Ok so, I'm back from my hunting trip (brought home a black bear and a 10 point buck) now and I thought i'd post some of my 90+ in progress pictures for anyone whos curious to see how this came along.
I'll start with the helmet since its gotten the most attention, I used a small Skateboard helmet I had kicking around, took all the foam lining out of it and cut it in half, removing a 1/2" of material from the center of the helmet. I did this because the helmet without the interior foam was to large for my head. This could possibly be avoided if you used a childs size skateboard or snowboarding helmet. Now since it was my first time doing this I was experimenting, although I did have an idea in my head of what i wanted. So the easiest way was to cut a strip of 1/4" foam to place in between the 2 peices of helmet (using duct tape to hold the outside together while i fiberglassed the inside) and then using fiberglass sheets (cut to size) fiberglassed and resined the middle of the helmet, first on the inside then on the outside:
Heres the finished fiberglass result:
I then sanded it with a Mouse sander, using a fairly coarse sand paper:
After that I bondo'd it, then sanded again and primed it:
Always use saftey and wear a respirator!
I then took a Grinding visor and cut it to size, fabricated two steel brackets on the sides and bolted them on for support and to keep the plastic in a curved shape:
The the fun part, cutting all the foam out and spending countless hours of quality time with my 2 glue guns! :
And after the base foam was applied then I added the detail over lapping foam parts wherever I wanted raised parts. Now I used Eva foam mat for the front base foan and back of the helmet, then I used 1/4" craft foam for the rest of the helmet. Adding details as I went along. I constantly had reference pictures of what I was doing up and that definatly helps when your unsure of what your doing.
