Hi everyone, found this forum from a search in google for some help, I've wanted to build a mk3 helmet for some time now but had no idea how to get started. After a while I came across a really cheap fiberglass helmet on ebay so though why not, being fiberglass I didn't expect great quality and I was right
When it arrived it looked ok but it was littered with cracks, splits, low spots and a little misshaped, I am car spray painter to trade but I also do alot of bodywork so I though I'd give it a god and see how far I can go with it, I'm going to try get it to as near perfect as possible as its just going to be kept as a sort of show piece, I don't have any pictures of how bad it was to start with but here is a couple of the in progress pics
there was a hell of alot more work after that but I never got any pictures,
I took it into work to use the booth and give it its first couple coats of primer to see how it looks and how the new lines lined up
some lines still need tidying up and a few more low spots showed up that I missed buts its 100x better than how I got it
I have sourced a colour for the red that I think is pretty close to the original but i'm not 100% sure if the red is a satin finish or if its a gloss finish, does anyone else know? and also I'm quite stuck on what gold to use, I have a few golds that look really close to a real gold but theyre not like the one I have see in the film so if anyone has any advice on what gold is best that would be great
thanks
Jordan
When it arrived it looked ok but it was littered with cracks, splits, low spots and a little misshaped, I am car spray painter to trade but I also do alot of bodywork so I though I'd give it a god and see how far I can go with it, I'm going to try get it to as near perfect as possible as its just going to be kept as a sort of show piece, I don't have any pictures of how bad it was to start with but here is a couple of the in progress pics
there was a hell of alot more work after that but I never got any pictures,
I took it into work to use the booth and give it its first couple coats of primer to see how it looks and how the new lines lined up
some lines still need tidying up and a few more low spots showed up that I missed buts its 100x better than how I got it
I have sourced a colour for the red that I think is pretty close to the original but i'm not 100% sure if the red is a satin finish or if its a gloss finish, does anyone else know? and also I'm quite stuck on what gold to use, I have a few golds that look really close to a real gold but theyre not like the one I have see in the film so if anyone has any advice on what gold is best that would be great
thanks
Jordan
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