TwiztedEng
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Awesomeness said:I'm not accusing you of not knowing what you're talking about, I'm stating it as a fact. You don't know. I don't know.
You know, when I signed onto this forum, I was told that although there was a wealth of information here that some of the people here were arrogant and difficult to deal with. I was told this by someone who spent over a year building a full Masterchief suit that rivals the best I've seen on here or anywhere. He has seen thousands of posts here and does not post anymore himself. I thought I'd give it a try anyways because I am a pretty humble guy and didn't think I would elicit such reactions. You are correct in that I have not built a metal helmet before but you are wrong in stating it as a fact that I do not know what I am talking about in regards to working with metal. Some things you have said to me in your last two posts tell me that you are good at doing research on the internet - congrats. I will leave it at that.
I am a very hardworking individual and typically work 80-120 hours a week just to barely pay my bills. I really don't have the time to work on this project but I am going to make time somehow. I especially don't have time to deal with responding to posts that attack me in this way. If you continue to act arrogant and attack my personal knowledge with no real basis I will simply stop posting here and you will be responsible for the rest of this community not being able to watch this build.
Awesomeness said:14ga steel weighs about 3.5lb/sq-ft. A 12" sphere has a surface area of about 6 1/3 sq-ft, meaning it would weigh about 22lb. The helmet obviously isn't a sphere, but is probably somewhere in that neighborhood in terms of surface area. It could be less, because of the mask cutout, or more, because of all the varied faces. That's probably way too heavy to actually (i.e. comfortably) wear, especially when you add bondo, paint, lights, padding, etc. I would personally stay under 20ga (1/2 that weight), and maybe even under 24ga (1/3 that weight).
This is the first piece of constructive response you have given me, and I am actually very happy to respond to it. To summarize what you said - it will be heavy, and possibly too heavy to wear for extended periods. True. Very True. The point of this project though, is to make something different than what has been done before, and have fun with it! I personally think that it will look really cool - in bare steel, not bondoed and painted but just the look of plain bare steel. I think that the most something like this would be worn would be for a few hours at a time at a convention. If I wanted to wear something useful for a full day, I would borrow a close friends full S.W.A.T. gear (although I think that would be highly illegal! haha) Although I am going to make this out of steel, I certainly hope that everyone realizes it isn't being created to be a functional helmet.
Anyway, let's just see what happens and try it out! I'll (probably) start posting some pics soon!
-Darren
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