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What I did was fold a long piece of cardboard into an "L" shape and scotch taped it to the inside while i'm resining. It also makes a convenient handle.

It's coming along very well!

Looks really nice! Can't wait to see pictures with the visor in.

Heavier BBs will have the same energy as lower weight BBs. They also keep the same speed longer albeit the speed is lower.

But shouldn't motorcycle visors be rated high enough for a pebble to hit it at ~60 mph? A pebble is a couple of grams and even though it's not moving as fast as a BB it will have more force. Also if you guys are into Airsoft check out www.airsoft-barracks.com, I'm a mod there. (Sorry if that's...

For clips you could use these. http://www.diytacticalstore.com/catalog/in...products_id=121

Wow, that looks pretty cool. The black armor is sooo glossy. :D

Home Depot and Lowes both have resin, respirators, fiberglass, pretty much everything you need to get started. Also at Home Depot you can but Dremel clones that aren't as good but a lot cheaper. I think Black and decker makes one.

The resin that you put the fiberglass in hardens and it makes it very hard and stiff. The resin works like epoxy which as many people know, is very strong.

I'd try using sheet styrene for the supports. It's easy to cut and definitely strong enough for this. One problem is that it won't really look smooth like Guy's visor is

Ice told me about it.

Thanks guys. I'm resining the first piece today so I'll let you know how it turns out.

Hi everyone, I'm Yubbermax. I have looked around on the forum before but I finally got into actually building after my friend introduced me to Pepakura. I had thought before the only way to make armor was by molding. Before I bought anything I decided that as an easy first project I'd start...