hi im new! this is my first post... but i have been lurking here for the past month and have been working on my thomas and guyman helmets ...
first id like to thank 4ng31 and 20xx for the pep models. im soo glad i found this thread.. because i was totally stumped on how to do these helmets until i found this forum so cheers guys
ive had some experience with pep before from 4chan. and one of my buddies in product design in college was using it for his thesis.
these pics are of my printer paper mockup for size.. i scaled mine up to like 27.7cm . im like 5'11" 150lbs and it fit me pretty snug... for my final version i scaled up to like 28 cm
i printed mine on 13"/19" double sided matte paper for the EPSON 1280 i managed to fit all the stuff on like 3 pages.
then i used aquaresin and fiberglass... ill post pictures later when i find my stupid camera charger...
i first coated the paper model with several coats of clear coat then i started laying in the aquaresin. Skullcandy has a thread somewhere about this stuff and i just took the A,C,E trains to Compleat Sculptor on 90 vandam st. in greenwich village in Manhattan. The stuff comes in a liquid part and a powder part and is totally nontoxic and water soluble. i started with the recommended 3parts powder to 1 part liquid ratio which was really watery so i coated it a few more times 1 to 1 ... then laid in the fiberglass on the inside. i then mixed up the aqua resin in a 5 part powder 1 part liquid mix until it was a thick bondo like paste and really slathered it on with an old library card and then sanded it down.. and filled in the dents with spackle then sanded it again then primered it. Ill post pics on the process either here or the aqua-resin thread.
i found the GREATEST chrome spraypaint ever... like its sooo shiny that you can see like really sharp reflections and everything in it...the cap is deceptively silver... but it sprays really nice looking chrome
KRYLON premium original Chrome. its 5$ for a skinny can ... ill post pictures of it later... you can probably get it at new york central or utrecht or something like that.
as for the visor... im thinking i can probably go to canal plastics and order some really thin black tinted plexi or something i can probably heat up and bend to the inside of the visor.
4ng31 what did you use for your visor on your thomas helmet???