Dirtdives2424
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I'm in the home stretch of 2 builds as well and can attest to the being coated in god knows what...... paint/glue /blood.....sorry no tears for me thank you.
Danielles Halo Reach Build (Pic Heavy)
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TurboCharizard
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I had to sew a full duster for this one, hence the blood sweat and tears. Luckily no kerosene to light the whole project and let it be cleansed.
Spartan55
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Well at least you have your kelly costume?
But looks great anyway and I can't wait to see the end product. But......
No #spartaninatub
Also on a quick note
Whereisdanielle lives in Australia
And for us who live down under it's winter right now. Hard enough for me to do fibreglassing were i'am can't imagine how hard it would be to paint with the weather on that side of Australia
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Well at least you have your kelly costume?
But looks great anyway and I can't wait to see the end product. But......
No #spartaninatub
Also on a quick note
Whereisdanielle lives in Australia
And for us who live down under it's winter right now. Hard enough for me to do fibreglassing were i'am can't imagine how hard it would be to paint with the weather on that side of Australia
Tub shots when its finished I promise! And yeah acrylic paints HATE the cold, unlike me who just hates painting in the cold.
Yep! Entire build is EVA, including the helmet which you'll see shortly.
Nah all good, thats all public information ahhahahaha, I'd be worried if you had photos of me suited up in my bathtub not taken by me in the mirror....
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Its been a minute holy wow, I've returned with many an update. PREPARE this is gonna be multipost.
So helmet construction:
Started with the top from regular 11mm foam
Then built the jaw round to the ears, the round sections at the ears are 5mm, the rest is standard 11mm
I then joined them together by adding the visor seal and nose pieces from 5mm; which left the back open still.
From there I did the back bit from 5mm and took a bunch of size test photos.
But wait theres more still, After carving in the detail lines,I moved onto the attachments, starting with the little visor peak thing.
Which was 5mm foam.
Last was the UA attachment on top from 11mm, So heres a bunch of photos of the finished helmet build.
So helmet construction:
Started with the top from regular 11mm foam
Then built the jaw round to the ears, the round sections at the ears are 5mm, the rest is standard 11mm
I then joined them together by adding the visor seal and nose pieces from 5mm; which left the back open still.
From there I did the back bit from 5mm and took a bunch of size test photos.
But wait theres more still, After carving in the detail lines,I moved onto the attachments, starting with the little visor peak thing.
Which was 5mm foam.
Last was the UA attachment on top from 11mm, So heres a bunch of photos of the finished helmet build.
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I got really carried away doing and forgot to update so theres still more for me to fill you in on.
First up, undersuit stuff:
Purchased some upholstery foam and made me a flexible undersuit arm seal thing?
Plastidip for colour: 
Started painting, everything was gap sealed with kwik seal and left for 24 hours before being painted with two coats of an almost EVA foam colour, this is how i seal my foam.
From there two coats of colour and weathering, this is the progress as of right now:
And I did the UA thingo
Waiting on these to dry so I can do the red, while I type this:
First up, undersuit stuff:
Purchased some upholstery foam and made me a flexible undersuit arm seal thing?
Plastidip for colour: Started painting, everything was gap sealed with kwik seal and left for 24 hours before being painted with two coats of an almost EVA foam colour, this is how i seal my foam.
From there two coats of colour and weathering, this is the progress as of right now:
And I did the UA thingo
Waiting on these to dry so I can do the red, while I type this:
Dirtdives2424
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SI3RRA 117
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Yes the helmet came out awesome!!! But all around your foam work is phenomenal can't wait to see more.
SI3RRA 117
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Yes the helmet came out awesome!!! But all around your foam work is phenomenal can't wait to see more.
Spartan55
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Looks great and so close to being finished
Yeah I'm not that weird also I wouldn't step foot in nsw at the moment to much blue not enough marron (i just realised no one probably got that joke)
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Or because we thrashed you guys first game
Thanks everyone, still working on the paint job, and its still raining so yay
Spartan55
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Hey we played bad and you played good nothing to it.... but remember who won 8 in a rowOr because we thrashed you guys first game
Thanks everyone, still working on the paint job, and its still raining so yay
but let's get off this topic before we fill the hole thread with arguments
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Hey we played bad and you played good nothing to it.... but remember who won 8 in a row
Funny thing is I dont even follow sport outside of womens soccer hahahahahaha
Spartan55
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Oww and hear I thought I found some to talk about rugby with lol i go ask towlbisket
Schankerz
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I'm just completely blown away by that helmet, the level of accuracy compared to the file is unreal, I'm seriously impressed. The reason I'm drooling over it the way that I am is because I'm building the same one very soon, I have the same file you appear to have and had my pal vivalablake89 unfold it for me. So I was wondering if you could maybe....tell me all your secrets and help me reach your level of helmety goodness?
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