.
It’d be interesting if the mouth grille and gas mask had been combined rather than just stuck one on top of the other.