bmx potty + filler = helmet?

pennywise said:
Is there "fiberglass" reinforcement?[

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Yes, i've used three Gel coat layers of alu. resin, backed with two fibre glass tissue layers. this provides a good solid coat on the outside,with a rigid, lightweight and smooth internal surface....
 
terminal fettler said:
pennywise said:
Is there "fiberglass" reinforcement?[

/quote]

Yes, i've used three Gel coat layers of alu. resin, backed with two fibre glass tissue layers. this provides a good solid coat on the outside,with a rigid, lightweight and smooth internal surface....
WOW! That is very impressive!:love Nice job!(y)
 
OK. Heres the ESB and ROTJ versions with hardware attached. I've got the whole bank holiday weekend to get these painted, wish me luck!

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Dayum!

That's one sweeeeet bucket :love

I am soooo inspired to try one for meself... Picked up a cheap $5 motorcycle helmet at the flea market today, only to have it torn apart for the shell 20 minutes after I got it home... :lol:

Can't wait to see the finished product!!! Kudos on a great job thus far :cheers
 
I managed to start the ESB colour scheme. I went straight on with art masking fluid on the left cheek, painting out all the silver. Then air brushed on my base grey. Peeled it all off, then masked off the lower cheek, then painted out silver and grey areas. I then air brushed on the green. I repeated this for the upper cheek. Although some of the details are slightly out, its a quick way of working and you can pick out some of the silver scratches with fine grey outlines; these would take hours to paint topicly. This works fine with a couple of colours but im not looking forward to attempting the back!!

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i was gonna paint my next helmet this same way and work layer by layer, masking as needed. this helmet would be perfect for that since you are starting with a silver helemet.
since you can mask for the chips, then apply the scratches to the final paintjob (w/o worrying about scratching through the silver) I think the quality of paintjob with this layering technique will be second to none. In easier terms the topical painting should be minimal.

edited for crappy spelling :lol:
 
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I've just painted the mandibles and brow using the same layering technique as the cheek. Starting with the grey, then purple and red. Masking the silver first, then spraying grey, i peeled off the liquid mask then painted it back on covering silver and grey areas, then air brushed purple. Leaving the silver and grey mask on, i liquid masked the purple areas, then sprayed the red. This technique gives details i could never achieve with a brush and also a slight releif to the paint which adds to the chipped look.....and no brush marks....

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Ah, the paints! Well, they're Humbrol enamels. I'm trying to use stock colours, the only one i've had to custom mix so far is the purple, i love these paints, they're very.....errr, hard wearing...
 
terminal fettler said:
Ah, the paints! Well, they're Humbrol enamels. I'm trying to use stock colours, the only one i've had to custom mix so far is the purple, i love these paints, they're very.....errr, hard wearing...
AAAh nice.:)

Interested to see how you plan to add additional weathering....I mean at what stage you plan to do this?......but so far so WOW...(y)
 
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