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    Jul 3, 2011 - Thor & Ironman (arm construction costume pg.8) #1

    Procrastinating on my Ironman armor (again), I thought I might try my hand at Dung0Beetle's Thor Helmet.

    The first step was to figure out what scale I needed. His height was defaulted at 300mm (A little small for me). I have a 24 inch circumference head which brought my helmet around 475mm or 500mm. I made mine at 500mm and I think it might be slightly too large.

    First off - Great Files, Dung0Beetle!

    However, I had to do some modifications to make it a little more movie accurate.

    If Dung0Beetle is up for some pep changes, I would love to have the new files, so I can minimze the bondo. Hopefully, we can work together to get it right.

    The first 2 pictures are of the pain it takes to "do what you have to" to get something symetrical working with a pep file.




    Next picture is how the original pep file looks like. The back of the helmet is a little to long and not angled down enough. The picture below shows where I made the first cut to change the helmet.


    The next photo shows where the second cut was. I also cut out a little more to rotate the end of back of the helmet to 'hug' the head.


    Next photo is where it's at so far.
    The wings will need to be scaled down do to the smaller helmet. I'll post the size change once I get that far.

    Thank you Dung0Beetle for this great file!
    Last edited by MightyJohn; Aug 26, 2012 at 12:55 AM.
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    Jul 4, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #2

    Looking good so far! cant wait for the final result...PROCRASTINATORS UNITE...tomorrow
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    Jul 4, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #3

    Sweet so far.
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    Jul 5, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #4

    Laranorac said: View Post
    Looking good so far! cant wait for the final result...PROCRASTINATORS UNITE...tomorrow
    Woot! I did get some Ironman stuff done this weekend...While I was waiting for the thor helmet to dry.

    wawben said: View Post
    Sweet so far.
    Thanks. A long way off thought.

    First coat of smoothing. Gonna need 2 or 3 more layers. It's a fuzzy picture, but its just the first coat, anyway.
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    Jul 5, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #5

    Is this file available or did you get it through a commission?
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    Jul 5, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #6

    Bimmer said: View Post
    Is this file available or did you get it through a commission?
    I sent you this file
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    Jul 6, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #7

    STEALTH said: View Post
    I sent you this file
    ahh yeah yeah. I wasn't sure if it was the same one or not. This one appears to have more details than i remember. my bad
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    Jul 6, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #8

    Bimmer said: View Post
    ahh yeah yeah. I wasn't sure if it was the same one or not. This one appears to have more details than i remember. my bad
    lol yeah man, the dungbeetle one.
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    Jul 6, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #9

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    lol yeah man, the dungbeetle one.
    Dung0Beetle, yea. I got it off his Website. He's got some skills.
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    Jul 7, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #10

    second layer. A few more and I can start on the details.


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    Jul 7, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #11

    Lookin great man!
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    Jul 10, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #12

    This is gonna be super sweet.
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    Jul 11, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #13

    Thanks, guys!

    3rd layer...
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    Jul 11, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #14

    always nice to see an MJ post i plan on doing this helm soon as well
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    Jul 16, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #15

    Azurial said: View Post
    always nice to see an MJ post i plan on doing this helm soon as well
    Thanks, Azurial.

    I've been working a little more on Ironman, so this is slowing down...but not over.

    layer 3.5 and drawing some detail guidelines


    I didn't like the "peak" of the Helmet, so I changed it

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    Jul 16, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #16

    We are all shape hunting. Who cares how you get there as long as the finish is what works. Looking good.
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    Jul 18, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #17

    Batpirisss said: View Post
    We are all shape hunting. Who cares how you get there as long as the finish is what works. Looking good.
    My thoughts exactly, thank you!

    Started to add details...
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    Jul 18, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #18

    Holy crap. How'd I miss all of this? Gonna be watching the progress and outcome of this for sure! :
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    Jul 18, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #19

    You're on the right track...
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    Jul 18, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #20

    Looking good man. Some nice files
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    Jul 22, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #21

    Thanks for the support, everyone!

    It's been a billion degrees here for the last few days, so I haven't gone outside to sand. Instead I stayed in the nice A/C house and worked on the wings. I finished the base of the wings. They are made out of Sintra. I said I scaled the helmet to 500mm high, well it looks like the wings worked best when the helmet was scaled to 400mm high. I also change the peak of the helmet again. It looks much better.

    I also changed the shape a little as you can see in the next photo. What's not shown is how I modified the upper arc of the wing but it was changed similar to the lower one.





    It even fits...
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    Jul 25, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #22

    Awesome work!

    Could you post a link of where to get the pep files for this? I've searched but to no avail
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    Jul 31, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #23

    kapnkrunch said: View Post
    Awesome work!

    Could you post a link of where to get the pep files for this? I've searched but to no avail
    Thank you. Sorry I was on vacation last week.

    Link to Dungbeetles homepage and Pepakura files:
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    Jul 31, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #24

    Very cool, keep up the good work.
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    Aug 1, 2011 - Re: Thor Helmet #25

    Wow that's looking great. Nice sculpting on the front.
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