Recon H3 my first prop build ever

[TheSlammerss]

Hello 405th members, lets get this out of the way im a noob at this and this is my first ever build so help is always needed lol.

This is after all of the pieces where cut out and organized

front shot

side shot

fun shot lol
now that I finished pep-ing(i finished that about 2 weeks ago lol)
I built a stand and some supportive cross-bars (out of BBQ skewers) to help support the helmet when ill cover the outside in resin
inside

hopefully Ill be done with the first layer of resin tonight and will have an update soon,
again if you guys or gals have any ideas or comments that could help, that would be great
~Slammerss
ps:sorry for the terrible ipad quality pictures, ill be using my camera from now on

 

[PigBenis]

Not bad my friend not bad.

First of all welcome to 405th ! im happy to meet you . and ill be following ur thread since i like recon :X


Well i guess u have some experience at least u read stuff through and informed yourself huh? thumbs up for that attitude !

greets from austria ed

 

[TheSlammerss]

Not bad my friend not bad.

First of all welcome to 405th ! im happy to meet you . and ill be following ur thread since i like recon :X


Well i guess u have some experience at least u read stuff through and informed yourself huh? thumbs up for that attitude !

greets from austria ed

Yes you are correct I have been reading tutorials and reading the stickies online now its all down to practice practice practice lol

 

[PigBenis]

Yes you are correct I have been reading tutorials and reading the stickies online now its all down to practice practice practice lol

Glad that u did !
If i can help u in any way feel free to ask .

greets ed

 

[TheSlammerss]

Glad that u did !
If i can help u in any way feel free to ask .

greets ed

Yes lol I'm lad you asked lol I can't find any really useful reference pictures for the details lines

 

[PigBenis]

Yes lol I'm lad you asked lol I can't find any really useful reference pictures for the details lines

Look what ive found !

Its pretty beatiful and i guess it will help u .

 

[TheSlammerss]

Look what ive found !

Its pretty beatiful and i guess it will help u .

Thank you that is pretty nice, but this is cooler idk if i shoudl try and go for all of these fancy details but it would look epic

 

[PigBenis]

Thank you that is pretty nice, but this is cooler idk if i shoudl try and go for all of these fancy details but it would look epic

Oh ok u got me ! i wasnt looking like a min so .
well yours will be taff... and u will need a lot of time !
But if u have the time and the patience. it would look pretty epic.
Well that one is a beauty!

 

[DocDailey]

Welcome to the 405th!

Great job and organization in you pep work. Very well done indeed. I've already completed this helmet, and yes it was my 1st attempt too. You will not need all those support skewers. The helmet is very sturdy and the probability of it warping is only dependent on: 1. how much resin you put on/how large a section. 2. The temp you do it in.

The hotter it is outside the more warping will occur, and the larger the area you try to resin at one time will do the same. So please just use 1 ounce of resin with 12 drops per go.....and let it dry! Then do the same thing inside with some fiberglass. Rondo will not cut it on a helmet.

If you want to do the detail, I think that is an admirable effort. I recommend useing super sculpy. I can explain how to use it if you want, but I'll wait to see if you want to try.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing your progress.

 

[TheSlammerss]

Welcome to the 405th!

Great job and organization in you pep work. Very well done indeed. I've already completed this helmet, and yes it was my 1st attempt too. You will not need all those support skewers. The helmet is very sturdy and the probability of it warping is only dependent on: 1. how much resin you put on/how large a section. 2. The temp you do it in.

The hotter it is outside the more warping will occur, and the larger the area you try to resin at one time will do the same. So please just use 1 ounce of resin with 12 drops per go.....and let it dry! Then do the same thing inside with some fiberglass. Rondo will not cut it on a helmet.

If you want to do the detail, I think that is an admirable effort. I recommend useing super sculpy. I can explain how to use it if you want, but I'll wait to see if you want to try.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing your progress.

Thanks Im trying not to rush or be impatient with this but seening as that I have about a week till school I kinda wana finish this up quickly so i can begin my mascot outfit for my schools robotics team havent thought of what pieces of halo armor but Ill figure that out later.

Yes its been hot here where I live and today was the perfect day to resin the outside. I may or maynot do alot of details on this guy but if i ever remake this helmet and want it to look crazy ill probibly do that, anyway is super sculpy like mighty putty?

question on your camo helm, how long did that take you to paint it and how did u do it?

tomorrow i will have an update on the resin layer and then will begin to fiber glass
yay!

