Sean Bradley
Sr Member
Hey 405th!
It's been a while since I've had time and something new to contribute here, so I'm really thrilled to show off one of my newest projects to you!
A few months ago Laird MacLean (Halo Unyielding, Paid in Blood, RvB CanWest) contacted me about donating something to his upcoming auction to benefit Child's Play, the game industry charity that provides games, toys and entertainment to kids in hospitals around the world. After some discussion about the details, I offered to make him a one-of-a-kind ODST helmet for his auction, and to jam-pack it with as many extras as I could muster. I finished this helmet last week, and shot a commercial to show off the helmet for the auction and to demonstrate the custom paint and new feature that I came up with for it: a changing transparency visor effect.
I first thought of how to change the visible transparency of the dark tinted visors with backlighting a few months back, but didn't have an opportunity to test it out until Laird approached me to make something for the auction. I thought that this might draw some extra attention to his fundraiser for Child's Play, and would be a great way to show off this lighting effect to all the other ODST's out there!.
The effect is really simple, I imagine that any of you who want to install it can do so pretty easily. I wired my own led lights inside the brim of the helmet, it's truly no different that the type of LED wiring that everyone installs into their Master Chief helmets, view a tutorial here:http://www.instructables.com/id/LEDs-for-Beginners/ , just that I left the ends of the LED's flexible, so that I could aim them inside the helmet evenly light the face, and to not shine directly into the eyes.
EDIT: Due to new forum image limitations, I had to cut out several photos of the explanation of how the LED's were installed to create the transparency effect, but you can still read about it here: http://www.therpf.com/f24/custom-odst-helmet-made-charity-auction-87679/
Lights Off.
Lights On!
The auction for this helmet begins tomorrow, I'll be updating the addresses in the YouTube description and in the post here when Laird has everything ready to go.
In the meantime if you'd like to see more photos of the finished Child's Play custom ODST helmet you can look through my photobucket gallery here: http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/ScaryMonkey75/Laird Auction ODST Helmet/Finished Helmet PICS/
or if you'd like to see more pics of the process of making this helmet and applying the battle worn paint and graphics go here: http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/ScaryMonkey75/Laird Auction ODST Helmet/
What do you guys think?
-Sean
It's been a while since I've had time and something new to contribute here, so I'm really thrilled to show off one of my newest projects to you!
A few months ago Laird MacLean (Halo Unyielding, Paid in Blood, RvB CanWest) contacted me about donating something to his upcoming auction to benefit Child's Play, the game industry charity that provides games, toys and entertainment to kids in hospitals around the world. After some discussion about the details, I offered to make him a one-of-a-kind ODST helmet for his auction, and to jam-pack it with as many extras as I could muster. I finished this helmet last week, and shot a commercial to show off the helmet for the auction and to demonstrate the custom paint and new feature that I came up with for it: a changing transparency visor effect.
I first thought of how to change the visible transparency of the dark tinted visors with backlighting a few months back, but didn't have an opportunity to test it out until Laird approached me to make something for the auction. I thought that this might draw some extra attention to his fundraiser for Child's Play, and would be a great way to show off this lighting effect to all the other ODST's out there!.
The effect is really simple, I imagine that any of you who want to install it can do so pretty easily. I wired my own led lights inside the brim of the helmet, it's truly no different that the type of LED wiring that everyone installs into their Master Chief helmets, view a tutorial here:http://www.instructables.com/id/LEDs-for-Beginners/ , just that I left the ends of the LED's flexible, so that I could aim them inside the helmet evenly light the face, and to not shine directly into the eyes.
EDIT: Due to new forum image limitations, I had to cut out several photos of the explanation of how the LED's were installed to create the transparency effect, but you can still read about it here: http://www.therpf.com/f24/custom-odst-helmet-made-charity-auction-87679/
Lights Off.
Lights On!
The auction for this helmet begins tomorrow, I'll be updating the addresses in the YouTube description and in the post here when Laird has everything ready to go.
In the meantime if you'd like to see more photos of the finished Child's Play custom ODST helmet you can look through my photobucket gallery here: http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/ScaryMonkey75/Laird Auction ODST Helmet/Finished Helmet PICS/
or if you'd like to see more pics of the process of making this helmet and applying the battle worn paint and graphics go here: http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/ScaryMonkey75/Laird Auction ODST Helmet/
What do you guys think?
-Sean
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