My first helmet WIP

This is my very first costume build of any kind. I made my helmet from WOF plans using cardboard, resin, wood and plastic.Not much but I'm pretty proud of it. I am doing the whole costume, and am finishing up the final touches for Halloween.

wow that looks great, good job.

yeah, that looks pretty sweet. is the jetpack in the background card aswell because that looks awesome too!

Yeah, the jetpack main body is cardboard and resin, and the rocket/grappling hook is cardstock and resin. I'm probably going to make another jetpack because I think I could do much better now.

Get some photos posted dude

I can't wait to see your jetpack. Nice work.

still working on the jetpack,I have to paint the thrusters and attach them, and I am currently making the harness to support the rear armor/jetpack while wearing it. I also made my own rocket so I have something on it for halloween, it's not accurate but it'll do for now. I'm also repainting my chest armor using the same weathering technique I used on the helmet and gauntlets. This project has been way more work than I ever would have thought when I started, but I have learned so much. Thanks for all of your comments !

I'm sorry I haven't been on here much, I was going over some of my past posts and realized I never posted proper pictures of my builds, so here I go. I realize my stuff is nowhere near screen accurate, but as my skill progresses I am getting better with that!

First was the base helmet made from WOF templates, which were a huge help ! I got started from finding the Honus instructable and went from there on my own.


Pardon my lack of pics, I lost alot of build pics in a hard drive crash. I coated the helmet inside and out with resin and smoothed out the dome with bondo. I used a floral bucket for the red faceplate, it was thin, smooth, and had a natural curve. The visor was the clear plastic sheet from a poster frame annd coated with the darkest window tint I could get.
after assmbly was done it was time for paint. I started with a basecoat of "chrome".



I then used liquid car wax applied with an art brush between coats of the chrome, red, blue, and green to mask off battle damage so it has a real layered paint look in the scratches and scrapes.


The "ears" were made from wood and the rangfinder from a pep file, and flips up and down as it should. Again, I wish I had more pics of the build but they were lost forever in a hard drive failure