Hey yall I’m new to the site. Anyways, I bought a Halloween II mask for Halloween and converted it to an H1. It looks great, the only thing is when I try to take a picture of it, on or off me, or look at it in a mirror, also on or off my face, the jawline is slightly shifted to the right and it just looks bad, but it doesn’t do that in person. Anyone know why?
A lot of these flaws are happening to TOT’s mask because of improper shipping. Some places that ship them are literally folding them in half to fit in smaller cheaper bubble envelopes etc. I’m not sure how you acquired yours but that’s a strong possibility of what has happen.
That makes sense. Got mine from Party City. Any way I could fix it with some good stuffing? This is my first latex mask.
Yeah you could probably fix it for sure I’m just not the right person to ask. Maybe someone else will shine some light on the best way possible. But yeah keeping it stuffed will help.
if you stuff it into the shape you like and very gently and carefully wave a hair dryer over it on a low setting, ‘sometimes’ you can get a mask to pop back into it’s proper shape.
it depends on how cured the latex was when it was first folded.
I have two TOTs masks that have forehead creases that no amount of stuffing, coaxing, or careful warming up w/ hair dryer will fix.
…is what it is, it’s a $60 mask.
And be careful handling it because the latex can get really warm really quick. (and don’t do something stupid like wear the mask while you heat it up, you actually could burn your face. The latex can get that hot very quickly. )
I hate heating up a mask but it’s really the best way I know to try and reshape them. Sometimes you get lucky and the mask gets warm and literally ‘pops’ back into shape. Like it spent some time in the mold and remembers what shape it’s supposed to be.
Others,…stay dented. Even when you’re using a popsicle stick to try and smooth out the forehead dent.
…and then sometimes you put a dented mask on a stand, stuff it and leave it alone for awhile, and then later you look at it and notice it’s sort of fixed itself.
Idk,…these things are weird sometimes.
Picture?
If it’s the H2 from TOTs mine has the same problem. I think it’s possibly the sculpt itself, I could be wrong though.
I noticed when wearing it while looking in the mirror it almost felt like it sat on my head wrong and I would have to shift it slightly to look straight, but then the eye holes were not lined up with my eyes properly.
When displaying it then it’s not really an issue since you can shift it in whatever direction to make it look proper.
I’ve got it pretty overstuffed right now just to show what I mean. I’m trying to add a picture but it won’t show up for some reason.
Exactly, the jawline is completely fine when I have it displayed but when wearing it just shifts to the right and it’s extremely annoying.
Here we go. As you can see, I’ve overstuffed it to the point of a bit of stretching, and the jawline is just misshapen. As for the paint, it looks like crap because it’s stretched. My conversion came out better, I swear…lol
Thanks for this. Don’t know if I should attempt it as I spray painted my mask just last night. I stuffed it for now and hopefully it’ll just fix itself, but I don’t know. What do you think?
idk, that might just be how the mask is shaped. It looks like the other side of the chin needs to be stretched out more to match.
(I see you also have what I’m starting to think of as the trademark TOTS forehead dent. Two of mine have that as well. And nothing I did would get rid of it.)
So let’s say I need to stretch it, how would I do so without damaging the mask? Just pushing on that side of the jaw from the inside will pulling the other side? Or would heating be a better idea?
stuff it the way you want it, heat it, hope it stays that way when it cools down.
Mine also has the dent, thought it was in the sculpt as well. Is this from being folded and shipped in a bag?
More or less probably so depending where you ordered it from a lot of these company’s are literally just stacking these fuckers folded up smashed on top of one another in boxes and or storage bins etc. They don’t give a shit.
If you feel the dent from inside the mask there’ll be a chunk of latex there so probably not. From the mold most likely imo. I could be wrong though.
yes. some of my TOTs masks have the same dent, it’s from being folded and stacked and shipped that way. The mask has spent most of its life folded up so it’s creased. A couple of them also have the right eye (left when viewing) bulging out for the same reason, it’s from being folded, stored folded, shipped folded. It creases the latex and then the latex wants to stay that way.
The crease in the forehead is supposed to be there. It’s part of the original sculpt, and supposedly part of the Hero as well, though I couldn’t find a good picture showing it off. The story behind it is that apparently whenever Nick wasn’t wearing the mask, he’d stuff it in his back pocket creating a crease in the forehead. It’s sculpted into the mask by Justin Mabry. Here you can see it plain as day on the the original Lunatic:
The dent in the forehead is also supposed to be there and is NOT a defect. It’s present in the original Hero as well:
If you still need further proof, the high quality Creep comes in a box, and has both the crease and the dent in the forehead:
The creases on mine are in the exact spot the masks were folded.
This is 5 out of my 6 remaining TOTS masks. (I’ve rehauled and sold 2 of them.) The pt 6 Curse mask which I’m definitely keeping and rehauling for myself has no issues other than lousy paint.
These are the other 5. Two h2’s, One Tramer, One Hospital, One Kirk:
Most likely I’ll just leave them bagged up on the shelf. Not sure what else to do with them. I have a bunch of other projects going on so I don’t really feel like messing with them.
out of 8 masks bought, the Curse is the one that had no issues. Go figure.
I’m interested in the TOT’s pt 7 and 8,…but with this record of inconsistency I doubt I’m going to get them. Because there’s just too good a chance I’ll buy both and they’ll both be messed up.
1 out of 8 are not good odds.
edit: You’re right I do see the forehead crease sculpted into the Creep mask.
To each their own I guess, I don’t think that looks good. Like I said mine all have a crease where the mask was folded in shipping. And the Kirk has a huge crease that runs all the way down the side of his face. And most of them have distorted bulging right eyes.