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BossierBob

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Hey everyone, decided to post my progress on this mask I've been working on for a Christmas Present for a friend of mine.
I got the Pep file for this from Black Kaos here on the forums and am very pleased with the file. Just enough detail in it to show me what it should look like, but just easy enough for quick assembly. I assembled the file in just one day.




Once I had the file done I went on to the resinning process per the norm


But when I went to do the inside of the helmet with actual cloth I got a little impatient and decided to rondo and lay cloth all at the same time instead of resinning the inside of the paper which turned problematic later on. (The temperature was causing my curing times to be too long for my patience lol)




After all the resin, was time to start shaping. I started off using a putty scraper for laying the bondo, on the first coat but then switched to just using my hands as I could shape it out better and get in all the edges. I like to add some basic acrylic paint to my batches of bondo, mainly cause looking at pale pink gets boring lol but also to make it easy to tell when I get down to the previous layer.








But this is where my impatience came to bite me in the ass. Because I hadn't resined the inside of the mask I had a bunch of soft spots where the cloth didn't adhere to the cardstock to reinforce it.




But after repairs, it was time for primer. I ran out of standard grey primer/sealer but I had a can of anti rust primer for metal that did the job.


SELFIE!!!! The sizing is pretty average. It fits me and I have been told I have a festivally large cranium lol.


Now was the time for my OCD to kick in. Fixing imperfections and pin holes!!!








But after final sanding and another coat of primer I was on to the fun part: Painting!!!!
I am using just standard enamel paints that I got at walmart. Rustoleum brand that I am mixing together and thinning down with acetone to run through my airbrush. Much more cost effective than rattle cans and I can control what colour I want to use.
Started of with a little bit of silver that I will sand through too when all is done for some scarring and damage.


Then some orange


And some black


And this is where it sits as of right today. My paint times are usually one coat a day, cause its taking a long time to dry but hopefully I only need one coat of each colour. Plus this weather in VA is odd, gotta love 80 degrees on the first day of winter!!!


Any feedback would be great or tips/pointers. But please be gentle, I am definitely a novice as this is only my fourth pep, but I am getting better lol. I am hoping to get this done by Tuesday night so I can give it to her Wednesday. All I have left is some flat black around the eye, edges of the mask, cheeks, and inside of the mask and I am done. Which I should be able to accomplish after work each day.
 
So I dipped out of work early today and started finishing touches on the mask. But ran into a huge snafu.
All masked up



But after painting in the flat black and started removing the tape, a huge disaster!!!!


Guess I should've sanded the silver just a little bit to avoid this :( Hopefully I'll be able to fix it tomorrow. Gonna spray the orange on and probably just brush the flat on so I don't have to tape over the orange and risk a repeat. As well as brushing it on will allow me to hopefully finish it in one night.
 
Just went in and touched up the orange, definitely need to thin down the colour some more as it clogs up my airbrush pretty quick lol and it takes a lot longer to cure than the thinned black I'm using. Hopefully it turns out okay.

 
Use the blue tape and before peeling it, use the x acto and trace the line of the design with it
 
riverswamp said:
nice how do you scale your pep files to fit your head I always seem to either make it two big or two small.
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The file I got from Black Kaos was already scaled to this size, but usually I use the measurement tool on Pep Designer to get the width correct with some guessing and luck involved lol. I've gotten lucky with my Iron Man Helmet and Fallout NCR builds so far.
made007 said:
Use the blue tape and before peeling it, use the x acto and trace the line of the design with it
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Oh thanks for the tip!!! Never would have thought of that. I used just cheap masking tape this time around cause I had to do a full shopping spree of resin, bondo, paint, etc. So funds were a little tight. Usually I use the legit automotive green tape from Shermin Williams, which is amazing. I stick it to my jeans a couple of times to make it easy to peel off to minimize the risk of damaging the work. This damage was caused by me getting too ahead of myself and not sanding the underlying layer. So it was too smooth for the paint to adhere.

Here is a couple pics of my other helmets I've made as well.
Need to finish the communicator part of the Fallout one. Had to throw it together real fast before Dragon*Con last August


And I need to redesign my hinge mechanism for my Iron Man helmet. I made it too small and its not opening/closing correctly as well as wrecking my paint. Which I also need to respray, it's a little too bright a shade of red...


This is what it was before I cut the face off. The colours were perfect!!!!!!
 
The blue tape i use its from pep boys and its automotive too
You should try it, ive used the green one too, but i like the blue better, hope to see an update soon :)
 
Okay so I just started finalizing the repairs from my mistake.
Broke out the really thin tape to make it easy to just brush on the flat black


It's still gotta a shiny look to it in this pic, waiting for the paint to dry so it will dull out


All I have left to do is fix one spot of the gloss black and finish painting the inside of the mask
 
Will You weather the paint? I'm not sure if you have already, looks really good and I'm sure your friend will love it
 
So I just finished the touch up work and the paint on the inside.






SriLanKING said:
Will You weather the paint? I'm not sure if you have already, looks really good and I'm sure your friend will love it
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I am going to do some minor sanding around the eye tomorrow morning in the scar area, nothing too heavy. If I make another one for myself I'll do a full weather effect if I can cause I'll have more experience and it won't be on as much of a time crunch.
 
BossierBob said:
So I just finished the touch up work and the paint on the inside.

I am going to do some minor sanding around the eye tomorrow morning in the scar area, nothing too heavy. If I make another one for myself I'll do a full weather effect if I can cause I'll have more experience and it won't be on as much of a time crunch.
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sounds really cool, and is that a gypsy danger I spy in the background?
 
SriLanKING said:
sounds really cool, and is that a gypsy danger I spy in the background?
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Thanks, and why yes that is...I FREAKING LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!!!! I have a Crimson Typhoon as well. Want to find a Striker for a reasonable price and I think Cherno and Coyote Tango are coming out some time next year. Unfortunately the joints in my Typhoon aren't that great and it fell over knocking off my Gypsy and broke of one of her legs. I was able to glue it back together but had to glue it so much she lost the ability to articulate her leg :(
 
So I just finished up the helmet. I'm pleased with how it turned out, if I had more time I could've made it a lot better. If I make another one I think I'll use a matte orange instead of a gloss and take more time with the bondo and detail work. I just took a single edge razor to the scarring to get through the orange, sanding would've taken too much off in areas I wanted to stay orange.









My phone's camera is making the pictures turn out a lot glossier for some reason and isn't getting all of the detail
 
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