How Do You Make Visors?

[firman]

Hey guys, once more how do you make a visor instead of buying one? Help much appreciated!

 

[Harding29]

i plan on vacuum forming my odst visor

 

[Underdogg13]

It appears you didn't even give search a thought, you don't deserve my knowledge.

 

[LdoSpartN]

I used Coke plastic 3 liter for visor for my nephew's costume last year. cut the bottle open just get a wire hanger and bend it to a semi circle following the inside of the helmet and tape it. Then just go to autozone or other place and tape tint on it. it works sorry dont have a pic of the MC Helmet visor but heres the ODST I Made. enjoy

 

[Spartan 343]

The clear plastic drum that CD's come in works, Soda liter

bottles, or just clear sheets or plastic that are shaped can work also.

 

[LdoSpartN]

Here's another pic of the visor i made looks pretty bad now but it works.

 

[tenfingersofdoom]

My suggestion would be, if you havent already cut out the pepakura visor from your helmet, would be to make a 2 part silicone/plaster mold of it. cast that and use it as a 1/1 scale base to sculpt a new detailed visor. then make a new 2 part mold of it and cast it in lots of clear 2-part resin that doesn't discolor when dried. Trust me it works.

 

[firman]

Thanks alot and I did researching but I thought it will be alot easier doing this. Thanks for the ideas though

 

[HoL Rizzo]

Cheap plastic craftbox i cut and heat gunned to shape.Then sprayed the inside transparent blue, bolted to place.

 

[GiR3892]

nice idea ther HoL

but yeh i would either recommend making a vacu formed one or either the dangerous one of using the heat gun on plexiglass over a plaster mold

 

[Uepari]

Cheap plastic craftbook i cut and heat gunned to shape.Then sprayed the inside transparent blue, bolted to place.

It doesn't seem like that great a method if you're looking for the two-sectioned look of the ODST helmet. A good-sized visor costs about 30 bucks, and just get a dermal tool and you can cut it.

 

[firman]

Cheap plastic craftbox i cut and heat gunned to shape.Then sprayed the inside transparent blue, bolted to place.

where did you get the craftbox?

 

[HoL Rizzo]

I got the box at a michael craftstore here in florida. its just a large clear box with no markings in it. The reason i didn't use the 2 piece visor is because i don't like it. I like the 1 piece look like the concept art odst from halo 3, the more round and flat looking helmet.

 

[ARMYofONE2469]

It appears you didn't even give search a thought, you don't deserve my knowledge.

Dude OMG Ur are the meanest person on 405th, All you do is make fun of people

I thought we were supposed to help each other SHEESH!







Yeah dude what i do is i get a 2 liter soda bottle are print out the page for the visor and use your X-axto Knife to cut the pieces. Make a line with your knife for the folds. be carefull not to cut through the plastic when making fold lines.



Good Luck,

 

[yccars]

Underdogg is right, actually. This thread is silly. It isn't difficult to search or read stickies at all, especially for a mk VI visor, something has been done many times. Even reading a WIP thread will be very informative.