Torsoboy "we Are Odst" Helmet

[torsoboy]

I've been holding off on posting photos of this project for a while because I wanted to get to (more or less) a final stage on it before making a thread. This helmet started off as the lower-resolution ODST pep file (the one with the reduced detailing). During the pepakura stage, I made several modifications to the base model to change it to the Legacy Effects version. The game version and the LE versions have several differences, and the LE version is quite different from the Weta version as well, so special attention had to be given toward the LE detailing. After scrutinizing screen captures from both the "We Are ODST" commercial and the making-of videos, I got to this point with the pepakura model and at that point hit it with fiberglass. Note that the entire jaw portion was redesigned, as well as the temple areas above the visor and the ear portions:









And then sculpting began as usual. Here it is together with my Recon helmet for size comparison:



















Since this is for a group costume for Dragon Con, I made a two-part mold for this so castings could be made. Starting with a clay retaining wall to shape the mold seam, I then coated each side in five layers of rubber. On the final layer I patted in some cotton cloth (so that it would be embedded into the rubber), and then fiberglassed directly onto that cotton cloth (so that the rubber and fiberglass were one connected piece for simplicity).













Over the past couple days I've been making castings for our group. The first two castings were made out of just fiberglass resin with micro bulb filler in them to make a gel coat. That worked pretty well. Then I tried a casting out of Smooth-On Smooth Cast Onyx, and I ended up not liking it too much because it set up too quickly in this heat (and I didn't have any curing inhibitor on hand). So for the later castings I'll just be using the fiberglass resin.









I'm currently sculpting the visor buck for vacuum forming, so I'm really close to finishing these helmets. We are contemplating selling castings of these after our four helmets are made, but we're going to focus on our costumes before everything else first.

[B1ahh]

Amazing! Those are some BEASTLY ODST Helmets you have there

I like how you've smoothened the top out in the pep work. I sorta wish I did that now

I need to level the whole dome out now with Bondo to get it to match the height of those raised areas above the "ears"

Awesomestuffs!



Anthony

[Goomerspartan10]

can i haz 1? DUDE THATS EPIC!!!! amazing, whenever i try to pep an odst helm it looks like complete crap. THOSE ARE PERFECT!

[shmalofan]

i don't even know what to say.

you are very talented.

[Ruze789]

This is beautiful, love your work!!

This one's on my very long list of things to build, I like what Legacy did with the ODST.



Moving this into the Molded Armor section, no noob here...

[Purrie]

That is... BEAUTIFUL

[Shaymin Sky]

That's awesome. You have modified it perfectly. It also give me a great idea how to go about mine. If i may ask a question though, in the pictures of the sculpting stage, are you using white cardstock to build up detail? Thanks!

[mkshane81]

Wow, now that is a progress post!! Very great job!! That turned out really, really good!! Do you mind if I ask what you used to build the "bridge" during the mold? Which turned out super clean I might add.



-Matt

[MikyVengeance]

oh man!

that looks so perfect!





I love the pep file! is there a link anywhere?

[Shadowshail]

You are very talented man. It looks really good. Cant wait to see the final set up!