My Master Chief Helmet from Halo 4/5. It's 3d printed!

Status
Not open for further replies.

Dirtsen

Active Member
Before I post pictures... I have to say this first. The very reason I got into prop building was, because I always (!!!) wanted to have a Master Chief Armor! Halo introduced me to my first very own console. Before that I had always shared a SNES or a N64 wit my brother. And it brought a lot of fun, meeting up with friends to play LAN-Games and so on.
So, building this was a matter close to my heart. I had started modeling some Iron Man stuff and built quite a few suits over at the RPF. Even did some commission on suits. But I always wanted to do something Halo related. I had seen a few cool helmet builds at have bought 2(!!!) myself. But it was never quite right... and I am someone who likes to do things by himself rather than buying stuff. So, long story short... I looked at some of the Papakura files and found that Harnor's file was the closest to the new Helmets (Halo 4/5). I got in touch with him last year, and asked him if it was okay to use his file and modify it. He had no problem with that so I went ahead and used the in-game model rip to get the overall shape right, looked at a ton of reference pics and added all the small details one by one.
And then, I printed it... and not too soon because right after that my computer crashed and took all the files with it... Still trying to get the data back. But at least I got to print this one right here. Took me 160 hours of printing time.

2016-04-18 14.55.57.jpg
2016-04-18 14.56.15.jpg
2016-04-18 14.56.42.jpg

What do you guys think? The visor will be vacuum formed and tinted gold. I am in the process of molding the helmet at the moment to make a resin copy of it.
 
If anyone has some advice on how to proceed with the paint job... I'm open for suggestions. The Iron Man Helmets were quite easy regarding that... but the Chief... he puts that Armor through the test if you know what I mean ;P
 
So what I'd do is paint the black parts. Then let it dry completely and tape it over. Then do the green.... but I'm sure you know that. What I do to add battle scars and what not is I get some shiny chrome paint, a very stiff paintbrush, and of course a painted helmet! Then I spray paint the brush with alot of the chrome paint, and then take it to the helmet and kind of "scratch it" that will leave the scratched look and it will look like there is the metal underneath. A stiff paintbrush is important though because if it flexes it will look you just hit it with a chrome paintbrush. So here is a few pictures of it on my Venator Helmet
04d24d0886cb3c313c41758fb86f5bd6.jpg
13f90221f9d6316e1dfe77edfdf2e946.jpg
ae34ac629e2849619d5b4fc3930bb392.jpg


And also your helmet looks amazing! I would be totally interested in buying a cast if the price is reasonable.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G935A using Tapatalk
 

Attachments

  • 13f90221f9d6316e1dfe77edfdf2e946.jpg
    13f90221f9d6316e1dfe77edfdf2e946.jpg
    84.4 KB · Views: 294
  • 04d24d0886cb3c313c41758fb86f5bd6.jpg
    04d24d0886cb3c313c41758fb86f5bd6.jpg
    102.8 KB · Views: 315
  • ae34ac629e2849619d5b4fc3930bb392.jpg
    ae34ac629e2849619d5b4fc3930bb392.jpg
    75.6 KB · Views: 321
Nice print Dirtsen ! I haven't read/watched through it all yet, but I've been told Adam(founder)'s tutorial on painting is quite helpful. Apart from that there are many weathering techniques. I've seen a pretty good one using a method similar to what KaulinD described, but they actually used a file and/or sandpaper to scratch it and they applied the silver spray paint to the file/sandpaper. I think youtube would be very helpful in that regard to finding more techniques. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Thank you for the tips! I'll look into it. For the used look I'll probably go with cold casting with aluminum.
The molding process went pretty well. I have my own technique with vacu forming the mother mold first with a place holder mass in between the helmet and the mother mold. Then I pour in the silicone.


uploadfromtaptalk1469888836736.jpguploadfromtaptalk1469888853563.jpguploadfromtaptalk1469888870342.jpguploadfromtaptalk1469888886825.jpg

Demolding was a success. And now for the first time I could actually wear the helmet. Before that I had designed it with a closed bottom to make the molding part easier. I cut that out a few minutes ago. And it fits me perfectly. I have a 23¾ circumference. The helmet by impact props I got a while back was massive and wouldn't fit me... it was just way too big.

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9195 mit Tapatalk
 
Here is a comparison between the two. Left: impact props... right: mine
0c4d9bec61ad05e8301f5d05258f8fb5.jpg
f887f4c28aedf62c8ebe6f9f62bf78fe.jpg


Gesendet von meinem GT-I9195 mit Tapatalk
 

Attachments

  • 0c4d9bec61ad05e8301f5d05258f8fb5.jpg
    0c4d9bec61ad05e8301f5d05258f8fb5.jpg
    162.8 KB · Views: 324
  • f887f4c28aedf62c8ebe6f9f62bf78fe.jpg
    f887f4c28aedf62c8ebe6f9f62bf78fe.jpg
    147.9 KB · Views: 328
NICE JOB! Your helmet is smaller! That's a great news! I'll totally be interested to buy your cast since I had a small head.

But really, amazing job on the helmet. Piece of beaty.

Also, as for painting - it depends.Chief's helmet is quite easy as it's mainly just 2-3 colors - olive, black, some silver and darker olive in few spots and some weathering.
Depends on how much weathering you want to do. I do my armor with quite lot of wear and tear since there is no way Spartans have magical paint that doesn't wear off after so much stress. And it is noted that GEN2 uses a lot cheaper paint that deteriorates in combat very fast... so no way that Spartan or especially Chief's armor looks still pretty new after so much use. (it is known that Chief upgraded to true GEN2 after Halo 4, both in both games his armor went through so much use and yet - looks like new with few scratches)

Well, as for painting itself - there isn't a lot going on. You just spray your helmet with the desired colors and then block parts for spraying other color. Then - it just depends on how much painting you want to do. Dark wash is always nice, even great, for bringing out the details.
Some people spray the silver paint as their base color and then just scratch off or cover the parts where they want the visible damage. I rather paint my damage later on.

attachment.php
 
Thank you guys for all your feedback! I really appreciate it! I'll keep you updated and some close ups will follow!

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9195 mit Tapatalk
 
As promised, here are some proper Pictures!

Front.png
Perspective.png
Side.png
Back.png

I am starting a run of this helmet next week if anyone is interested.
 
Yeah, that was a lot of work... I started with a very detailed print-setting so the sanding wouldn't be sooooo much work. i just took my time and folded up my sand paper to get into the corners. Also, a sanding sponge works nicely.

wow. i just want to know how the heck u sanding that so freaking detailed thing .

- - - Updated - - -

Nice looking helmet mate!


Thank you very much :)
 
Yeah, that was a lot of work... I started with a very detailed print-setting so the sanding wouldn't be sooooo much work. i just took my time and folded up my sand paper to get into the corners. Also, a sanding sponge works nicely.

what resolution the helmet was printed on ?
 
Experimenting with some materials to make the Visor out of. As you can see this stuff reflects from one side but the visibility from the other side is really good!

uploadfromtaptalk1470927687845.jpeguploadfromtaptalk1470927697798.jpeg
Gesendet von meinem SM-J500FN mit Tapatalk
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top