Howdy!
So I definitely did not meet my goal to finish my helmet by mid-September. Mostly because I live next to a nature preserve and was getting eaten alive by mosquitos every time I spent more than like 3 seconds outside, but also because this dome has been a huge pain in the *ss to get smooth.
It's hard to see, but the right side on the back was way lopsided

I finally caved and bought a new can of Bondo (the old one was over 4 years old), and y'all. I thought I was just bad at applying bondo but apparently it's supposed to actually be runny, not a gummy paste that cures in minutes regardless of how little activator you use. Wow, who knew?

Anyways, once I got that I made some major progress the past few days, and I think the dome is actually pretty much done!
After three coats of new Bondo:

I also cut out the vents today, which was a... fiasco, and I'm not thrilled with them but hopefully I can get my hands on a set of jewelers files and clean up the corners.

In other news, I got my paint!!! Brick is showing up more pink in this image than it looks in natural light, and I'm really digging the way Rust looks. My only worry is that Rust won't play nice layered with the other colors since it's from the Black line, not the Gold acrylic line. I'm gonna do another test piece tonight to see if they'll layer without reacting, but if not I'll order the color that looked very similar to Rust from the Gold line.
Left to right: Metallic Titanium, Shock Brown Dark, Rust, Brick

I've attached the front of the flightsuit to the back and added the collar, but still haven't gotten around to doing the sleeves. Going to try and get the topstitching done this weekend. I don't have any pics at the moment but I'll update tomorrow or Saturday with photos.
Thanks for reading!
