My Armor (in progress)

[Sarge Christi]

haha, that just gives me another excuse to get back on my 360 and play Halo.
"Dad I'm just researching colors..."
"Christi, for 5 hours?"

 

[link4044]

sounds like me, i tell my girlfriend that im doing resreach

 

[Spartan 110]

lol

 

[MustangMatt]

LMFAO!!! Wait, that really is research! :birthday:

 

[TheBlue]

I say go blue! as you can see its my fav. color...heh...

 

[SPARTAN 053]

Great helmet christi, cant wait to see it finished :dee:

 

[Sarge Christi]

I kinda wanna do some red details, like the middle stripe on it.
I like red and blue together. Or blue and yellow

 

[Sarge Christi]

I'm not in AZ, I'm in Georgia. It's hot. Hot hot hot.

Oh, here's some newer pics.
We put on a test layer of spray paint to see how it looks.
We realized we had to use a LOT of bondo. We made... alot of mistakes. You could even see the fibre glass cloth edges. *tear* But my dad let me use bondo... by myself...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Phot...pg?t=1184986078

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Phot...pg?t=1184986117

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Phot...pg?t=1184986139

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Phot...pg?t=1184986161


Well. suggestions?

 

[Doom]

Try to stay ontopic guys (and girls ;-) ) and not talk about where we are living and how hot it is...

Helmet is looking pretty good ! Not bad for one built from scratch!

Good Luck!

-Doom

 

[Sarge Christi]

anywho. helmet comments, questions, suggestions?

(singapore=18 hour plane ride)

 

[Sarge Christi]

Thanks Doom. I really wanted to cry when i saw what my helmet looked like when I spraypainted it. It looked(looks) ugly. Haha.

I reckon since this is my first try with fibre glass, I shouldn't be TOO upset. I'm doing most of the work anyways. My dad just tells me how to do stuff.

 

[link4044]

just dont give up

 

[darkesword2020]

just dont give up

That's exactly what I said just a minute ago through PM! : P

 

[WanderingRon1n]

thats the biggest problem i think with alot of people. never give up never surrender. we are spartans ;-) we know not defeat. keep at it. its good for a girl. haha jk. i dont like blue. red is better but, its good.

 

[honest insanity]

haha yay im glad to see another Blue Spartan here
im not the only one! haha.
I had come across the idea of using the whole baseball helmet as a base. Then taking pepakura print outs of the helm and transferring them to cardboard. Fold in respective pieces (ex: top helm portion, cheek left, right) and pasting it using fiberglass cloth. so far i haven't had to big of an issue with it.

 

[The Ragin Pagan]

What's the frosting looking stuff? Is that fiberglass? Never worked with fiberglass, so I dunno what it looks like...

 

[MustangMatt]

Bondo most likely. It is gooey like melting frosting mixed with peanut butter.

 

[Spartan 270]

Looks good. Just remeber dont give up. I had to redo my pepakura helmet like 5 times could it was either too big or too small. ;-)

 

[Spartan 110]

looks good, keep up the good work.

 

[Sarge Christi]

Bondo most likely. It is gooey like melting frosting mixed with peanut butter.

It is bondo. I had to slop and smooth alot on there.

And thanks for the support guys.
Next on my to-do list, get a boyfriend who will do this for me. Jus kiddin.

Actually. My dad and I are going to REfibre glass it. 'Cause we had (or better, I had to) fix a spot on the helmet where one part of the brim was larger than the other. XD