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Personally I don't have the patience to use contact cement. You have to wait like 5 minutes before gluing each piece! CA glue is so much faster. What do you use indigoD0g?
I use contact cement for each piece, and reinforce the back of high stress seams with a small bead of hot glue on the inside. I live in an area that is pretty warm and dry all summer, so my contact cement dries within 2-3 minutes. During that time, I usually tend to other pieces that have already dried. It's a process, but if you organize your time right, it won't take all day for the glue to dry.
 
ok super quick question using helmet add one to cover gaps i made my first time doing this thoughts and if someone else did it please post a pic of it. oh and

PerniciousDuke i use DAP i think that's what it's called​

 
ok i'm almost done but i'm waiting for the visor but here what's the helmet looks right now on the you seen worse first time doing it on 1 to 10 1 being carp
 

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Best advice I can give is just keep on going. You will naturally get better over time with practice.
Maybe try a little less glue per join to avoid seams overflowing.
I used way too much glue on my first foam build and had similar issues.

It's turning out good overall though! :D
 
ok wait for the visor i bought off Etsy to use me to help finish building the helmet. so i'm starting on the chest. i got the idea to use parachute buckles to have it able to come apart for easy getting it on. plan A was to have them inside the armor but i moved to outside so i was going to use a back pack or jet pack to his them but i looked up the odst back pack i dow that the armor has straps on it so i can just put them on and i would still be good. and this plan allows me to get my head to fit without cutting. is this something that others have done before
and i don't have a camera use i'm using my ipod
 

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ok helmet is done to the point where i can paint it
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so sealing the foam any ideas i could so i was planing on using wood glue but i heard people using plasti dip. you have a fav way of sealing
You should look into gap filling and sanding seams flush before moving onto adding anything further to the helmet. If you have a rotary tool it'll help immensely but even a simple block with sandpaper will help clean up seams that are proud on either side.
 
You should look into gap filling and sanding seams flush before moving onto adding anything further to the helmet. If you have a rotary tool it'll help immensely but even a simple block with sandpaper will help clean up seams that are proud on either side.
i was planing on using add ons to cover them but i used some scape foam to fill some the gaps not going to lie not my best. the 2nd pic is a rough(153% on rough) of what i was planing to do with the side gaps com on the right light on the left
ps Using contact cement to seal EVA foam as anyone done that
 

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I've continued to use hot glue partially because i have so much of it and also because I just haven't gotten around to trying any type of contact cement. The got glue "mess" is usually covered up by the end of the painting process or is at least too hard to see from any distance to be noticed really by anyone but you. From personal experience you, the creator, tends to be the harshest critic of any piece you work on.
 
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