ODST Helmet: And it starts

[Chewdog316]

Awesome job man. Good one!!!

 

[BlueRealm]

Wow, man is that your first official helmet sculpt? Looks good. Are you using chavant?

 

[Adam]

yeah, first one. and yup, chavant. any tips on how to make the visor fit properly would be awesome. Visor has a wide arc on the bottom, so there will be some artistic license taken for the front view.

 

[spartan113]

This will probably sound REALLY stupid but what type of clay are you using?

 

[Adam]

chavant

 

[BlueRealm]

yeah, first one. and yup, chavant. any tips on how to make the visor fit properly would be awesome. Visor has a wide arc on the bottom, so there will be some artistic license taken for the front view.

Well i would start by actually using the visor in the sculpt. So cut the bill off cut a groove into the face then insert the visor then put the top back on and fill in the seems. I had to do that a few times on my sculpt to get the visor seated right.

 

[Adam]

big question is, what do I use to cut the visor?

 

[Frizzlefry]

Probably have to use a dremmel imo. But I've never done it before, so any other suggestion is probably better than mine. lol

 

[Adam]

tape it up with painters tape, and use a glass cutter... maybe?

 

[Frizzlefry]

It's actually plastic though isn't it? If you have a steady hand, you may be able to just use an exacto knife.

 

[BlueRealm]

You should'nt have to cut the visor. My guess is you could just cut a gap in the clay and seat it in the face and build up clay around it. After molding and casting it in plastic you should just be able to cut out a visor shape hole in the helmet and then apply the visor inside as a whole.

 

[link4044]

big question is, what do I use to cut the visor?

dremel will work

 

[MandoMan]

Ah, didn't realize it was at a slightly different angle than the CG model. Sorry about that, didn't mean any disrespect to your work. :$ops:

It's looking absolutely amazing though, and if I were to try the same thing it would look more like a big mass of clay on a head than a helmet. :mrgreen:

 

[Adam]

no offense taken mondo, I appreciate your attention to detail. Now, to get the visor inside my clay....

 

[Mancubus]

im still looking for a visor XD, i cant wait to see this finished.

 

[falcon NL]

If you want to be verry accurately:
You take a piece of paper and you trim it till it fits in your clay, then you tape you trimmed paper to the visor and then you cut it with a dremel, i personally juse a pneumatic cutter but a dremel will work just fine,

And Adam..damn!! :mrgreen: I looks great, im really wondering how the front will look in the sculpture. And about detail, here are some things the got my attion:

I really admire all the stuff that you do at the same time, at the moment i working at:
- one Halo2 plasma grenade
- ODST helmet ( read my verry first post )
- Life size Halo3 cut-out
- Halo Gnomes

There fore my question is:
How the hell do you find the time to do this stuff Adam?

 

[Adam]

well I mangled my sculpture, but i got the visor in. Pretty close too. It's not going to be perfect, but it will be the best ODST helmet out there (because no one has made one!!!!)

 

[link4044]

thats true

 

[Adam]

again, i had the sculpt in 3 or 4 pieces before getting the visor in. I certainly screwed up the shape, but at least it has a visor in it:

 

[link4044]

its looking good