PdxHosedragger
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I should have been doing this posting as I went, so this first section will be a bit of 'catch up' and will be updated frequently...
I love Halloween. I also happen to love Halo. So after many days of surfing the web I stumbled across this gem of a website and got hooked with every posting I read. I pretty much drove right to the store to get the basic supplies to start folding paper. I thought I'd try a different route to achieve the same product and failed quite miserably. First off, instead of going straight to hot glue, I used the permanent version of the double sided tape in a dispenser that scrap bookers use. While being very strong and flexible, my initial test coat of resin completely destroyed its bond and left id falling apart before the resin could cure. I then switched to an old standby. I build r/c airplanes and choppers, and use thin cyanoacrylite adhesive (thin super glue) because of it's ability to penetrate into a joint. This was awesome except that it also wicked into the creases of the paper rendering the folds locked permanently in whatever angle they were in during gluing. Boo.
So after doing the crown and visor section of the Flying Squirrel version with super glue I switched to hot glue. This of course was after building a low res bucket that could have fit Andre the Giant. I learned about scaling pretty quick after that! So here are some photos of my progress so far... Please comments, especially tips, tricks and advice are always welcome.
This is the portion of the helmet that I used super glue. It was really too rigid. I had to put additional bracing inside during resining to ensure it stayed straight.
Several coats of resin later:
I used a remarkably small amount of Bondo. I used a lot of resin in some of the flat parts, minimizing the amount of Bondo needed and where I put it. I also use an x-acto to trim the paper smooth in some places prior to resin. This all seemed to speed the process up.
Primer and spot putty. OK, a LOT of spot putty.
I've always thought that gray primer had more build and was easier to sand so I switched at this point...
Painted with the base coat and with the visor just sitting in there. This alerted me to yet another problem. I did not have the visor on hand during my pep and resin process, so the nose piece was pointed back a little too far, keeping the visor from hitting the frame tightly all the way around. A hacksaw cut and some putty remedied that but it still sucks cutting into new paint!
The helmet needs finishing touches. More to come, thanks for looking!
I love Halloween. I also happen to love Halo. So after many days of surfing the web I stumbled across this gem of a website and got hooked with every posting I read. I pretty much drove right to the store to get the basic supplies to start folding paper. I thought I'd try a different route to achieve the same product and failed quite miserably. First off, instead of going straight to hot glue, I used the permanent version of the double sided tape in a dispenser that scrap bookers use. While being very strong and flexible, my initial test coat of resin completely destroyed its bond and left id falling apart before the resin could cure. I then switched to an old standby. I build r/c airplanes and choppers, and use thin cyanoacrylite adhesive (thin super glue) because of it's ability to penetrate into a joint. This was awesome except that it also wicked into the creases of the paper rendering the folds locked permanently in whatever angle they were in during gluing. Boo.
So after doing the crown and visor section of the Flying Squirrel version with super glue I switched to hot glue. This of course was after building a low res bucket that could have fit Andre the Giant. I learned about scaling pretty quick after that! So here are some photos of my progress so far... Please comments, especially tips, tricks and advice are always welcome.
This is the portion of the helmet that I used super glue. It was really too rigid. I had to put additional bracing inside during resining to ensure it stayed straight.
Several coats of resin later:
I used a remarkably small amount of Bondo. I used a lot of resin in some of the flat parts, minimizing the amount of Bondo needed and where I put it. I also use an x-acto to trim the paper smooth in some places prior to resin. This all seemed to speed the process up.
Primer and spot putty. OK, a LOT of spot putty.
I've always thought that gray primer had more build and was easier to sand so I switched at this point...
Painted with the base coat and with the visor just sitting in there. This alerted me to yet another problem. I did not have the visor on hand during my pep and resin process, so the nose piece was pointed back a little too far, keeping the visor from hitting the frame tightly all the way around. A hacksaw cut and some putty remedied that but it still sucks cutting into new paint!
The helmet needs finishing touches. More to come, thanks for looking!
