Want to make your own IG-88 head? Well, first things first you need to attend Star Wars Fan Fun Day on 1st May where Phlut droid builder Bill Hargreaves will be appearing and secondly you need to get over to ebay and get bidding on this Rolls Royce Nene Jet Aero Engine Combustion Chamber / Flame Can which was the basis for the head of IG-88 in The Empire Strikes Back.
Fly Navy Heritage Trust is a charity trying to raise funds here in England to keep their Sea Vixen (a Cold War era) jet flying. Interestingly they have found, in a container of old parts, an IG-88 Droid head (not the actual prop, but the same car part used in the Star Wars films)! Actually, it is a Rolls Royce Nene engine flame tube from the jet exhaust which was used to make the classic Star Wars character’s head. (It can also be found in Chalmun’s cantina.)