When you wear your helmet with the torso, can you turn your head from left to right without touching the torso (especially the thrusters) ?
Probably, I haven't actually worn the helmet yet. Its going to be an EVA/ fiberglass hibrid. Which means I need to chop the back section out before I can fit it.
PIC HEAVY UPDATE:
So I made a fair bit of progress today. I managed to finish fibreglassing my helmet, I weathered the majority of my suit and finally I made a budget visor that turned out pretty well.
First things first. Visor...
A quick walk through of my process.
1.I bought a motorbike visor insert. Basically its a super thin piece of polycarb (I think) with a gold chrome tint.
This stuff is super robust, easy to cut with scissors and cheap. It cost me $20AU in total.
Link Here
2.With masking tape I taped up the visor on my resined helmet and sketched the pat tern of the visor
3.I then peeled of the tape and took a picture of it next to a ruler so I could scale it to size on the compy
4.Stencil time. I redrew the pattern in illustrator and cut it in vinyl on one of the vinyl cutters at work and put it aside.
5.I then took the visor and applied a piece of contravison onto it. . Contravision is that perforated one way film that is used on a lot of buses
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6.A quick dusting of black spray paint and vola! visor texture
7.Once dry. I applied the vinyl stencil to the visor.
8.I then spray the visor again with a thicker coat. Once dry I removed the stencil.
9. A quick snip snip with the scissors and its ready to go. Not bad for $20.
Since the visor inserts come in packs of 2 I have put together another whole kit to make another Fred visor.
Thats the visor, contravision and vinyl stencil.
If only there was someone else making Fred who could take it off me *cough*
Dirtdives *cough*
And now what your actually here to see.
Below are some images of today's weathering efforts.
I still have hands to make at some point, but I'll soon be moving onto the helmet and undersuit. Weeow!
