Another Daft Punk build from me... Thomas again!!!

I have never been 100% happy with my last build and I have gotten away from pepping helmets and into cutting up plastic into shapes and gluing that together and covering it with bondo... doesn't sound much different... well, here it is.

I started with the old master sculpt of Thomas I made from a pep a few years ago and chopped the dome off, took an inch or two out and glued it back together and put fiberglass on the inside for structure.

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I made a visor frame with some .060 black ABS that I had laying around (this structure was inspired by Volpin)

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I skinned it with more ABS, cut a slit into the dome and inserted the visor frame.

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To build the top of the visor, I cut another slit into the dome over the visor frame and added another piece of ABS to create the top lip of the visor (another Volpin thing). I took a tip from the build that FireWire did and I added pieces of ABS to save on bondo and add the slope.

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The corners of the visor were built up with Apoxie sculpt and sanded into shape.

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The bottom of the face was built up with more ABS and the mouth area got some bondo on it to make it a bit round.

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under the visor area I did another Firewire and filled it with bondo again.

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I then chopped the excess ABs from the temple area and added more... ABS!!! I also did the same for behind the jaw and under the cheeks and chin.

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I then decided that the forehead area was too sloped... MORE BONDO!!!!!

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Here's where he's at now... just some primer, I am going to get the ear recesses in tomorrow and clean up the rest, I like this thing so much better now!!! (4 days of work at this point)

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