Hopefully I’m not taking over this thread but I wanted to show off my clone build so far. At the moment money is a bit tight so instead of using foam I chose cardboard to use with the templates. I used rjrproductions clone helmet template, ryzers armor template, and andrewdfts dc-15 template. I’ve been using gorilla hot glue which holds really well and doesn’t leave a lot of room for mistakes. I also used spackle to seal gaps although I’d prefer something that doesn’t have vocs.
I first started with the helmet and although I had a template there was a lot of improvising to make the helmet wearable for me and at times I had to rip it apart and glue it together differently.I don’t remember the order I went about putting it together but that’s why I took pictures throughout.
I had to add a extra couple of inches to the headband area to widen the helmet since it was too tight.
in this picture was trying to find the perfect height for the dome. I ended up cutting it off and making a shorter piece and got what I was looking for. I also had trouble figuring out a way to connect the side and back tubes without too much effort.
only managed to fix the tubes on this side the other is a bit flat.
here’s the back it might look a bit off cause like I said earlier I had to resize the helmet to fit me.
spackled and sanded
painted but had to clean it off because of runs and smears.
here’s the final product, only thing I would change would be the mouth since it’s a bit too small but I don’t have xacto knives. Spackle is cracking too but it’s not too bad so I left it like this.