Halo-ing out a used kids mask... Fun

[spaceg0st]

hey everyone! so... my son always admires my helmet and makes me wear it whenever it catches his eye. He's only 2 and a half so i don't think building an actual helmet would work too well, yet.... SO, i bought an extra spiderman mask, and made some changes. These pictures are at about 95% complete... still have a few tweaks and paint to apply.... PLUS a visor... thinking about buying a 8.5x11 plastic canvas from joann's.... but would need info on how to dye yellow. So any help is welcome.

Anyway, thought it was fun and if anyone is interested in doing the same, it's a nights worth of foaming, and then some paint.

Here is the original mask

After foam and Dremelling

And here it is at current form (again 95%ish)

UPDATE... 1/5/13
And Finished

 

[spartansonny]

that is an awesome conversion on that spidey mask! way to put a new use to an old toy

 

[Satchmo III]

This is a cool project. I love the creativity here.

 

[MikyVengeance]

That's really creative! Awesome conversion lol

 

[Spartan_127]

Now that is just plain AWESOME! Love the spidey converted mask.

 

[foxleader]

oh no craters spidey sense is telling us this is about to get out of contorl.

 

[Shadowind]

Very clever.

 

[RTWHOCKEY]

You are going to have one happy kid I wish my dad made me cool stuff like this when I was little. Great job!

 

[Croc co]

Omg we sell those spider man masks at Kmart!
Nice conversion!

 

[spaceg0st]

so i stumbed upon a Bricks Art Store (here in Portland), and it turns out they had some yellow filter plastic... similar to ones you'd use on stage lighting. I got an 18x24 sheet for $3....

Btw... i originally tried a clear plastic Visor i found at ace hardware (motorcycle-esq) for $6.99 and lightly spray painted it with gold... but the vision was just too blurred. You could only make out figures, no details... and because i want him to actually play with the mask (safely) i scrapped it and went with the yellow plastic filter. But here's what it looked like.

it looked cool, but wasn't too functional. Next time i'll probably just get a gold mask off of ebay for $20ish bucks and go that route. Thanks for checkin out my project.

 

[ender9492]

Very cool mask! I'm sure your son loves it!