Daft Punk Helmet Files

[stirpicus]

So I'm making one of each for me and my roommate to wear come Halloween time, check it out!
Guy-Man is just Pep at this point, Thomas is Bondo'd. I made slight modifications to the models to be more like discovery-era. I've got schematics ready to wire these for LEDs and Walkie-Talkie headsets so that he and I can talk to each other.

Here's Thomas from the front.

Here's Thomas from the side

Thomas being worn

Guy-Man Front

Guy-Man Side

Guy-Man being worn

So yeah, I'm having a good time with these. I'm picking up a mouse sander today to help me out... anyone have any ideas what the heck to do for the visors?

 

[pollocmc]

Hi, New to the site but thanks to the info found here I'm at the final stages of my (or my daughters as it's a bit tight lol) Thomas helmet. I've included a pic of the stage it is at and a pic of my daughter modelling it at a trial fit stage earlier on in the build. She is modelling it and playing air guitar as I've promised to make her a replica guitar in the shape of the spaceship in Interstella 5555 (for any DP fans out there!)

I have a scrolling LED belt buckle to fit and have try fitted the visor with one layer of car window film but will probably go with two to get the correct level of darkness. I'm not really happy with the LED display as it is flat and almost complete obscures vision but time is running out for Halloween so I'll go with it and look for a better solution later. Anyway on to the pics!

Oh and trial visor!

 

[polishedglass]

Hey eric what size did you print your guy-daft punk helmet on pepakura?

what material did you use too?

 

[edatron]

i know theres a bunch of imperfections around the ears of my helmet... but its hardcuz im trying to finish both before halloween so my girlfriend and i have costumes to wear lol!
theres still some tape around the ears (actually these translucent cups) so when i remove it the RGB color changing LED inside will show through the ears...

the Guy helmet has been fiberglasses on the inside... im consulting some friends to see how i can get it vacuum formed at our school.

 

[edatron]

okay so my friend says... that vacuum forming that would be impossible because of its complex shape... and because it has undercuts.... apparently ..... a fiberglassed pep helm can not withstand the pressure of our schools vacuum former... (40 - 50 pounds.)

anybody here got any suggestions? i would hate to resort to "eye holes"

 

[BFDesigns]

okay so my friend says... that vacuum forming that would be impossible because of its complex shape... and because it has undercuts.... apparently ..... a fiberglassed pep helm can not withstand the pressure of our schools vacuum former... (40 - 50 pounds.)

anybody here got any suggestions? i would hate to resort to "eye holes"

you could definitely vacuuform it. just cut the visor out and fill it with urethane, then add shims as needed so that you raise up the top of the visor just enough that you avoid undercuts altogether. Just mark and cut it when you're done.

 

[stirpicus]

Ta-dah!

Obviously kind of rough-looking, but I'm still really proud of how these came out.

 

[foxymcfox]

I've created a custom flat template based on a sculpt I've done of Bangalter's helmet. I traced the patterns on to mat board and have begun assembling it. I'm placing my order for a batting helmet sometime this week, so, hopefully I'll have my new toy done soon.

Here it is roughly held together by tape:

And here it is roughly held together by tape, with the top brim in place:

Since these pictures I have hot glued everything into place except for the top brim. I'm going to wait until my batting helmet comes in to do that so I can make sure I get the best fit possible. I've also begun on the ears, and should be done them very shortly.

I hope to have some more progress soon.

^-^Foxy~>

 

[Bane]

Hey all

I've just finished my Thomas helmet, and it's just in time for Halloween! Yessss...

I didn't have the money to get it chromed, or even buy some of the more expensive chrome paint, so I decided to go for a brushed metal look, because I didn't really like the plain silver all that much. I think it puts a nice spin on it, makes it look a little more....industrial? Maybe? Anyway, I like it

So here are some pics. Sorry they're kind of crappy, but I had to use my Cellphone Cam.


Here it is in progress. Yes I plan to wear it with a suit. Or a motorcycle Jacket.

Here's the finished Product.

And another angle.

And Here it is completed and modeled. I need a black turtleneck or some kind of hood to wear underneath.

So what do you guys think?

Lots of good progress pics from people since I last checked. Keep up the great work, everything's looking good!

~Bane

*Edit*

I have now a picture of the completed costume, check it out

~Bane

 

[stirpicus]

Done.

 

[dyeinbreed]

 

[redragon74]

i listen to a lil bit of daft. but this thread makes me want a DP helm =,=

 

[Toby]

oh man, that is so awesome, I can't find words for it. And I don't know why It's like daft punk: I like then, but I'm not sure why.
Go crazy! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[aooo309]

i basically want you dead.
so i can steal the right one from you.
more than anything.
i'm so effing jealous.
i want that so bad!
price?
hahahahaha.

 

[edatron]

lol halloween was fun!
it sucks all the chrome paint got all fingerprinty...... maybe i should have clearcoated it...
but the chrome got duller and duller as the night went on.... i just couldn't keep the helmet on it kept fogging up.. and i had no mobility with the gloves so i kept taking htem off and putting htem int the helmet while i held the helmet and put fingerprints all over it T_T

 

[Bane]

Looks great, Edatron! Very nice costumes. Did a lot of people recognize your costumes, or no? I had to tell almost every single person who I was! It got kind of annoying, lol. It was still a lot of fun though, of course

~Bane

 

[muffinman868]

Ive seen some pretty sick helmets so i decided to try it out so heres what i got so far:

just pep baseball helmet soda cans and masking tape for now

(masking tape is just temporary)

tell me what you think. is it spaced and layed out right? the pep is a lil small cause it doent quite strech all the way over on each side but do u think its fine?

 

[edatron]

Looks great, Edatron! Very nice costumes. Did a lot of people recognize your costumes, or no? I had to tell almost every single person who I was! It got kind of annoying, lol. It was still a lot of fun though, of course

~Bane

nahh im lucky i live in a place like manhattan... and when my girlfriend and i went to parties id say 50% knew we were daft punk! the dj knew lol he saw us and even span a couple of daft punk songs for us to dance to... it was awesome ppl wanted to take pictures with us and we would like dance attack unsuspecting pedestrians.

 

[4ng31]

I wanna bump this for a reason...

It was brought to my attention earlier that people from this site (Sigma) are posting links to this thread about the hemlets on other prop forums.

I don't appreciate this, as these helmets were done between 3 people (2 channers and myself)...not the 405th. I posted these files up here because I knew the community HERE had been asking for them.

I never intended this board to "assume" credit for these helmet files.

So please...for future reference...watch where you cross link this thread and who you give credit to.

 

[20xx]

As both the originator of the project back on /po/ and a member of this board, I give my approval for 405th linking. Others have contributed with their own files or with work on mine, but my original stuff is free to link around.

IIRC, that would be the original "long ear" Thomas helm, the 3ds files of the lo-res Guy-Man helm, the hi-res Guy-Man helm, and the unedited hand plates. Everything else I've done has been worked on in some way or another (texturing, sizing, unfolding) so give credit where credit is due. But I've no ego about my own work, and I'd rather people come to the 405th, where they'll get proper instructions on how to turn these files into quality wearable pieces, than watch them struggle with them and not get the results they want.