it really depends on your skill set, i personally can finish a helmate in a Day if im in the mood, or have the time to do it. but i can tell you this, it requires a lot of patience when making this stuff
but for you i would say it would take a week minimum or around there for you to make a good helmate.
now on to the process of making it, you download the program called Pepikura, link here:
http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
dowload *Designer not Veiwer, you will not be able to scale your helmate to fit you if you get viewer **(note it will mention that you need a pass
word for it, this is not true, you can use it without a passcode, however if you make adjustments to the file you will be unable to save your
progress)
after you get the program you than can go to this website to get the Helmate file:
http://halocostuming.wikia.com/wiki/Pepakura_File_Index
before doing you just dive right in you need to size the helmate to your size, for this i recomend you go to this thread, it is very helpful and easy to understand
:
http://www.405th.com/showthread.php...rmour-Tutorial-V.2?highlight=SCaling+Tutorial
the only thing about scaling the armour, is that the peices are no longer fit on a normal page so you must move the peices around so they will fit on the pages
you than print the peices out on Heavy weight Cardstock (a thick, Speical type of paper)
you cut out the 2d peices, fold, glue and follow the template for peiceing them together.
you will then resin the Fully pepekured helmate once on the inside and outside.
you will than go and fiberglass the inside of the helmate *NO OUTSIDE*
after this is done you can apply the bondo body filler to the outside of the helmate to buff and add details
after this is done you will use a painting technique, depends on what kind of style you want your helmate to be
and after it is all painted and made to your standards than you add all the Misc. on it like lights and Walki Talki's
this is just a vegue over view as to the process of what to do, and all the spacifics, you should spend some time doing research on this forum before you just dive right in, you wouldnt want to regret not knowing something that could save you project, or some issue that could have been avoided if the proper steps were followed, so you didnt waist all that time for nothing
as for price wise it costs around *estimate
* 150- 200 for a whole suit, so it should be about 50 -75 dollars max for a helmate build
i wish you luck on your build
//Jeremy