Hi!
This is my first post so apologies if I did anything wrong. I live in the UK and I am at the beginning stages of building my Noble 6 cosplay (just the base look with the dark steel MKV armour and bronze-ish visor), I understand the creation process for halo visors is a somewhat hot topic on here with a lot of posts asking about it; but alclad II chrome is near impossible to get here.
I also don't own an airbrush (but I am willing to get a cheap-ish one for this purpose), I'm mostly asking if you guys have any alternatives for achieving the same effect for the visor? There is a place which offers a vacuum forming service near where I live and I'm pretty sure I can source the iDye poly stuff here (for a large markup I assume), there is a paint brand called AK interactive which has an airbrush chrome but does it share the same properties as alclad (being mirror chrome but still see-through?
I'm also curious, if anyone can explain, how and why this works (the one way visibility) I understand it's because it's darker on the inside of the helmet but how can you see through the paint? And what is special about alclad? What's the difference between this method and just using a Chrome rattle can for example?
Any advice on alternatives that'll still be see through would be really appreciated and if there's anyone here from the UK who's been through the same process and has any advice even better!
I've looked through hundreds of posts on here over the last few weeks and I've learned so much!
Thank you all
This is my first post so apologies if I did anything wrong. I live in the UK and I am at the beginning stages of building my Noble 6 cosplay (just the base look with the dark steel MKV armour and bronze-ish visor), I understand the creation process for halo visors is a somewhat hot topic on here with a lot of posts asking about it; but alclad II chrome is near impossible to get here.
I also don't own an airbrush (but I am willing to get a cheap-ish one for this purpose), I'm mostly asking if you guys have any alternatives for achieving the same effect for the visor? There is a place which offers a vacuum forming service near where I live and I'm pretty sure I can source the iDye poly stuff here (for a large markup I assume), there is a paint brand called AK interactive which has an airbrush chrome but does it share the same properties as alclad (being mirror chrome but still see-through?
I'm also curious, if anyone can explain, how and why this works (the one way visibility) I understand it's because it's darker on the inside of the helmet but how can you see through the paint? And what is special about alclad? What's the difference between this method and just using a Chrome rattle can for example?
Any advice on alternatives that'll still be see through would be really appreciated and if there's anyone here from the UK who's been through the same process and has any advice even better!
I've looked through hundreds of posts on here over the last few weeks and I've learned so much!
Thank you all
