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ywingfighter (Frank)
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Update: Silicon molds are ready and working on the Visor bucket.
Hope can made the first test pull next month.
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Blue Banshee Leader (Alex Buirch)
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 7:13 am Post subject:
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Nice job!
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Dr. Morbius (Ingo Kaiser)
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 9:57 am Post subject:
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TOP! Frank das wird wieder hammer, sag Bescheid wenn man bestellen kann :-P
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 3:21 pm Post subject:
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| Def get me on the list. My helmet is not going so well... |
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ywingfighter (Frank)
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 1:27 pm Post subject:
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Here is the first testpull after bondo and prime.
I am happy with it but will rework the molds a little bit and looking for a stronger Vacpump.
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Bespin Phillips (Bren Phillips)
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 4:34 pm Post subject:
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| there's a serious amount of love gone into that build, top work. the chin especially is bang on the money. when you say pulls, are you just doing vac formed helmets? |
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ywingfighter (Frank)
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:50 pm Post subject:
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| Thank you! Yes its vacformed with 2mm styrene. |
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rtdubz (Trey Walker)
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:49 pm Post subject:
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| I see you made big silicone molds as well, will you be doing this in resin or did you only use it for the vacuum form bucks |
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Bespin Phillips (Bren Phillips)
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:29 pm Post subject:
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| rtdubz wrote: | | I see you made big silicone molds as well, will you be doing this in resin or did you only use it for the vacuum form bucks |
That's what I was thinking. it's a lovely mold, be perfect for resin, and less work when there's no lining up to be done with 2 halves of a bucket. |
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Blue Banshee Leader (Alex Buirch)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:57 am Post subject:
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That really is looking good!
But I agree, resin might be a good option for this. Slush cast it. Pour in some rotocasting resin, rotate it around, and bada big bada boom, you've got yourself a helmet. 
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Bespin Phillips (Bren Phillips)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 8:58 am Post subject:
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| Blue Banshee Leader wrote: | That really is looking good!
But I agree, resin might be a good option for this. Slush cast it. Pour in some rotocasting resin, rotate it around, and bada big bada boom, you've got yourself a helmet. |
I would tend to stay away from vac formed pieces in future. I don't like having to use glue and tabs to hold it together, it added a lot of weight to mine, and the bondo it took to cover the seam was ridiculous. If i dropped mine, it could split in half, and that's the paint job ruined. I would be deifinitely interested in a purple visor though. not happy with mine in the slightest: wrong shape, wrong colour. |
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ywingfighter (Frank)
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 4:28 pm Post subject:
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I am not sure at this time to made fiberglas or resin helmets. The real helmets are vacformed so I want to make mine as original as possible.
With corect glue and Bondo its no problem. The original visor is Amber and not purple or pink.This is an ilusion and comes from the lighting in the movie.
I had good shots of original ones who you can see that they are amber.
Here a few shots of my painted helmet.
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Bespin Phillips (Bren Phillips)
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 9:52 am Post subject:
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| lovely job. I get the reason you wanna stay close to the source material. plus the advantage of the vac formed helmet being adaptable to fit all size heads. let me know if you need any help with the greeblies, I had to make most of mine from scratch. |
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Blue Banshee Leader (Alex Buirch)
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 8:49 am Post subject:
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That's definitely looking nice!
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PArmstr (Patricia Armstrong-Krauss)
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 3:12 pm Post subject:
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I like your paint job.
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