Hardening, first try!

Today, I bought some resin  and fiberglass cloth and started with the hardening of the helmet.

 As you can see, there is already some fiberglass on the inside of the helmet, and we mixed some of the resin with the hardener. Oh, and there is a badass, two-headed dinosaur in the background, rawr!

 Applied some of the resin, it's a lot more fiddling and mess than the papercrafting.

 Finished applying the resin we had to put some more hardener on it, because we didn't put enough of hardener in the mixture at the beginning.

And this happens if you forget to buy thinner and hit the table with the rock-hard brush. Also, Monster Rehab ftw!

Even tough it's some hard work, it's fun to do it because you can already see a bit of the result in your work.

The guy who is holding the helmet in the second picture helped me with the resin because he already has some experience with it, he also has a blog, currently only about his Lego creations and in German, but he will make some more posts about his papercrafts and in English. He also took most of the pictures today.
Before I continue working with the resin, I'll have to get some thinner because I don't want to kill another brush.

Project: "New Vegas": Papercraft finished!

Yep, the papercraft stuff for the helmet is finished!

As you can see, there is some tape, but it will be removed as soon as the helmet ist hardened.

 But I don't know why there's a hole, but it could be useful for placing a switch for the LEDs and the fan I'll put on the inside of the mask. I think a fan and some small airholes will be indispensable because even with the paper it gets hot inside the mask after a few minutes.

I also cut open the helmet where the lamps are placed, so it will be easier to put the resin and fiberglas on the inside.

If everything works like I've planned it, I'll have the resin and fiberglass by saturday afternoon.

By the way, I'm a bit undecided about the colour, it will be gray for sure, but I cant decide between a darker gray, light gray or maybe a slightly greenish gray.

Oh, and if someone wants the model, I got it from this thread on 405th.

Project "New Vegas": Small update.

Today, I built the rear part of the mask and the connection between the mask and the helmet.

The big arc above the mask is where the helmet will be glued to. Also, there is this round spheric thing, which I really don't know what it should be, maybe a piece of the headphones inside the mask?

And as you can see, there is a little silver clip. I didn't glued this part together, because if I did so, the hole would be too tight for my head. I'm going to put some velcro fastener to this place, so I can put on the helmet, and close this part, because it still fits around my neck. Or maybe, I'm going to remove this entire piece if it's not visible after the helmet is attached to the mask.

The next and last part, are the lamps on the right side of the helmet, I think I'm gonna built them tomorrow or at latest until the weekend.

~So long

Project "New Vegas"

I'm "working" currently on a papercraft model of the NCR Elite Ranger from Fallout New Vegas, here's a picture of one of these guys:

fallout.wikia.com

This is what the helmet looks like at the moment.

The 11 pages that I still have to cut out, fold and glue together, are the backside of the mask, the camera/lamp thingy on the right side, and a piece on the inside of the mask to connect it to the helmet. Now the two parts are not yet connected to each other.

After I've finished the papercraft, I'm gonna use resin and fiberglass fabric to harden the entire thing.

When it's hard (tehehe), there's some grinding to do, to get a round helmet.

This is going to be some fun, since I've never done it before.

I think the whole thing still looks a bit too wide, but this will be an easy fix imo.

So, I think I'm going to continue the work on tuesday evening, and then posting a new picture.

By the way, I'm not going to post pictures of the previous steps because they were taken with my phone and therefore don't look that good.