For a hot second I thought the Roy mask was altered to be the Graveyard mask but there’s too many differences between the two masks. The reason I thought this is because that off white color looks like it could be the same color as the Roy mask. Also, look at the blue paint at the top of the mask. Very similar to the Roy mask.
Definitely close. I thought the window scene could have been the grave scene mask but cleaned, there’s pretty much no way to prove that given the lack of reference we have though.
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Those blue paint marks are kind of strange to be just in that one area and no other. Hey Auz…whats your opinion on the shape of the grave mask? Do you think it matches up in any way with the Roy or totally different. Kind of looks more rounded.
I’m sure they used a consistent process on all of the masks, but the thought crossed my mind.
The two masks are very close. The only thing that gets me is that the graveyard mask doesn’t seem to have the indention from where they filled in the axe mark. You can draw a line and connect both sides of the axe mark on the graveyard mask and it matches up.
Are there blue primers that people would use for mask painting? The blue chips definitely throw me off. Being a non-artist I’d assume you’d use a white/off white/grey primer to paint a mask like this if you were going to use a primer at all. Where do you think the blue comes from?
There are cool toned grey paints and primers. Could even be the type of plastic. I don’t think it’s a bright blue, but more of a cool toned grey.
Jo, I think you’re right on that. Zooming in on Auz’s picture, they appear to be a faded/subdued blue, which could very well be a grey colour and the set lighting makes it have a blueish tint to my eye. And the picture has to be the best/clearest high definition imagine I’ve seen of the grave mask.
Never ever came across a blue primer today so I doubt they they made one 30 something years ago. Looks like grey/blue paint. But it must be some undercoat they applied or used a mask that was paint before they did the grave paint job.
I wonder if that would even be noticeable after they cut that area out? Is there anything else that you see that doesn’t match up to the Roy?
The blue marks are different as well, could have been changed but idk.
Those blue marks are blue and not light reflecting from a gray color. They’re blue in every single shot they’re in.
I think what he means is they are a cool grey/blue that come off as blue in general due to the coloring of the film or other factors, not necessarily that they were painted on blue. Or they could be blue. Almost all thoughts on the Roy are speculation at this point.
That’s a good question, I didn’t think about that but I"ll check it out.
The shape is slightly different from the Roy mask but they could be the exact same shape but just worn differently.
The vent holes seem to match up pretty well from what I can tell. If these masks came from different bucks/molds I’m assuming they both came from the part 4 mask anyway so it probably doesn’t even matter. like you said, maybe the fact that the axe mark is cut on this one means you just can’t seen the indention.
I’m pretty sure it’s blue paint. In some scenes you can see blue under the straps where there’s barely any reflection at all. The same color is also on the graveyard mask and the fact that every scene you can see the blue marks the color is consistent. Scene lighting is set up for each scene. So the lighting is going to change all the time. If the blue color is due to lighting or something like that then the color should change as well but it doesn’t.
While on the subject of the grave mask and the blue paint areas I know this was most likely brought up before but to me I always saw the grave mask to be painted in a way to give it an old chipping effect. The grey areas being the plastic under the chipping off of the white top coat. Others say the grey areas was to represent mud. I would think the FX crew would have came up with a better technique for mud then just grey paint that does’nt wash off in the rain? Just a thought. But I will say when I first saw part 5 and the opening scene, that mask just jumped out from the screen and IMO is one of the best hocks of the series.
The odd part about the blue/grey chips on the masks is that they weren’t always on the Roy mask from what I see.
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No they were not…
So do you think they were added or naturally came about from the intense abuse that mask saw during filming?
Whatever it is, it’s most certainly under the main layer of the Roy paint job. Idk about on the grave scene mask, but if you look at the marks on Roy’s you can visibly see that they’re several layers under the rest of the paint
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