What material is this?

Southern hunter

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OK, I got a bucket here. I know zero about it. Can anyone give me an idea of what kind of material it is made of and if it will hold bondo, how to shape it what to work it with etc?

Thanks.

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Looks to me like a plaster cast, or could be a fiberglass resin of a kind I'm not familiar with, I work with fiberglass and resin all day at work but that's what the pic looks like to me.
 
don't you guys recognize that missing link in the mystery helmet lineage? that's the long forgotten frosting helmet!
 
put a blow dryer on it and if it loosens up it'll help you determine what it is. Atleast it's a start. I really don't think it's paint, it wouldn't be so firmly in place. Latex would wobble like a balloon and oil would crumble.
 
I was gonna say whipped cream :lol:, but that would not be very helpfull. It looks like the type of resin that garden ornaments (lawn gnome and frogs) are made of.
 
That looks to me like a (sloppy) slush cast plastic resin - a lot like the stuff I'm using actually. It will hold bondo, but you have to clean it with dish soap and make sure you scuff it up with sandpaper first. Same goes for painting. Make sure it's good and cleaned off as the stuff has an oily residue.
 
Forgot to mention - the stuff can be cut quite easily with a fine saw (to get rid of the flash), and it sands really quite easily. You should be able to sand down any irregularities - assuming you find any LOL. Another useful tool to have for working with this stuff is a dremel. I also use a mouse sander quite a bit for larger areas of sanding if needed on such a casting. It can be sanded quite smooth with progressively fine sandpaper (wetsand near the end). Once again, be sure it's well cleaned of residue before trying to paint it.
 
Well since its not the inside that really counts. I would have to agree with gypsyboy. It looks to be a slushcasted helmet. A VERY Sloppy one. May I ask to see pictures of the helmet itself?
 
Hey! My first time slushing was nicer than that!! :lol:

Looks to me like the slusher was a rusher. It may have been just a rough job for the sake of having an outside form to work on for mods or something. I know if I had that lid I wouldn't bother with the inside at all. I'd just fix up the outside and take a mold and make my own clean casting - and then I'd use the mold to make other lids I could modify to a few Mando variants. But that's me... I always like to make more work for myself than I would otherwise have had.

GB
 
OK, everyone seems to agree it is a slush cast resin bucket. It's still not the worst thing I've ever seen, but it does need some TLC. :lol:

Here's a few pix of the outside of it as some people have requested.

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