Thom's ODST Helmet

[tmccarty23]

Hello all and welcome to my first attempt at resin and rondo. I am attempting to create a Rookie helmet, and like I said, this is my first attempt at this so all advice and opinions are welcome. The pep file that I used is an awesome Rookie helmet modeled by Rundown. I already have it pepped out, and plan on getting to the rondo in a couple of days.

Here are a couple of pics that I took once I finished pepping it. Let me know what you guys think.





Once again, all comments are welcome, even the negative ones. There is only one way to learn and that is to jump in a do it. Thanks.

[Stormspirit]

thats looks awsome hope turns out nice

[Fred-104]

Good job! hope it turns out good!

[Minigunner]

No dude that looks great for your first try. I am doing the HD one and dang is it taking for ever.

[Hugh Holder]

Very cool man, looks like you got the boring part of the build out of the way

Killian's ftw

[tmccarty23]

Thank you guys for all the support. I plan on doing some slush casting with rondo tonight, and I should have pics up tonight or early tomorrow. I learned from watching Mr. Ben Streeper's tutorial on it, that the ratio of body filler to resin is pretty heavy. Any last minute words of advice?

[Hugh Holder]

As long as you mix around 3-4 times the amount of body filler to resin it's pretty difficult to mess up the rondo process

I suggest putting 3-4 more light coats of resin on the outside of your helm after you rondo it. Then do some medium/heavy sanding over the helm (even through paper if you need to) then a quick spray of primer+wet sand to see what you need as far as Bondo work goes. Don't go crazy with bondo and cake that stuff on, the helmet has sharp edges and corners on it, since you pepped it you might as well retain them.

On my odst helm I only used a very VERY small amount of body filler on the dome and lower back of the neck area. I realized I could just apply resin and sand off the cardstock fold lines.

[tmccarty23]

Thank you very much Hugh, I will keep that in mind when I am refining it with the body filler. That is some damn good advice sir.

[tmccarty23]

Ok, I did the rondo work last night and I am fairly pleased with the outcome. There are a couple of place I will certainly have to use some body filler, but no nearly as much as I first thought. I think I will have to add some more rondo inside around the lower brim, because it is a bit top heavy. If anyone knows of a better way to shift the weight towards to bottom area of the helmet, I am all ears.

Anyway, here is my resined and rondo'd helmet. Let me know what you think. Thanks

[Risingzan]

I have to say, that's some incredibly clean pep work. Its hard to tell in your most recent pic if you experienced some warping in the edges/details of the helmet after your rondo work, but it looks great.