 

[DocDailey]

The actual painting on the helm only took 1 day. The prep work to do it took another day. If you check out my thread you can see I've already put the info on how to do the digi paint job. Idk what might putty is...Super sculpy is a polymer clay that is required to bake to harden. Then you can sand, carve, or paint to your hearts content.

 

[TheSlammerss]

finshed adding layer #2 of resin today. sucks im going on a weekend trip so no new updates till probibly tuesday or wednesday

ill post a pic of the resin layers in a bit

 

[TheSlammerss]

UPDATE TIME YAY

Three photos of first layer of fiberglass
spent all day working on laying then did some arrands and bought more supplies for detailing.
cant wait to get start but today is now over and school begins again idk when ill be able to post again
Thanks 405th-ers!
happy building

 

[TheSlammerss]

hey guys its been awhile school is a time killer, anyway im currently in the bondo process. i got my visor, really dissapointed about it not what i wanted so getting a new one but before i went a bought a new visor i placed the wrong one in and noticed that the helmet contour is so messed up. any ideas on what to do thanks guys and gals

 

[Stiilus]

hey guys its been awhile school is a time killer, anyway im currently in the bondo process. i got my visor, really dissapointed about it not what i wanted so getting a new one but before i went a bought a new visor i placed the wrong one in and noticed that the helmet contour is so messed up. any ideas on what to do thanks guys and gals

you would be surprised just how flexible visors are. i reckon most regular visors (non bubble) would fit in there without a worry. try putting it back in and then flexing the sides of the visor with your hands to get it to fit. of the three helmets i'v done so far, none of the visors were a perfect fit, they all had to be flexed to get them to look right. when you've got it sitting roughly where it should sit and fixed in place, you can backfill around the edges from outside the helmet with filler to make it look like it's a perfect fit. just remember to mask off the visor with a painters tape or something, you don't want to get filler on it as it can ruin it. swing by my armour build (link in my sig) and check out the process on my mkv helmet to see what i mean. it's probably the wrong visor to what you're using, but the fitting technique will still be exactly the same. best of luck

 

[TheSlammerss]

you would be surprised just how flexible visors are. i reckon most regular visors (non bubble) would fit in there without a worry. try putting it back in and then flexing the sides of the visor with your hands to get it to fit. of the three helmets i'v done so far, none of the visors were a perfect fit, they all had to be flexed to get them to look right. when you've got it sitting roughly where it should sit and fixed in place, you can backfill around the edges from outside the helmet with filler to make it look like it's a perfect fit. just remember to mask off the visor with a painters tape or something, you don't want to get filler on it as it can ruin it. swing by my armour build (link in my sig) and check out the process on my mkv helmet to see what i mean. it's probably the wrong visor to what you're using, but the fitting technique will still be exactly the same. best of luck

well im goning to need to cut the visor down because its way to big, as for flexablity my visor isnt all to flexable :/ stiilus i love ur threads ur work is awsome and i understand the filler part. but i have some really really large gaps to fill not pretty. ill try my best to figure out a way to make it work thought. ps when your going to put the filler in do u mount the viosr first or after?
Thanks so much
~update later tonight~
TIME FOR UPDATE!
top

the sides

my derpy shadow getting in the way

back

I did as much work as i could not 100% done with first layer of bondo, and i need more lol

i know it look really yuky and gross but hopefully all that will disapper with a good sanding

 

[TheSlammerss]

----Small update----

will start to sand away the high spots this weekend. plus bonus days i get both friday and monday off so more time to work yay

 

[TheSlammerss]

sorry for the double post
but update time
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this is after the first day of sanding

thats just after a quick past with the good old orbital sander, 150 grit, went pretty fast
i will have more pics up later of the 2nd sanding later
ps srry for the crappy pics

 

[TheSlammerss]

Hey guys well a problem has come up and I knew it would happen but I thought I was going to be able to handle it but I don't thin I can. I peped the detail piece inthe top and taped it of a put resin ontthe outside but not inside so it's pretty weak. I'm debating on ripping it off cleaning off the area and making the detail piece out of basswood. Do u guys think it's a good idea? I mean right now when I was sanding the bondo on it it started to rip a part would really appreciate any adivce thanks

 

[Charlie117]

awesome helmet, may i ask wich file is this?? because it looks so smooth and nice easy to build and great for starters!