UPDATED AUGUST 16 2013 IN A REPLY
Hello all. It has been a long time since I have made a post but I am finally making a MK VI Helmet.
I started my Hayabusa helmet in 2009 and it took almost a year to finish the whole armor.
My goal is to have the helmet done for Chicago Comic Con. I have it mostly finished so my next few posts will be photo heavy.
I applied the resin with a sponge brush so it globbed on pretty thick. I will be using a hair brush from now on.
This is the first project where I used an electric sander. They are amazing. It made smoothing Bondo so much easier. They are pretty cheap too.
Spraying with a coat of primer really helped find the imperfections and globs of resin to sand down.
As you can see it is a bit warped. I can never get my peps to stay firm when I resin them.
The week I picked to sand was 90F and I was wearing a jumpsuit to stay dust free. It was way too hot.
After finishing sanding I added some details made out of matte board.
For mounting the visor I used Blackula727's tutorial located here
I used attached 3 nuts to the inside of the helmet with Locktite putty epoxy. It is very nice and it sands well like bondo.
I then crammed putty between the visor and helmet to make a good seal. This was then sanded down and blended.
Next update will be painting.
Hello all. It has been a long time since I have made a post but I am finally making a MK VI Helmet.
I started my Hayabusa helmet in 2009 and it took almost a year to finish the whole armor.
My goal is to have the helmet done for Chicago Comic Con. I have it mostly finished so my next few posts will be photo heavy.
I applied the resin with a sponge brush so it globbed on pretty thick. I will be using a hair brush from now on.
This is the first project where I used an electric sander. They are amazing. It made smoothing Bondo so much easier. They are pretty cheap too.
Spraying with a coat of primer really helped find the imperfections and globs of resin to sand down.
As you can see it is a bit warped. I can never get my peps to stay firm when I resin them.
The week I picked to sand was 90F and I was wearing a jumpsuit to stay dust free. It was way too hot.
After finishing sanding I added some details made out of matte board.
For mounting the visor I used Blackula727's tutorial located here
I used attached 3 nuts to the inside of the helmet with Locktite putty epoxy. It is very nice and it sands well like bondo.
I then crammed putty between the visor and helmet to make a good seal. This was then sanded down and blended.
Next update will be painting.
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