Nevu's Custom Mando (Lots of Pics)

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NovallTalon

Well-Known Hunter

• Jul 14, 2009

• #61

Glass it meaning fiberglass.

Honestly, there is no need to fiberglass your helmet at this point. Your focus should be on making it as smooth as possible. Fiberglassing is really only worth doing if you are going to layer the fiberglass with resin. If you used bondo glass, then honestly you've used the best thing you can outside of layered fiberglass/resin.

 

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Nevu440

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• Jul 14, 2009

• #62

I only used regular bondo. Not bondo glass. I wanted to use it but I just wasnt familiar with it enough. I've been trying to sand it down to make it as smooth as I can but life keeps gettin in the way right now. I hope to get outside today to get some work on it.
The back of the helmet is really weak though. So would it make sense to glass the back just to add that strength to it? Thanks for the input.

 

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NovallTalon

Well-Known Hunter

• Jul 14, 2009

• #63

Yes, you can glass the back to add support. That should give you the strength your lookin for.

 

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Nevu440

Guest

• Jul 14, 2009

• #64

Sounds good to me. (lol if ur wondering y I respond back so fast, its because I have been on here for like 3 hours? Waiting for my parents to take me to buy for spackeling..... Im afraid to get on Call of Duty because I might never get off! )

 

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Aden Kyramud

Active Hunter

• Jul 14, 2009

• #65

Something I like to do is to fiberglass (resin and mat) the inside of the helmet, then bondo glass the outside and sand that smooth. It makes it REALLY strong and leaves it with a good smooth exterior for painting &c.

 

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adonian

Active Hunter

• Jul 15, 2009

• #66

Nevu440 said:

Sounds good to me. (lol if ur wondering y I respond back so fast, its because I have been on here for like 3 hours? Waiting for my parents to take me to buy for spackeling..... Im afraid to get on Call of Duty because I might never get off! )

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sometimes we sit here waiting to see responses nothing wrong with that...
hmmmm call of duty or bucket, that is a hard choice
You can just use resin and fiberglass mat on the inside for strength, its cheap enough, you can get a kit for like $10.00 which is enough for the inside, just make sure you get the glass smooth enough that when you sand it, you wont have large strands sticking out inside your bucket :rolleyes

 

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Nevu440

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• Jul 21, 2009

• #67

Ok i've hidden the call of duty CD!!! Sadly I know where it is, I kinda hoped I would forget where it is but I didnt and I found it yesterday.... Whoops! Though I found that if I play COD to long my skills on my Republic Commando game get ruined and I do a lot more there than on COD so I might just stop COD for a while..
Anyways.... UPDATES!! HORAY!
I was able to finish painting and weather my sisters set of armor. I went a little overboard with the weathering.... It looks a bit like someone stuck it in the blender, which I didnt but would have been and interesting sight.. Lol. I also got a bit spray paint happy with my helmet. I just HAD to see what it would look like with a coat of blue. Sadly the paint brought out a lot of my mistakes so I will have to sand that down a lot more and I still have yet to bondo the back of the helmet.
Pictures by the end of the day or sooner!

 

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adonian

Active Hunter

• Jul 21, 2009

• #68

Nevu440 said:

Sadly the paint brought out a lot of my mistakes ....
Pictures by the end of the day or sooner!

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Yeah, paint has a way of doing that :rolleyes, but that's a good way of finding mistakes and imperfections, dont let it get ya down.

My bucket is on hold until the weather cools off... I work on it in my garage and it just gets too hot to do any work.

 

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Nevu440

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• Jul 21, 2009

• #69

adonian said:

My bucket is on hold until the weather cools off... I work on it in my garage and it just gets too hot to do any work.

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I tried that a few weeks ago. I really wanted to get it done so I found a big fan and had it blowing on me to cool me down. But it didnt help. When I was working on it yesterday I would paint it and then run inside really quickly. Just so the heat wouldn't get to hot for me. But its not the heat that bothers me, im used to being in 98F weather outside, its just the humidity that makes it unbearable. It turns into wet heat, ugh.
I might, just might go out a try to do a little bit of painting before it gets to hot.

 

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NovallTalon

Well-Known Hunter

• Jul 21, 2009

• #70

Be careful if your painting down in Southeast during the summer. The humidity will really kill the curing ability of the paint. In a dry heat it's not so bad, but our humid summers are the worst for painting outside.

If you have a basement, I would highly suggest painting where you can find good ventilation. Thats pretty much what I have to do if I paint in the summer, because it stays a constant 68-70 with low humidity.

 

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Aden Kyramud

Active Hunter

• Jul 21, 2009

• #71

Hahaha!!! to hot?!?! I'm here in 120 degree weather working in my garage!!!

 

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Nevu440

Guest

• Jul 21, 2009

• #72

Lol, owch A'den. Though you are in desert land so you would think the temperatures would be really hot there. Thanks for the advice on painting in the summer Novall. I dont have a basement. I dont think anyone in florida has a basement =P
I might head over to home depot later this week and buy some wood for my custome Verpine sniper rifle. Anyone know how to cut wood thats 3/4 inches thick and still get nice curves??

 

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Aden Kyramud

Active Hunter

• Jul 21, 2009

• #73

band saw is the way to go there. Then a nice drill press and perhaps a belt sander...along with a lathe for doing the barrel...

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I wish...

Try a jig saw. Those work pretty well as long as you dont take to sharp of turns.

 

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Nevu440

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• Jul 21, 2009

• #74

Im sure I've got a jig saw buried somewhere in my garage. A lot of stuff is buried in my garage. I'll probably find the car if I look hard enough.lol:

 

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Aden Kyramud

Active Hunter

• Jul 21, 2009

• #75

I know the feeling!!! I am going through cleaning mine for an armour party right now, and I keep having these "HEY! THAT'S were that went" moments.

 

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adonian

Active Hunter

• Jul 21, 2009

• #76

I have the "Bermuda garage", last week I found a fully functional computer in there, I think it was one of those Pentium D's, D for Dinosaur

 

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Aden Kyramud

Active Hunter

• Jul 21, 2009

• #77

lol: D for "deathly slowwwwww!"

 

bh7603

Active Hunter

• Jul 22, 2009

• #78

NovallTalon said:

Be careful if your painting down in Southeast during the summer. The humidity will really kill the curing ability of the paint. In a dry heat it's not so bad, but our humid summers are the worst for painting outside.

If you have a basement, I would highly suggest painting where you can find good ventilation. Thats pretty much what I have to do if I paint in the summer, because it stays a constant 68-70 with low humidity.

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yeah, our paint dries in about 3 minutes or less

 

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Aden Kyramud

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• Jul 22, 2009

• #79

bh-7603 said:

yeah, our paint dries in about 3 minutes or less

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More likely the "or less" part.

 

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adonian

Active Hunter

• Jul 22, 2009

• #80

I did a little painting in my garage last night, and it dried to the touch in less than a minute, and was able to handle it completely in less than 5 minutes.
Today I'm leaving my garage opened 1/2 way to air cool the house since my electric bill doubled this month (Kid on summer vacation killing me).