I absolutely love mine. He's great to work with too.
I can see why! I agree; he's been great communicating with me so far. I'm glad I could support him and his work.
Bookmarked for looking at the progress, looking forwards! congrats on your bucket. ^^
Thank you! Tis my first bucket, so hopefully my mistakes aren't too disasterous!
Looks like a great cast.
It's an excellent cast! It's very clean, doesn't need much work in that regard, and it looks really darn accurate. I'm mostly excited about it being cold cast in aluminum; just sanding it a little brings out the metal shine underneath. I wasn't going to weather my kit very much, but with a helmet like this, that aspect of the design concept might be changing a bit.
So here's a shot of the helmet with the visor and bottom excess removed (I kept the tab there because I'm not certain how long it'll be before the visor is installed), and some bondo applied to the cast seam (and some places I chipped while removing the visor cutout).
And the inside:
I was actually gonna try smoothing out the inside a bit and roughing it up; I was thinking about primering the inside as well as the outside, just for asthetic reasons. The edges all need to be prettied up too. All I've done so far is cut off/out excess, so all those edges need sanding. And obviously the bondo. I never thought I would ever sand so much in my life...
I'm taking my helmet over to Phoenix's place on Monday to help with the "how to make it sit on my head right" problem, but I'm hoping to have the rest of the prep work done by then. That's why there's a lack of obligatory Mando selfie so far. I might take one tomorrow, for fun.
