Masterchafed
New Member
Well, I have been looking on the forums for a week or two now. I have fallen in love to say the least. Before I stumbled across this website, I had almost dished out some money to others selling armor because I didn't think I could do it myself. Well, I have started my own Halo items now, I made a half-as*ed Assault Rifle (pepakura but messed up cause i used clear tape, should have read, lol) and am now working on my helmet, the right way.
I have some questions though.
1. do you cut out the visor of the helmet (pepakura) before fiberglassing, resin, and bondo or after? I see many people cut out the visor beforehand just to find the helmet has no support. so that is quite high on my priority list of questions needing answers.
2. how do you go about fiberglassing a helmet? I see all of these post claiming to clarify my questions about fiberglassing and resining only to find out they didn't answer the most important question of all, where to start.
Anyway, I have all of the pieces of my helmet cut out, scored, and folded. all they need is some glue, so if anyone can answer my questions I would be grateful. Thank you all for the help in advance and thank you 405th for providing a resource for all of the want to be armor makers. I look forward to talking with the great people at this forum.
--Masterchafed
I have some questions though.
1. do you cut out the visor of the helmet (pepakura) before fiberglassing, resin, and bondo or after? I see many people cut out the visor beforehand just to find the helmet has no support. so that is quite high on my priority list of questions needing answers.
2. how do you go about fiberglassing a helmet? I see all of these post claiming to clarify my questions about fiberglassing and resining only to find out they didn't answer the most important question of all, where to start.
Anyway, I have all of the pieces of my helmet cut out, scored, and folded. all they need is some glue, so if anyone can answer my questions I would be grateful. Thank you all for the help in advance and thank you 405th for providing a resource for all of the want to be armor makers. I look forward to talking with the great people at this forum.
--Masterchafed