Help Me Please! Vaccum Forming A Helm!

[HellJumpa]

Hey all, if your reading this then you could probabally help me out. I really need some help here as you've already read, because i'm making an ODST helmet. I havent got a lot of time and i need to make three of them. i decided to go with Vaccum Forming. I'm making the helmet out of paper (pep) as you do, how and what would i do next in the process of making 3 identical ODST helmets?



Please help! :unsure



Yours, HellJumpa

 

[H1rg0n]

Couple of questions?



Do you have a vac table or access to a vac table?



If you do what are the specs of the table?



How much detail do you want in the helmet?

 

[mattmann1]

After you finnish peping it you will need to re-enforce it.

 

[pilotpapakilo]

to do a whole helmet your going to have to have a huge table and I dont think your going to get the detail you want. I would suggest making a mold and casting the new helmets... plenty of tuts out there for it too!

 

[P03SAUCEZ]

Just cast it!

Here's a helpful tut http://405th.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23460&pid

 

[ARMYofONE2469]

Just cast it!

Here's a helpful tut http://405th.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23460&pid

Yeah dude I wouldn't Vac it, just make a mold dude.... plastic is 80$ a gallon.

 

[papasmurf]

here are some options

1# if you vac. form it you'll have to do it in two parts (front and back) you also need a vac. form table if you dont have one you need to make one.



2# if you cast it you`ll have a one piece helmet all you need to make is a stand for helmet to sit to make the mold.



in option 1# you`ll end up with a low to medium detail helmet and in option 2# you´ll have a high detail helmet



its all up to you on what you want. i would go with casting it because with vac. forming you have to deal with wrinkles, correct oven temp. and having a good seal etc. while with casting its pour in go. i hope this helped.

 

[HellJumpa]

Cheers guys, i did want some detail, so mould it?

 

[HellJumpa]

Guys, thanks for being a great help- 2 more things,

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What about the custom jagged visor?



how would i mould?

 

[soul products]

you actually can vacuum form the visor as long as u have the original visor from the model