Mandalorian Death Watch helmet WIP

David,

That looks like a fantastic template! I can`t wait to see it after the fiberglassing.

And I`m curious as well to see how you will achieve the "wings" on the top of the helmet.

Keep up the progress pics.
 
I'm officialy jealous! I love it bro, keep up the excellent work, I'm looking foreward to your progress. ;)
 
Wow David, you're like some building mad-man, fool! I pitty the foo' that doesn't eat my cereal or doesn't think this is a kick-butt project! :cheers(y)
 
I'm really inspired by this, and might actually try out my skills on cardboards for one or two parts of my body armour. But that raises a question, is it possible to make moulds from cardboards? Or would it need to be made in fibreglass first?

Thanks.
 
Sorry to necropost, but I thought it'd be best just to keep this thread updated.

Over the past few days, I fiberglassed the helmet's exterior. I still need to sand down all the rough edges and give it a once-over with my power sander, but that will come in the next few days. I'm currently out of school for my Christmas vacation, so I hope to get some notable work done on this helmet by the time I head back to classes. By the way, the plan is still to do casts of this helmet, and depending on what kind of money I get for Christmas, I may get to mold it up sooner than expected, but I'm not going to rush into that by any means. It'll be my first full-helmet, two-part mold, so I want to do it right.

Super commandos beware. The Death Watch are coming! ;)

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Just wanted to show off one last group of progress photos before the Bondo stage. NOW I'm actually ready for Bondo. I sanded the entire helmet off, grinding down all of the bumps and rough spots, and roughing up all the smooth spots to make a nice surface for the Bondo to adhere to. Tomorrow morning I should be able to begin the Bondo stage. :)

Here's a photo of how this helmet fits on a 5'8" 190lbs body. I was really worried that this helmet would be too big for my body type, but the nature of the helmet is misleading. The actual core helmet is a nice fit, it just has chunky parts sticking off of it, creating the illusion of being bigger than needed. But it actually looks really good for my body type, so I'm very happy with how it's turning out.

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Now this back part I'm going to do up like a standard Super Commando helmet. That raised box on the back will have a recessed "keyhole" part that's on Boba's helmet, although of a slightly different design.

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I got about 5 hours of work in on the helmet today. By the end of the day, the helmet has been covered in Bondo. I'm gonna let it sit over night and fully cure and get rock hard, and tomorrow I'm gonna start sanding away. It's still going to need a lot more Bondo work, but this is just the first Bondo stage.

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I needed to build up this ridge some more, so I used some plastic tubes to fill up space while I Bondoed around them.

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I also started the horns today. They're mostly done, actually. I just have to smooth them out with some wood filler and prime them.

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