Well it's only taken me a year so far, and the armour's been on hold for a while, but I've now got a fancy dress party to go to so I need to get this finished! I've managed one thigh, and the chest since last I posted and I fixed the bubbles in the visor and added padding. Here's proof:
The helmet with a new, bubble free visor
Showing the padding inside. All I did was cut some foam (the stuff usually used for filling seat cushions with) to shape and stuff it in the helmet. It's not glued or anything.
See, it comes right out. These were the shapes I decided I needed.
And here's a close up of how the visor was installed. I just put the silver film on a flat piece of transparent HIPS plastic, cut the shape you see in previous posts then bent it and glued
round the edges and behind it. I didn't glue the film to the helmet at all, if I had it would have peeled straight off again.
QUESTION: Does anyone know where I can get
cheap buckles and strapping in the UK? I need to join my chest back together and I was going to use
Spitfire's method (page 20) but I need a UK distributor of buckles and strapping cord first.
Also I've got some new brushes on order to resin my new parts, and some 220gsm card for pepping the rest of the kit. Codpiece is pepped to go, left shin came out a good fit but impossible to get my foot through (tips please?) and currently working on pepping right thigh. It's all systems go. I'll not bore you with pics of pep because we've all seen pepped armour pieces before.
I've also discovered a new way to do pep quickly: I'm a teacher at a high school and occasionally I need to put pupils on detention. Detention now consists of scoring lines and cutting shapes....