Jokerjack350
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Over the past 3-4 months I have been working on Civil Protection (Metro cops) costumes from half life 2. I already made three helmets out of car filler and .... well they were alright for my first attempt at something like this. [/SIZE]
I used a pep file I found a while back and filled a thick wall with car filler and fibreglass mixed together around the inside of the helmet. And started the ruthless task of sanding -.-, this did take most of the time up.
I also had 3 the Civil Protections outer jackets to make. For this I had to alter a sewing pattern for a vest.
After that more sanding and filling.
And then using a higher grit of sand paper. And now ready for casting
Then I moved onto the casting side of things as myself, twin brother and my friend are going as three Combine Civil Protection Officers. So I did my research and watched a lot of youtube videos and found what I need to do and where to get the stuff.
I started off by getting the silicone and Applying a thin layer to the whole helmet (on my mums hob, she wasn't pleased :eek)
After that I added some thickener to the mixture and pretty much pasted that all over, adding in 2 keys on each side, and then repeated this again putting in more keys on (I actually ran out of thickener so I had to wait a couple of days :confused
After ALLL that, work had to be started on the mold shell. So I used a layer or two of plaster bandages over the silicone mold.
I applied car filler and fibreglass mixture to the bandages to strengthen the shell.
Then it all got pulled apart and I was very pleased with the detail left by the silicone.
So then My Older brother and I poured in the polyurethane casting resin and got our first pulled out
.
It's a little tight in places but other then that I’m very pleased.
Next trimming and sanding, painting, looking badass (oh and letting my wallet recover)
I used a pep file I found a while back and filled a thick wall with car filler and fibreglass mixed together around the inside of the helmet. And started the ruthless task of sanding -.-, this did take most of the time up.
I also had 3 the Civil Protections outer jackets to make. For this I had to alter a sewing pattern for a vest.
After that more sanding and filling.
And then using a higher grit of sand paper. And now ready for casting
Then I moved onto the casting side of things as myself, twin brother and my friend are going as three Combine Civil Protection Officers. So I did my research and watched a lot of youtube videos and found what I need to do and where to get the stuff.
I started off by getting the silicone and Applying a thin layer to the whole helmet (on my mums hob, she wasn't pleased :eek)
After that I added some thickener to the mixture and pretty much pasted that all over, adding in 2 keys on each side, and then repeated this again putting in more keys on (I actually ran out of thickener so I had to wait a couple of days :confused
After ALLL that, work had to be started on the mold shell. So I used a layer or two of plaster bandages over the silicone mold.
I applied car filler and fibreglass mixture to the bandages to strengthen the shell.
Then it all got pulled apart and I was very pleased with the detail left by the silicone.
So then My Older brother and I poured in the polyurethane casting resin and got our first pulled out
.It's a little tight in places but other then that I’m very pleased.
Next trimming and sanding, painting, looking badass
(oh and letting my wallet recover)
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