Unfortunately I forgot about the post and I feel I did not take great photos along the way. I am still getting use to thread aspect of the hobby. Where I had left off was assembly of the helmet and having to fill in gaps and smoothing out the rough layer lines in certain spots and where I had glued the sliced helmet pieces together.
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I had used bondo filler spot putty with thing layers with multiple coats to fill in any of these gaps. Between each coat drying (with the aid of an air blow gun and heat gun) I would sand and then filler primer spray. I would appreciate any feedback but I thought I had seen somewhere along many cosplay youtube videos that a heat gun between coats of spray paints will help it dry and cure faster.
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After patching the seam lines with the spot putty I had painted the helmet black thinking I would be set and it would be "good enough"... I was not pleased as you can see in the last few photos that you could clearly see (especially with light reflecting off the surface) the spot putty had an edge to it and I dont think I sanded enough. After this small disappointment I had decided to sand more extensively and the difference this time would be that I would try wet sanding and also go to a higher grit. Before this moment I had never wet sanded before, and on a print I had not used more than 220 grit sandpaper. I started at 220 and went up to 400 from there, then to 1000. All of this was done with wet sanding and after a few moments I felt as though the sandpaper was gumming up, especially when sanding any spot with the spot putty. To help combat this new issue I would wipe the helmet down more frequently with a rag to remove any excess material and also dry it up and take a look to see how the helmet looked. I repeated this process until I was pleased with the smoothness and lines, I have never been shooting for "the perfect helmet" with this being my first helmet. I am using all of the methods and ideas as tests and treating them all as attempts, if something works out then I note mentally what I did to achieve that effect and if it doesn't work out then I try to revert the helmet back to what it was before the previous attempt and try another route.
I'll update again soon as it is late. At this moment in time the helmet has already been finished, the contest over and results in. I just will be continuing the thread to finish up in parts the work done to the helmet.
