Starting a Beginner's Bucket

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BatFerret

New Hunter

• Mar 25, 2015

• #1

Hi! I've been looking at this forum for a while now, but I'm new to process of making a helmet and not really familiar with any of the real technical terms involved. I just got my first resin cast from ebay and there is a hard white thing inside the gray resin cast. I haven't seen this in any other user's first helmets and was wondering if I am supposed to remove this and if so how I should?
Beyond this, the forum has been a tremendous help on how to make this and I can't wait to start into this process!

 

cbrant

Active Hunter

• Mar 25, 2015

• #2

You probably bought a shoddy recast if it was from ebay. Do you have pictures of what you're talking about?

 

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BatFerret

New Hunter

• Mar 25, 2015

• #3

Here are some pictures of what it looks like from the inside and the outside.

 

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Lud315

New Hunter

• Mar 25, 2015

• #4

Looks to be untrimmed from what I can see.. Could be wrong though

 

cbrant

Active Hunter

• Mar 25, 2015

• #5

Lud315 said:

Looks to be untrimmed from what I can see.. Could be wrong though

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Yeah, if you mean the white stuff it's resting on in the second picture, it's just excess resin. From the look of that ear, you're gonna have a lot of work making that helmet smooth.

 

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Lud315

New Hunter

• Mar 25, 2015

• #6

cbrant said:

Yeah, if you mean the white stuff it's resting on in the second picture, it's just excess resin. From the look of that ear, you're gonna have a lot of work making that helmet smooth.

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Yeah I agree with ya cb. Looking closer that ear is a little ruff. Take your time with it Bat.

 

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Kuma40

New Hunter

• Mar 25, 2015

• #7

I think i know what ebay user that is who sells those. I had purchased one just to see the quality of it. It was very brittle and had a huge crack down the back. The bottom of the helmet looked the same as yours. I sent it back for a refund.

 

MasterEdi

Jr Hunter

• Apr 9, 2015

• #8

Wow!... Hope people aren't paying a lot for these things.