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OK, I was just going to post these pics, but I thought I would keep them all in my old thread.  And the thread is quit long, so I adding them to the top of the thread.

 

This is my pleasure to present to you the final product - painted by a very awesome artist from the TDH, Rogue Studios.  See the attached area for some pics of this bad boy.

 

I am really happy how well it turned it.  Lee did one awesome paint job on it.  The attention to detail is superb for such a small bucket.  The colors (which may seem a little odd in the pics because of the flash) look dead on.  I cannot say how glad I am to have this for my son.

 

One thing makes me mad though...While I was working on this bucket and getting it ready for priming, I left it in my shop for 2 days.  Well, the heat got to it, and you can see in the front shot that visor area is a little warped.  I tried to fix this before I sent it to Lee, but it seems that it is still very warped.  I hope that I can get this fixed without it damaging Lee's awesome paint job.

 

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can complete the rest of Will's suit before Halloween.

 

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OK, I have been wanting to start on my son's bucket for awhile now, and I actually had some time off during Thanksgiving to start it. No offense to JD, I would've loved to have one of his buckets, but I just hate to spend money on something my son may or may not wear.

 

On to the nitty-gritty... The base I am using is an old army dress-up helmet my son had rarely ever worn. I am using styrene and sintra to mod it. I didn't get a pic of it before hand, but all I did was cut the flare off of the front of the helmet.

 

Next, I took cardstock and created/fit patterns to get the size of the pieces needed. Then I cut them out of some thin styrene I had. I also heated a spot up on the dome to create the dent. This is what it looked like:

 

The edging around the the visor and the ears will be sintra. I took my original template and used it to create a template for the edging. I then cut, heated, and shaped the pieces out of the sintra it to fit around the styrene:

 

I am now in the process of gluing the sintra to the styrene. It should look something like this when it is done:


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