MaceRider
New Member
So this is the second Pepakura headgear I've ever made, but the first one I'm actually going to finish. A guy I know asked me to make him a mask for his Juggernaut cosplay, and I, being the too-nice-person I am, agreed to help him.
I searched far and wide for a decent Pep file and eventually found one on some Spanish-language site (I believe). Printed out the 20-odd sheets of A4 cardstock I needed for the project, and got to cutting.
Eventually I cut everything out and started gluing. That was when I actually started taking photos of the progress :rolleyes
Baby steps...

A little more progress made

Gluing done!

Started epoxying

More epoxying

The mask along with my first-ever Pepakura project and an unfinished Eiserne Drossel 2P prop from Soul Calibur 5

And some final epoxying

That's pretty much where I'm at right now. I've been sanding the past couple days, trying to get rid of as many high spots and runs in the epoxy as I can before I start applying filler and primer. The one question I've got regarding that stuff is, my polyester filler (what I could find locally here in Russia) says that it can be applied to 2-part acrylic primer and cured paint/lacquer surfaces, but not to 1-piece acrylic primer or nitrocellulose surfaces. Spray can primer is, as far as I know, 1-part acrylic. Is there a specific reason why you're not supposed to apply poly filler to rattle-can primer? Do they react to each other and lose adhesion?
Eventually I hope to have this mask finished well enough to make a silicone plug with it, build a rotocasting rig and try my hand at casting some masks from Smoothcast or something of that nature.
I searched far and wide for a decent Pep file and eventually found one on some Spanish-language site (I believe). Printed out the 20-odd sheets of A4 cardstock I needed for the project, and got to cutting.
Eventually I cut everything out and started gluing. That was when I actually started taking photos of the progress :rolleyes
Baby steps...

A little more progress made

Gluing done!

Started epoxying

More epoxying

The mask along with my first-ever Pepakura project and an unfinished Eiserne Drossel 2P prop from Soul Calibur 5

And some final epoxying

That's pretty much where I'm at right now. I've been sanding the past couple days, trying to get rid of as many high spots and runs in the epoxy as I can before I start applying filler and primer. The one question I've got regarding that stuff is, my polyester filler (what I could find locally here in Russia) says that it can be applied to 2-part acrylic primer and cured paint/lacquer surfaces, but not to 1-piece acrylic primer or nitrocellulose surfaces. Spray can primer is, as far as I know, 1-part acrylic. Is there a specific reason why you're not supposed to apply poly filler to rattle-can primer? Do they react to each other and lose adhesion?
Eventually I hope to have this mask finished well enough to make a silicone plug with it, build a rotocasting rig and try my hand at casting some masks from Smoothcast or something of that nature.